Will World End 2012???

There is a great deal of propaganda that something dramatic will happen in 2012 and maybe the world will end...According Hinduism?

We have information from the Vedic scriptures about the nature of this material world. Very extensive information is given about the cycles this world goes through over and over again. It is not that we are in uncharted territory. These cycles repeat, just like every year we have the four seasons. The cycle of the seasons repeats over and over again. Similarly the cycle of the four ages or yugas also repeats over and over again. As we know each of the seasons will last for three months and then the next season will start these four ages or yugas also repeat in a very systematic way.

There are four yugas, Satya-yuga - the golden age, lasting 1,728,000 years; Treta-yuga - the silver age, lasting 1,296,000 years; Dvapara-yuga - the bronze age, lasting 864,000 years; and finally Kali-yuga - the iron age of machines and quarrel, lasting 432,000 years.

We are in the final age, Kali-yuga. So in one sense you could call the end of Kali-yuga the “end of the world.” But actually Kali-yuga is no more the end of the world than winter is the end of the seasons. After the winter there will be another spring. At the end of winter everything looks dead. But with the sunshine of spring everything becomes rejuvenated and new life springs up all over the planet. So at the end of this Kali-yuga everything will be very baron and devastated. 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.

There will be some big devastation at the end of the Kali-yuga. But we have just started the Kali-yuga. This age will last for 432,000 years and so far we have only passed 5,000 years of it. So that means that Kali-yuga still has another 427,000 years to run... So please be assured that the world is not going to end in the year 2012... Believe it or not the world will still be going on in the year 429,000. Around this time the current Kali-yuga will end and there will be some devastation and a renewal which will usher in a new Satya-yuga...

So this claim that the “end of the world” is coming in 2012 is complete nonsense. There is no end to the material world. Although everything here in this world -- except the living entities (the spirit souls, the atmas) -- including the planet and the universe itself, is ultimately a temporary manifestation. Everything has a time of creation and will have a time of destruction.

However, in the bigger picture, the destruction is not actually a destruction. It is simply an exercise in the conservation of energy.Einstein came up with the proposition that both energy and matter cannot be destroyed. They can only be transformed from one form to another. This is the correct understanding.

There is a time when the universe will be destroyed. The universe will exist for one thousand catur-yuga cycles. That is one thousand cycles of the four ages [Satya-yuga, Treta-yuga, Dvapara-yuga and Kali-yuga]. Each cycle of four yugas takes 4,300,000 years. Therefore the “life” of the universe is 4,300,000,000 years or 4.3 billion years. We have currently passed through approximately half of that time. So the universe is about 2.15 billion years old at the moment. So in another 2.15 billion years the whole material world -- not just our universe -- the entire material creation of an unlimited number of universes, will all be destroyed.

However, as I mentioned before, this is not actually a “destruction” but a conservation of matter and energy. All the matter which forms the material elements in the universe will be conserved in the “mahat-tattva.” This means the “unmanifested material energy.” The material world has two possible states. Manifest and unmanifest. Currently it is manifest and we are here in the material world. But after the completion of approximately 2.15 billion years there will really be a complete and total devastation of the whole material existence. That is the ultimate “end of the world” that all the doomsday people are waiting for. I think that devastation will satisfy them. At that time the whole material existence will be “destroyed” and will become unmanifested for another one thousand catur-yuga cycles.

This means for 4.3 billion years there will be no manifest material world. Everything will be conserved, the matter will be conserved within themahat-tattva and the living entities will all enter into the body of Maha Visnu and will exist there in a state of suspension.

Although the whole material creation will be “destroyed” in about 2.15 billion years time, in reality nothing will actually be destroyed. The matter will be conserved in the mahat-tattva and the living entries will simply sleep for 4.3 billion years in the body of Maha-Visnu. This is not liberation for the living entities. They just sleep. And when the 4.3 billion years is finished the material world will become manifest again and all the same living entities will enter it again and again resume their activities where they left off 4.3 billion years ago.

And it will be the same thing again. There will be the same grass, trees, donkeys, horses, elephants, people... The same sort of planets and sun and moon will be constructed, the whole thing will be again constructed in the same way.

It is just like every year it is hot in summer and cold in winter. There are no surprises.

The new material world will be much the same as the old one because the material world is created out of the desires of the living entities. It will be the same living entities entering the “new world” who left this world. So they will bring into the “new world” the same desires they left this world with. So they will simply continue in the “new world” where they left off in this world. After sleeping for 4.3 billion years.

There are also smaller devastations that happen periodically, but these only happen at the end of the catur-yuga cycles, so if the doomsday people really want a date that something may happen on then let them use the date of the end of this Kali-yuga, something around 429,000, something quite dramatic will happen then for sure. To get the exact date you will need to consult an astrologer. Until then this world will go on, and on, and on, and on

It will get worse of course. That is the nature of time. In the end it will be very bad. But it will go on, and on and on. There will be no “end of the world” until some time around 429,000 and that is, as I said, not really the end of the world. That is a time of renewal. A transition from the dark age of Kali to a new golden age of spiritual enlightenment.

