THE PROPHECY
THE PROPHECY
“yada yada hi dharmasya, glanir bhavati bharata, abhyuthanam adharmasya tada tmanam srjamyaham Paritranaya, sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam dharmasamsthapanarthaya, swambhawami yuge yuge”
This is one of the most favorite quadrant or shloka in the Bhagawat Gita. Lord Krishna is saying this to Arjuna who is the warrior about to wage a war that will go down the annals of the history as the greatest war of all– The kurukshetra war in the Mahabharata. This event took place in the year 5000 BC approximately. I shall explain this quadrant a little latter in this article.
The urge to write this article came from the very successful film “2012”. As per the Mayan calendar the end of the earth is in the year 2012 as the Mayan calendar stops at that year. There is no further calculation after that year. An Indian scientist first detects the beginning of the end in India and then the story unfolds. It is all about the much talked about apocalypse where the earth is destroyed by massive floods, earthquakes, and violent earth tremors and volcanoes. The perfect recipe for a global disaster which spares none and unleashes a trail of horror and gloom where mankind is destroyed, the earth changes its geography and everything seems to be alien to anyone who might survive such violent and devastating force. The strange thing about this impending disaster is that it has been predicted in the Vedas, as distant as 5000 years BC.
“Prophecy consists in knowledge and in the manifestation of what is known. The knowledge must be supernatural and infused by God because it concerns things beyond the natural power of created intelligence; and the knowledge must be manifested either by words or signs, because the gift of prophecy is given primarily for the good of others, and hence needs to be manifested. It is a Divine light by which God reveals things concerning the unknown future and by which these things are in some way represented to the mind of the prophet, whose duty it is to manifest them to others…”
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The famous quadrant from the Bhagavad Gita,which I mentioned in the start of this article, the holy book of the Hindus, is the basis of their belief that God (Lord Vishnu) takes birth on the earth as an Avatar or incarnation and as a savior of the humanity in order to cleanse the world of evil and re-establish Dharma or Law. The translation of the Quadrant is as follows, “Whenever there is decay of righteousness… and there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I Myself come forth… for the destruction of evil-doers, for the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age.” when the human society reaches the nadir of moral and cultural values, and lose all awareness of what is right and wrong. The Vedic texts called Puranas tell the story of various Avatars of Vishnu, including his last avatar Buddha. The texts also prophesize of a future Avatar of Vishnu called Kalki who will appear at the end of the present age called the Age of Kali (untruth) or Koli Yug. Hindus believe that time revolves in a cyclical manner beginning with Satya Yug or the Age of Truth. Then comes Treta Yug, Dwapar Yug and finally Kali Yug. After that comes annihilation and re-initiation of the Satya Yug or Kritya Yug – the age of purity. Thus, the Hindus do not believe in the End of the World but in the cyclical nature of Time. The perspective of the Hindu religion is, thus, much wider than the Semitic religions and it automatically implies the fact that there were other human civilizations before the great flood, which is also mentioned in the Hindu texts. In fact there has been such global disaster in the past, like the great flood which has mention in practically all religion in the world. There were civilization before the great disaster and after the disaster the civilization again bloomed by the help of selected few ,( as in the case of Noah or in the case of manu ).
When the practices taught by the Vedas and the institutes of law, shall nearly have ceased, and the close of the Koli age shall be nigh, a portion of that Divine Being who exists of his own spiritual nature, in the character of Brahma, and who is the Beginning and the End, and who comprehends all things shall descend upon the earth. He will be born as Kalki in the family of an eminent Brahmin, of Shambhala village, endowed with the eight superhuman faculties. By his irresistible might, He will destroy all the barbarians and thieves, and all whose minds are devoted to iniquity. He will then re-establish righteousness upon earth; and the minds of those who live at the end of the Kali age, shall be awakened, and shall be as pellucid as crystal. The men who are thus changed by virtue of that peculiar time, shall be as the seeds of human beings, and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the Kritya Age, the Age of Purity.
In Vishnu Puran, one of the many Vedic scripture, Kalki is said to born in a village called Shambhala. Some interpret this as indicating a village of the same name in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. I would not jump to that hasty conclusion. The name may be allegorical. Buddhist scriptures also mention a place of the same name, an invisible, hidden kingdom, which will be visible during the end of the Kali Yug. Another interesting thing is the reference to God as “who is the Beginning and the End”. Compare this with 22.13 of the Revelations : I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. The two religions, separated by time and space (Hinduism being much older than Christianity) are thought to have little in common, you shall find some amazing similarity of events mentioned in the Kalki Purana with those of the Biblical Revelations.
Kalki is born to a man named Vishnujasha and a woman named Sumati in the Hindu month of Baisakha, which starts from 14th or 15th April and lasts till 14th or 15th May. So, Kalki will be born 12 days from the full moon day (after 14th/15th April), which can be anytime between 26th April to 15th May. I[2]. V.31 also says that he had three elder brothers. According to I[2] V.32, the King of the land where Kalki is born is named Vishakhjupa. As per I[2] V.4, the mission of Kalki’s life is to destroy Koli – the equivalent of the Anti-Christ (in whose name the present age is named). Koli signifies a person as well as the vices which are peculiar to this age. As per I[3], V.25 Kalki was given a white horse, which he rode during his conquests all over the world. In fact Kalki is always symbolized as riding a white horse. Compare this with the Revelations : In 19:11 of the Revelation “I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.”
The Hindus have a strong belief in “Karma”. It is karma which determines the life in the future. Many a times we see innocent children made to beg in the streets of India. I have asked this question to myself as to why these innocents have to suffer so much. The answer I got was from my guru Maa Shree where she told me that it is the “prarabdh” that makes that child bear this terrible fate. Prarabdh is the accumulated karma in one’s life time. Whatever we do in this life time is accounted for and a ledger folio is prepared in the house of justice of the god. Good deeds are handsomely rewarded in the same birth. If the person has been saintly in his action and words and has always been virtuous he is relieved of another human birth and this is called as the “moksha”. But if the deeds that he does is villainous in nature, cruel, immoral and unjust then he accumulates punishment which is so much so that one birth is not enough. He has to be born as a human again and go through the hell of being a beggar, or a criminal jailed for life or to a life of extreme hardship. This is the concept of Karma among the Hindus. This concept is individualistic as well as collective and the Prophecy of the impending apocalypse is linked to this concept of karma.
As is the karma performed by all human beings world over… as per the doctrine of mass karma whatever awaits mankind results from our karma of the past. In the system of God there is no disorder. In the house of God there are no free lunches. Everything results from law of karma that can never err! There is no place for miracles in the house of God… nor is anything premeditated! If the mankind is doomed to failure in the coming future… if the mankind fears the coming of the worst in year 2012… The whole mankind at large is responsible for it. We as masses have killed true essence of life… the air we breathe… water we drink… Earth will live on (the sacred mother earth)… all have been polluted beyond repair! In the circumstances, a renaissance… a total upheaval is the only solution. One amongst us shall don the mantle of a messiah… an Avatar (God manifest in human form) to cleanse the society of its ills
According to Hindu cosmology, the universe is cyclical, passing through four world ages. Each yuga, as they are called, is shorter and less pleasant than the previous epoch due to the degeneration of morality. Currently we are in the last, the Kala Yuga, in which dharma (correct behavior), is only one-fourth of its beginning quality. At its end, the Kali yuga, religion will disintegrate and society will become more secular. When the world becomes hopelessly
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