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The Lord's Pastimes Out of Vṛndāvana
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aṣṭādaśākṣauhiṇī ko madaṁśair āste balaṁ durviṣahaṁ yadūnām
kiyān —what is this;  bhuvaḥ —of the earth;  ayam —this;  kṣapita —abated;  uru —very great;  bhāraḥ —burden;  yat —which;  droṇa —Droṇa;  bhīṣma —Bhīṣma;  arjuna —Arjuna;  bhīma —Bhīma;  mūlaiḥ —on the background;  aṣṭādaśa —eighteen;  akṣauhiṇī —phalanxes of military strength ( vide Bhāg.  1.16.34);  kaḥ —who;  madaṁśaiḥ —with My descendants;  āste —are still there;  balam —great strength;  durviṣaham —unbearable;  yadūnām —of the Yadu dynasty.
TRANSLATION
[After the end of the Battle of Kurukṣetra, the Lord said:] The abatement of the great burden of the earth has now been effected with the help of Droṇa, Bhīṣma, Arjuna and Bhīma. But what is this? There is still the great strength of the Yadu dynasty, born of Myself, which may be a more unbearable burden.
PURPORT
It is a wrong theory that due to an increase in population the world becomes overburdened and therefore there are wars and other annihilating processes. The earth is never overburdened. The heaviest mountains and oceans on the face of the earth hold more living entities than there are human beings, and they are not overburdened. If a census were taken of all the living beings on the surface of the earth, certainly it would be found that the number of humans is not even five percent of the total number of living beings. If the birth rate of human beings is increasing, then the birth rate of other living beings is increasing proportionately. The birth rate of lower animals—beasts, aquatics, birds, etc.—is far greater than that of human beings. There is an adequate arrangement for food for all the living beings all over the earth by the order of the Supreme Lord, and He can arrange more and more if there is actually a disproportionate increase of living beings.
Therefore, there is no question of an increase in population causing a burden. The earth became overburdened due to  dharma-glāni , or irregular discharge of the Lord's desire. The Lord appeared on the earth to curb the increase in miscreants, and not the increase in population, as is wrongly put forward by the mundane economist. When Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared, there had been a sufficient increase in miscreants who had violated the desire of the Lord. The material creation is meant for fulfilling the desire of the Lord, and His desire is that the conditioned souls who are unfit to enter into the kingdom of God have a chance to improve their conditions for entering. The entire process of cosmic arrangement is intended just to