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 facul
