| by Victor
Cherubim
( December 19,
2012, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) According to Mayan prophecy the world will
end on December 21, 2012. The exact time as we know or think we know of the
prophecy, is that events will occur at exactly 11.11 GMT on 21.12.2012. This
day marks the apocalyptic end of the current 5125 year of the Mayan calendar.
It is on everyone’s mind, just days before you expect to be unwrapping your
Christmas presents. Will the world be here this Christmas?
While this is a
joke to some and a mystery to others, there is a core of people who are truly
concerned. Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, says the “end of the world
is coming” and she will be there to fight for her citizens to the very end.
There is also panic stations in parts of Russia among some. Others maintain
this is “manufactured fantasy” to divert attention from possibly the testing of
a nuclear device in the deserts of South West U.S.
The Mayans
stated that one of their great cycles is supposed to end and another begin. Rather
than chasing death, they were seeking re-birth –an awakening of the kundalini
or self realisation
for humanity.
Whatever the
Mayan thought, there is a sudden interest in refining escape routes, honing
survival skills. One way tickets to places rumoured to be the safe havens from
the purging flames, is of interest. According to science fiction, a UFO is
supposedly lying dormant in a mountain in the village of Pic de Bugarach, in
Southern France. Aliens, we are told, will emerge from their “spaceship” and
pluck “believers” to safety. So we are
told this village of just 176 people, is one destination among “believers” who
would prefer not to die, but to escape on a one way ticket, out of this world. If
we doubt this, please note many others are crowding on flights to destinations
in Mayan civilisation; in Mexico, and Central America where the apocalypse has
turned into an excuse to party and celebrate the beginning of a new epoch in
the native Mayan culture.
The Maya were not
the only people to predict the end of the world. The Incas and the Egyptians
too were great astronomers and they too made some canny predictions. The fear is that there
could well be “a massive pole shift caused by the galactic alignment between the centre of
the galaxy and the Sun, that may well cause massive earth tremors, volcanoes
and tsunamis.”
A NASA Astro biologist
has stated that:
"the world will
not end on 21.12.12. Our planet has been getting along for more than 4 billion
years and no credible scientist knows of any such threat.”
David Morrison
reveals, that solar flares could occur but they could cause only interruption
of satellite communication, so beware those smart phone users.
How we see the
future in the past has been a perennial quest of mankind? From Outer Space to Inner
Space, nothing provokes nostalgia like the projected futures from our past.
Science fiction
reminds us “of the uncanniness of aliens, clones and robots; the impeccable
mechanisms of surveillance states, the revenge of mutated organisms and wrecked
eco-systems.”
There is not
much one can do to prepare for the end of the world, but that is not for the
Bible belt preachers scouting round our villages trying to proselytise.
However, Muslims and other Christian scholars have rejected the unjustifiable
doomsday, but believe in a Day of Judgment.
If you really believe the world is going to
end then you won’t need money to buy Christmas gifts. What who wants that?
We in Sri Lanka
can prepare for the end of the world, by asking ourselves:
“What mark do we wish to leave on the world
before we go? What did we come to this earth to accomplish?”
We can take
recourse in the Dharma words: “Adinnanda veramani sikkhapadan samadiyami.”
Faith begins
where reason ends.
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