Bhagavat Dharma Samaj

While we were in the USA in 2009 one of our American disciples in California asked us about an Indian person in Hawaii who predicts dooms day in 2012. We didn’t know this prediction was widely known, but answered him quoting the ancient Vedic scriptures. Then after hearing this same prediction from others we deemed it necessary to make our followers aware of our understanding of how we view the future.

The creator of the universe is the Supreme Lord and He wrote books called the Vedic scriptures, and in them the future of the universe is described. Just as an inventor of a machine supplies instructions regarding the intricacies of their invention explaining everything about the machine so an operator knows how it functions, similarly when the Supreme Lord created this universe He wrote the scriptures containing all information required about the universe and how to live in it.

Recently we also came across an article stating the destruction of the world in 2012. The article cited the Mayan civilization as the source of the information and it states in 2012 the entire present civilization, including the sun will be destroyed and an ice age will begin. Scientists, geologists, astronomers, thinkers and well known writers also speculate that if mankind continues polluting the atmosphere and thus depleting the ozone layer the earth will become warmer causing the glaciers to melt, eventually inundating the entire earth and also dormant volcanoes will erupt thus ending civilization as we know it on December 12, 2012.

Followers of Vedic civilization don’t take faith in such predictions, but heed austere great seers, sages and saintly people who’ve realized everything past, present and future to be known through their purity and faith in the Lord. They saw everything that would take place in minute detail; and with great thought and care calculated the duration of each of the four ages and the exact time of the annihilation. These great sages directly communicated with the Supreme Lord, which is how everything stated in their writings in the ancient scriptures of India has happened up till now and we have faith that their predictions will happen in the future as well. As followers of the ancient Vedas we’re not surprised or the least bit afraid of what other predictors state lies in our future, because we have faith the Vedas will again hold true what lies before us. Per the ancient Vedic scriptures and astrological evidence no inundation is foretold in the foreseeable future.

According to the ancient scriptures the duration of the first age, Satyayuga, was 1,728,000 years and the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna incarnated as the Fish, Turtle, Boar and Nrsimha incarnations in that age. The second age, Trediyuga, lasted 1,296,000 years and Lord Krsna incarnated as Vamana, Parasurama and Lord Rama in that age. The third age, Dwaparayuga, lasted 864,000 years and Lord Krsna Himself came with His Lord Balaram incarnation. The present age is called Kaliyuga and began 5,113 years ago and lasts 432,000 years, leaving 426,887 years. The ancient scriptures mention two incarnations in this age. If we divide the age of Kaliyuga by four, thus deducing we are in the first quarter of the age and as of now only one incarnation has come named Lord Budda, and the Lord will come only once more at the end of Kaliyuga as Kalki, with no mention of inundation or annihilation before Kalki in the ancient scriptures, in our view anyone stating an inundation will occur in 2012 is pure speculation.

As of now, February 15, 2010 of the Gregorian calendar, there’s about thirty days left in the 2066 Vedic calendar year and on April 03, 2011 the 2067 Vedic calendar ends. Thus, per Vedic astrology, January 01, 2012 falls on a Sunday on the eighth day of the light part of the month of Pausa in the Vedic calendar year of 2068 and 2068 ends on March 22, 2012 of the Gregorian calendar. Thus 82 days of the 2068 Vedic calendar year is left after January 1, 2012 of the Gregorian calendar. Vedic calculation is based on great sages who directly communicated with the Supreme Lord and His assistants, the demigods in Heaven. In respect to Vedic calculation of the Lagna (exact time) of when January 01, 2012 begins, there is no sign of the destruction of civilization per Vedic calculation. The Vedic calendar year of 2068 is called Krodhi, meaning tension and anger, indicating there may be disparity, violence and disagreement among rulers and people due to financial or other loss, but there is no indication of destruction of the planet. There may be some untimely fall of governments and/or changes of/in governments, but no destruction of the planet is indicated. The king of the Vedic year 2068 is the Moon, and his minister/secretary will be Jupiter, which indicates to the betterment of people. And the remaining Gregorian calendar year of 2012 will pass during the Vedic calendar year 2069, and will be nice because its king will be Venus and he will act as his own secretary and because Venus is a friendly and pious planet there is no chance of destruction. But rather more people will lean towards spirituality and live a prosperous and happy life. The name of that year is Visvavasu, indicating there may be disagreement between rulers and there may be some natural catastrophes like cyclones, earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions, but nothing as catastrophic as total annihilation will take place. The whole world will run as it is now running and we will enter 2013 without great difficulty and the world will carry on running normally. There is no need to panic.

