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THE PROPHECY“yada yada hi dharmasya, glanir bhavati bharata, abhyuthanamadharmasya tada tmanam srjamyaham Paritranaya, sadhunamvinasaya ca duskrtam dharmasamsthapanarthaya,swambhawami yuge yuge” This is one of the most favorite quadrant or shloka in theBhagawat Gita. Lord Krishna is saying this to Arjuna who is thewarrior about to wage a war that will go down the annals of thehistory as the greatest war of all-- The kurukshetra war in theMahabharata. This event took place in the year 5000 BCapproximately. I shall explain this quadrant a little latter in thisarticle. 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 theyear 2012 as the Mayan calendar stops at that year. There is nofurther calculation after that year. An Indian scientist first detectsthe beginning of the end in India and then the story unfolds. It isall about the much talked about apocalypse where the earth isdestroyed by massive floods, earthquakes, and violent earthtremors and volcanoes. The perfect recipe for a global disasterwhich spares none and unleashes a trail of horror and gloomwhere mankind is destroyed, the earth changes its geography andeverything seems to be alien to anyone who might survive suchviolent and devastating force. The strange thing about thisimpending disaster is that it has been predicted in the Vedas, asdistant as 5000 years BC."Prophecy consists in knowledge and in the manifestation of whatis known. The knowledge must be supernatural and infused byGod because it concerns things beyond the natural power of created intelligence; and the knowledge must be manifestedeither by words or signs, because the gift of prophecy is given
 
primarily for the good of others, and hence needs to bemanifested. It is a Divine light by which God reveals thingsconcerning the unknown future and by which these things are insome way represented to the mind of the prophet, whose duty itis to manifest them to others...”"" The famous quadrant from the Bhagavad Gita,which I mentionedin the start of this article, the holy book of the Hindus, is the basisof their belief that God (Lord Vishnu) takes birth on the earth asan Avatar or incarnation and as a savior of the humanity in orderto cleanse the world of evil and re-establish Dharma or Law. Thetranslation of the Quadrant is as follows, "Whenever there isdecay 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 amborn from age to age." when the human society reaches thenadir of moral and cultural values, and lose all awareness of whatis right and wrong. The Vedic texts called Puranas tell the story of various Avatars of Vishnu, including his last avatar Buddha. Thetexts also prophesize of a future Avatar of Vishnu called Kalki whowill appear at the end of the present age called the Age of Kali(untruth) or Koli Yug. Hindus believe that time revolves in acyclical manner beginning with Satya Yug or the Age of Truth. Then comes Treta Yug, Dwapar Yug and finally Kali Yug. After thatcomes 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 religionsand it automatically implies the fact that there were other humancivilizations before the great flood, which is also mentioned in theHindu texts. In fact there has been such global disaster in thepast, like the great flood which has mention in practically allreligion in the world. There were civilization before the great
 
disaster and after the disaster the civilization again bloomed bythe 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 benigh, a portion of that Divine Being who exists of his own spiritualnature, in the character of Brahma, and who is the Beginning andthe End, and who comprehends all things shall descend upon theearth. He will be born as Kalki in the family of an eminentBrahmin, of Shambhala village, endowed with the eightsuperhuman faculties. By his irresistible might, He will destroy allthe barbarians and thieves, and all whose minds are devoted toiniquity. He will then re-establish righteousness upon earth; andthe minds of those who live at the end of the Kali age, shall beawakened, and shall be as pellucid as crystal. The men who arethus changed by virtue of that peculiar time, shall be as the seedsof human beings, and shall give birth to a race who shall followthe laws of the Kritya Age, the Age of Purity.In Vishnu Puran, one of the many Vedic scripture, Kalki is said toborn in a village called Shambhala. Some interpret this asindicating a village of the same name in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. I would not jump to that hasty conclusion. Thename may be allegorical. Buddhist scriptures also mention aplace of the same name, an invisible, hidden kingdom, which willbe visible during the end of the Kali Yug. Another interesting thingis the reference to God as "who is the Beginning and the End".Compare this with 22.13 of the Revelations : I am the Alpha andthe Omega, the Beginning and the End. The two religions,separated by time and space (Hinduism being much older thanChristianity) are thought to have little in common, you shall findsome amazing similarity of events mentioned in the Kalki Puranawith those of the Biblical Revelations.
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