| The present period of change of a millennium is also a special juncture of great transition. Prophecies of the seers of the ancient and the modern times share common views about the critical circumstances before the dawn of a new era. The world today is apparently passing through the most arduous and challenging phase of crises and calamities. Under the threats of nuclear and star wars, the existence of life on the earth seems to be lying at an edge of extinction today. The possibilities of brighter era appear to be realizable by nothing less than a miracle. Perhaps these are the moments for which Lord Krishna has assured in the holy Geeta as - "Age after age, I come into being, to protect the pious life along the righteous path of truth and to devastate the evil tendencies, terrors and disorders."
The ancient Indian scriptures on Astrology describe the present era - from 1850 A.D. to 2000 A.D. approximately - as the period of great change, of transition from Kaliyug (an era of moral decline and darkness of ignorance and evil influences) to Satyug (an era of divine values and culmination of human dignity). The Kaliyug is in its last phase at present and the dawn of Satyug is in the offing. That is why the present time is also referred as the yug sandhi kala - junction of two eras.
Although some fundamentalists and orthodox religious masters consider that the beginning of Satyug is still away by more than several million years, this claim appears to be baseless in view of the scientifically justified rational arguments and authentic references cited by Gurudeva Shriram Sharma Acharya in the present volume. Excerpts from the scriptures ranging from - Bhavishya Purana, Harivansha Puran to Shrimad Bhagawat and Geeta are also given here along with the proofs on correct methods of computation of planetary time according to the ancient Indian Science of Astrology.
The author, Gurudev Shriram Sharma has described the past twenty to twenty to twenty-five years (1980 to 2005 A.D. approximately) of yug sandhi as the anti-climax of the darkness of Kaliyug which is ought to end with the glow of the descent of Satyug. This period has and will witness severe destruction, disorder, anarchy, natural calamities, explosive situations, terror, hunger, epidemics, large scale disturbance and decline of human values. Apart from the poisonous pollution of the atmosphere and disruption of the ecosystem, the unprecedented occurrences of tragic incidents, steep rise in aggressive tendencies, massacres, rapes, psychological disorders, frequency of suicides, ever new diseases. etc have also dangerously polluted the environment of life.
Today, every body seems to be somewhat suspicious about his own health and survival. But, this all round ’threat’ to happy and peaceful life on the earth also appears to be a part of the ’warnings’ of mother Nature and its divine creator to mankind. The attacks of sufferings and agonies are bound to induce the sentiments of compassion and force the comfort-hungry minds to rectify their selfish attitude and change the way of life according to the crying call of humanity. This is also a time of final and decisive struggle between the divine and the devil powers. It is a testing time for the saintly ideologies divine tendencies. Their miraculous strength is going to arouse and manifest itself on multiple fronts during this phase of emergency.
The remarkable progress of scientific and technological advancement has virtually conquered the nature and made today’s man ’omnipotent’ in terms of materialistic wealth and power. The ultra fast air-crafts and speedy automobiles on the one hand, and rapid communication links through man-made satellite networks have shrunk the peripheries of the world and brought the people across the globe in closed contact. Howbeit, the blind race for technological innovations and luxury oriented and commercialized development has led to excessive exploitation of the natural resources and has disturbed the natural harmony of the ecosystem too. The consumerization based and power-hungry policies of the so called rational thinkers have converted the boons of science into curses in more than one respect... |