Eastern and Western philosophies disagree with each other about the problems of birth, death, karma, reincarnation, good and evil, the nature of the soul, existence of God, free will, spiritual practice and liberation. when Western philosophers discuss these topics they base their theory on their speculation, that is why their conclusion is impersonalistic.
Eastern philosophers base their knowledge on the Vedic scriptures which is why their conclusion is personalistic. Even though the thinking process is the legitimate function of the mind, still mental speculation is compared to milk touched by the lips of a poisonous serpent. Because speculation on the supramandane subject is said to be a proud attempt by using God’s given talents. Whereas knowledge based on the Vedic scriptures is compared to pure uncontaminated milk, because the faculties of thinking through scriptural evidence keeps one internally humble and externally sober. There is no place in the Vedic scriptures for imagination, myth or speculation, whereas Western philosophy differs.
For example, Vedic philosophy states that the soul is ever existent, therefore it is immortal. Our present hardships are due to our past misdeeds (karma) and our present actions will be experienced in a future life. The meritorious person reaches heaven and enjoys there for some time and then returns to this world when his merits expire. But if someone embraces the proper spiritual life seriously, then he enters the Kingdom of God or the Spiritual World where suffering ends forever. Whereas Western scholars deny this philosophy and claim the soul was created at one point and exist only for one lifetime on Earth, and after death it is condemned eternally or goes to heaven forever. Therefore Western philosophy dismisses reincarnation. Even though many people are seen crippled, blind, sick or poor from birth, whereas others are born healthy and rich, still western philosophers envision the soul living for only one lifetime and having no karmic reaction.
The Vedic perspective argues that if the soul lives for only one lifetime and there is no reincarnation, then where is the room for Supreme Justice? If the soul is eternally dammed or eternally saved, then where is the meaning to fortunate or unfortunate while alive? Why is one person in a family educated, pious, opulent and happy, whereas another member from the same family becomes impious, ignorant, criminal, poor or deformed? Why…? Western philosophers are unable to answer such basic questions and dismiss them as irrelevant. But Vedic philosophers have answers to every question because their knowledge is base on the perfect authority, Lord Sri Krsna.
Although human intellect is developer in art, science, music, philosophy, physics, psychology, economics, chemistry, and politics as well as many other important fields, still it falls short in attaining perfection of life. One has to adopt a cultural philosophy to attain human perfection. The philosophy which answers the questions of why we are here, why undesired things are imposed upon us, why do we have to die, where will we go after death, who is God, what does He looks like and where does He live ? etc. is called cultural philosophy. In other words realizing our constitutional position and our relationship with God is said to be the perfection of human life. Eating, sleeping, mating and defending propensities are equally found among both animals and human beings. The difference between human beings and animals is that animals are not responsible for their present deeds and cannot understand the science of God, whereas human beings can. Therefore a human being is advised to try to understand the science beyond life. The answer to where he has come from and where he will go after death is called the science beyond life. If one does not do so, then a careful consideration to reform one’s life is recommended. The Vedic scripture states:
ahara nidra bhaya maithunam ca
samanyam etat pasubhir naranam
dharmo hi eko adhika viseso
dharmena hinah pasu hi samana
“The propensity to eat, sleep, mate and defend are equal in animals and human beings. Only one extra thing is rewarded to humans, that is to establish their relationship with God. In other words the only difference between human beings and animals is that human beings can be trained in the science of spirituality, whereas animals cannot. If any human being does not attempt to learn about spiritual life, he is considered to be equal to an animal.”

