End of the World ..? Is it very nigh?

End of the World…Is it very nigh???.

 

Hindu mythology does not believe in a single event of destruction of the world. The vedic scriptures (Chapter 8; Verse 17) describe about the four yugas, Satya-yuga (the golden age), Treta-yuga (Silver age), Dvapara-yuga (bronze age) and finally Kali-yuga (iron age of machines and quarrel). We are in the final age of Kali-yuga or “end of the world”. . However that is just like the end of winter. Just like the end of winter means the beginning of a new spring season, there will be another Satya-yuga or golden age and everything in the universe will be rejuvenated again. Thus, the hindus do not believe in the end of the world, but in the cyclical nature of time.

When we have a look into Christianity; Mathew: 24; Verse 3 states that when Jesus’ disciples asked about the end of the age; he responded by listing several warning signs. The first would be massive religious deception, including religious teachers who, while claiming to represent Him, would not follow His teachings but would deceive many through a counterfeit Christianity. He also said there would be many wars and other conflicts between nations and ethnic groups. He also spoke of famines, massive disease epidemics and earthquakes.

 

The Holy Quran share similar beliefs to Christianity. The lesser signs in which we can highlight widespread killing, earthquakes much more and the ten major signs such as The Dajjaal; the descent of ‘Eesa ibn Maryam (Jesus son of Mary); Ya’jooj and Ma’jooj (Gog and Magog) (Surah 18: 94,97, 21: 96).; three landslides, one in the east, one in the west and one in the Arabian Peninsula; the smoke; the rising of the sun from its place of setting; the Beast; and fire which will emerge from Yemen and drive the people to their place of gathering. These signs will appear one after another, and when the first of these signs appear, the others will come soon after. 

Scientists round the globe say the end of the world will be due to a variety of causes such global warming, asteroid, nuclear war, Pandemic threat, Robot ascension, overpopulation etc…and the list goes on….

I find myself perplexed correlating the above to the present scenarios.

Let me begin with the incredibly hot climate of the gulf regions, myself residing in Kuwait we are burning as inside an oven Oh..!Thanks to the air-condition technology else we would have been dead like the hundreds who passed away in Delhi due to the heat waves.

 I cease to open the news channels depicting the ceaseless inhumane attacks by ISIS, what not the shocking news of Jagendra Singh, a journalist who was burnt alive for a facebook post and many daunting incidents now and then. I wonder Who has given people in the earth to take the life of another person when he has not given it to them??? I would express it as heights of insanity. This is truly unacceptable.

We can’t forget the natural catastrophes that have been occurring with the recent ones such as drought emergency in Oregon, landslide in Colombia, earthquake in Nepal, heavy flooding in Oman etc.  The statement—“fire which will emerge from Yemen and drive the people to their place of gathering” reminds me of the Yemen – Saudi war. Also, the rising viral ailments such as Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in various countries like Korea, Saudi Arabia etc are to be noted.

 “Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”
(― Albert Einstein). This quote rings a bell into my heart.