The material world will never end. There will always be spirit souls like us who rebel against our natural position of rendering service to God. So Krishna mercifully creates this material playground for us. Here we can try to “play god.” Here we can try to enjoy separately from God. But this world is constructed in such a way that all our attempts to enjoy separately from God will end in frustration.

After many, many, many births in the material world, and many, many frustrated lives of suffering, an intelligent man comes to the conclusion that there is no happiness in the material world and decides to go back home, back to Godhead.

There is another world, a spiritual world. That is the place we are all hankering for. In the spiritual world we have a spiritual body which is eternally youthful, full of knowledge and full of bliss. That is our natural position.

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Hinduism Is The World's Oldest Religion:

The Original Name Of Hinduism Is Sanatana Dharma Or Righteousness Forever.Hinduism has its origins in such remote past that it cannot be traced to any one individual. Some scholars believe that Hinduism must have existed even in circa 10000 B.C. and that the earliest of the Hindu scriptures – The Rig Veda – was composed well before 6500 B.C. The word "Hinduism" is not to be found anywhere in the scriptures, and the term "Hindu" was introduced by foreigners(Invading Persians in 6th Century) who referred to people living across the River Indus or Sindhu, in the north of India.Hinduism is formed of diverse traditions and has no single founder or prophet

What are the key Hindu scriptures?

The basic scriptures of Hinduism, which is collectively referred to as "Shastras", are essentially a collection of spiritual laws discovered by different saints and sages at different points in its long history. The Two types of sacred writings comprise the Hindu scriptures: "Shruti" (heard) and "Smriti" (memorized). They were passed on from generation to generation orally for centuries before they were written down mostly in the Sanskrit language. The major and most popular Hindu texts include the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads,Vedas,puranas and the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata

ill further try to put some data regarding various all Holy Scriptures in feature Post.

Concept Of God In Hinduism:

All Abhrahmic religions have a central figure head of Prophets,who acted as Messengers of God.teaching about his message of spirtuality.They offer exclusive Salvation to believers(eternal heaven) And Hell To Non-belivers.

In general Hinduism considers God not just as the Supreme All-powerful Gigantic One, Who commands the humanity to tread the way He/She/It says, but also a personal God Whom the individual can worship out of love and not necessarily out of fear ! The fear brings one only upto certain point and beyond that it repels, but love takes through to the point. Devotion or bhakti as often referred to is a very key concept in Hinduism, even for the philosophically inclined ones. While the shashtras - be it vedas, Agamas, purANas - describe the Glory of God, one finds abundance of stotras that praise the God in love

One May Not Workship Bhrama,Vishnu,Shiva in Greed of Heaven or in Fear Of Heaven.Any One One be it athiest,Muslim,Christian is a Hindu if he leads a Sinless life.Any Person with good Karma can be in Heaven unlike other religions where their are granted heaven only belivers of that Religion

Hinduism offers Moksha to all,belivers/non-belivers/atheist every living being on earth etc.Moksha is Oneness of Soul with supreme soul,which is on higher pane then pleasures of Heaven.A soul is always in continous Journey state of birth,death and rebirth till it redeems Karma and achieves Moksha.all phases of birth/death/rebirth heaven and hell are temporary phases in Journey of Soul Towards Supreme being till one reaches Moksha.

In Simple Moksha Is Said To be redemption from Cycle of Rebirths.

Moksha can be achieved by 1 of 3 options of

1.Bhakti yoga

2.Karma yoga

3.Gyana Yoga.

Moksha is gaurenteed to all Souls who redeem thier Karma in a birth. Hinduism has never developed the theory of a jealous God or exclusive salvation.concept of God in Hinduism is full of love,compassion,mercifulness and forgiveness(just as parents) so no eternal hell for any soul..only journey till Moksha

Hindusim Propogates Universal Botherhood and Peace.Thats the reason u find Hindus Tolerant towards other religions.

1. Vasudeva Kutumbum(whole world is 1 big family ..thus universal brotherhood)

2. Sarve Janah Sukhino Bhavantu.(Let the whole world have peace and prosperity and content)

3. Om Shanti Shanti Shanti.(eternal peace for every living bieng)

Karma:Karma is a concept in Hinduism which explains causality through a system where beneficial effects are derived from past beneficial actions and harmful effects from past harmful actions, creating a system of actions and reactions throughout a soul's reincarnated lives forming a cycle of rebirth. The causality is said to be applicable not only to the material world but also to our thoughts, words, actions and actions that other do under our instructions. When the cycle of rebirth comes to an end, a person is said to have attained moksha, or salvation from samsara.