You will find every detail this ancient and secret Vedic science of satisfying the soul in the Bhagavad Gita.

Hari Om Tat Sat

Mahamandaleshwar Mahant Sri Krsna Balaram Swami

Everyone in this world desires that they and their family enjoy happiness, prosperity and good health.  That is why everyone is working  so hard to gather and  secure everything needed to be happy. The problem is it’s just not that simple.

No matter how it appears on the surface, everyone discovers that once they accumulate all of these items that were promised as the path to happiness, security and well being, material nature reminds us of its  uncertainty in the form of mental tensions, diseases, crime, wars, famine, earthquakes, global warming, financial meltdowns,  and corruption beyond scale in every category of business government and politics, worldwide.

All of this is going on despite enormous preventive efforts and seemingly foolproof measures of risk management. This why everyone is so uneasy and has some level of anxiety and uncertainty about their current and future prospects of happiness.

Western ideology has taught and encouraged everyone about self reliance and individualism,  ”do your own thing,”  ” I’m ok you’re ok”.  In contrast, the Vedic view from India differs with such relativistic thinking because the individualistic mind and the ascendance of reasons are equipped with four fundamental defects.

There is no one, except God and His pure devotee, who is free from these four defects i.e. *the propensity to make mistakes, having imperfect senses, propensity to be illusioned and the propensity to cheat others. Due to these imperfections the case for independent thinking, assumptions, speculations, self concocted religions are not accepted in the Vedic scriptures.

Vedic scriptures are not meaningless i.e. every word stated in the Vedic scriptures has its meaning because they are the direct words of the Supreme Lord Himself. The Supreme Lord is free from the above defects and the Vedic scriptures are spoken by Him which is why whatever they state should be  should be accepted as perfect.

There are many philosophers in the world who speculate while making their research about God, that is why they remain bereft of understanding anything about God. Not only this, the Vedic scriptures state, tarko’pratistha, naisa tarkena matir apaneya etc.  Meaning that God cannot be understood through logic or arguments, speculation or material scientific  research.  If someone wants to understand God then they must follow scriptural authority, then God is within reach and is understood easily and quickly.

For example, there is a legendary physics research facility outside of Chicago who is in a worldwide race to be the first to discover the elusive Higgs boson, also known as “the God particle”  One of the theorist says that without the God particles “atoms would have no integrity, so there would be no chemical bonding, no stable structures and no liquids or solids”

Looking for the God particle

This is a global effort costing 10′s of billions of dollars and they are trying to achieve this through the material science of particle accelerators or atom smashers,  by which they attempt to deconstruct matter into its most basic components. By this material science physicist have identified five particles  that carry force, they call bosons. The evasive Higgs is the only boson that has never been observed and scientist believe that it could contain the very essence, or at least the mechanism of existence itself, a way to understand how matter becomes and remains matter. In short, they are trying to replicate their other speculative theory called the Big Bang, which unbelievably, is being taught as though it is proven fact throughout our modern educational system.

This of course will not be possible with any amount or research because spirit cannot be measured or observed with material instruments. One cannot understand God via their material senses, He can only be understood when He reveals Himself through the proper practice of spiritual life.

The Vedic philosophy is a happy marriage between philosophy and religion, that is why following only one of them is forbidden in Vedic civilization. In other words, following religion without its counterpart, the rich and thorough philosophy, makes one become a fanatic, and following only the philosophy and not its counterpart, its proper rules, ceremonies, etc. (religion), makes one become sentimental or a speculator. That is why both — religion and philosophy–must be synthesized while following spiritual life then the correct result will surely follow.