Stephen Knapp - The Vedic Hinduism Prophecies: A New Look into the Future - The Eastern Answers to the Mysteries of Life

Dedicated to all of you
who are entering the spirit of the new millennium:
You are not afraid to investigate the possibilities
of what may be in the future,
yet remain steadfast in the courage to help bring in
light, love, and spiritual improvement for one and all.
You are the people forming the new species of humanity.

Copyright October, 1997, and March, 2011 by Stephen Knapp

Updated with additional information in March, 2011

ISBN-13: 978-1461002246

ISBN-10: 1461002249
E-Book ISBN: 978-1-4392-7897-0

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for brief quotations.

Cover photo: An image of Lord Shiva as Nataraja or Rudra doing the cosmic Tandiva Nitrya dance of destruction that brings the huge universal, multicolored clouds that play a part in causing the annihilation of the universe. Photo taken by Stephen Knapp.

Other books by the author:

1. The Secret Teachings of the Vedas: The Eastern Answers to the Mysteries of Life

2. The Universal Path to Enlightenment

3. The Vedic Prophecies: A New Look into the Future

4. How the Universe was Created and Our Purpose In It

5. Toward World Peace: Seeing the Unity Between Us All

6. Facing Death: Welcoming the Afterlife

7. The Key to Real Happiness

8. Proof of Vedic Cultures Global Existence

9. The Heart of Hinduism: The Eastern Path to Freedom, Enlightenment and Illumination

10. The Power of the Dharma: An Introduction to Hinduism and Vedic Culture

11. Vedic Culture: The Difference it can Make in Your Life

12. Reincarnation & Karma: How They Really Affect Us

13. The Eleventh Commandment: The Next Step for Social Spiritual Development

14. Seeing Spiritual India: A Guide to Temples, Holy Sites, Festivals and Traditions

15. Crimes Against India: And the Need to Protect its Ancient Vedic Tradition

16. Destined for Infinity, a spiritual adventure in the Himalayas

17. Yoga and Meditation: Their Real Purpose and How to Get Started

18. Avatars, Gods and Goddesses of Vedic Culture: Understanding the Characteristics, Powers and Positions of the Hindu Divinities

19. The Soul: Understanding Our Real Identity

20. Prayers, Mantras and Gayatris: A Collection for Insights, Protection, Spiritual Growth and Many Other Blessings

You can find out more about Stephen Knapp and his books, free ebooks, research, and numerous articles and photos, along with many other spiritual resources at:
http://www.Stephen-Knapp.com

Contents

Several years ago I got a very desperate call from one of the directors of the NBC Television Network program on Prophecies. They requested information on our Vedic tradition for their program. They were particularly interested in millennium prophecies. I explained to the director the difference between assorted types of psychics and clairvoyance in contrast to one who is connected with a transcendental heritage that is endowed with various siddhis (mystic powers), which includes prophecy. I explained further that all prophecies are somewhat secondary to the Vedic prophecies. The Vedas are the oldest scriptures in the world dealing with such subject matter. They are reliable and authentic because several of the prophecies in the Vedas are given to humanity by God or by his specially empowered, fully realized ambassadors. Not only do these ambassadors perceive past, present, and future, but they are distinctly enlivened in making or arranging for the future. Uniquely, I explained, the Vedas are not limited to this universe or planet. Given that many future events are happening or have happened already on other planets and will later manifest on this planet, it is very easy for such events to be accurately explained or described by the Vedas and by bona fide followers of the Vedic tradition. I sent them a volume of the Srimad-Bhagavatam ( Bhagavata Purana ) on predictions, written by the great teacher His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. Although authentic, it did not address sufficiently the millennium concerns in the way they desired. Furthermore, I could understand they needed more preparation to appreciate properly this gem I had sent them.

As I look back at this encounter, my regret is that I did not have this wonderful little book by my colleague, Stephen Knapp, to give them. Stephen has done a great service by painstakingly putting together such important prophecies from the Vedic tradition so that those who are familiar, as well as the novice, will reflect on world prophecy from the most sacred and authentic scriptures known to humankind. The Vedas give predictions that extend throughout all planets and all traditions.

According to Indian philosophy, there are 10 pramanas (different ways of knowing truth). They are:

1. Arsa a statement of an authoritative sage or Demigod.
2. Upamana comparison (something like something else).
3. Arthapatti presumption due to some other known fact.
4. Abhava absence (perceiving the objects absence).
5. Sambhava inclusion (a larger quantity includes a smaller).
6. Arthya tradition.
7. Cesta gesture or symbols (someone making a V sign or mudra gesture).
8. Pratyaksa direct perception.
9. Anumana inference (based on generalized experience derived by reason or deduction).
10. Shabda sound (revealed knowledge).

The last three are the only ones accepted by transcendental scholars and holy men like Jiva Goswami and Madhavacharya. Number ten, shabda pramana , revealed knowledge of the Vedas from superhuman sources, is the supreme superior method. In one of my books, Spiritual Warrior: Uncovering Spiritual Truths in Psychic Phenomena , I sometimes rely on anumana , which is inferior to shabda. In The Vedic Prophecies: A New Look into the Future , the author relies almost exclusively on shabda pramana for elucidating prophecy. What a wonderful offering! By this approach, Stephen gives the reader information about the prophecies that have already happened, the beginning of Kali-yuga (the last agethe age of quarrel), the changes during this age, the special age of enlightenment (the Golden Age) in Kali-yuga, the next incarnation of God, and the destruction of the world. Even the authors explanation of the Federal Reserve System helps the reader to get a clearer understanding of how some of the evil effects of Kali-yuga are already fully operational.

Let us investigate a few millennium concerns in this Kaliyuga. Nostradamus proclaimed a number of things that would happen around the turn of the century. Edgar Cayce proclaimed that Japan would slide into the Pacific Ocean, earthquakes would destroy California, coastal areas would flood, and New Lands would appear. It is predicted by psychics affiliated with Buddhism that Buddhism will last for only 2,500 years. Buddhism has been in existence for 2,500 years. Also, it has been predicted that Tibetan Buddhism will end some time after the thirteenth Dalai Lama has been dethroned. He has been dethroned. Psychic pyramidologists report that the turns and measurement of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh predicts the end of present civilization. The decline is said to have started in 1965. The Aztecs and Hopis predict the coming of a New Age within the next decade. Islam proclaims it will last until man sets foot on the moon. (Have we or have we not gone to the moon?) Gordon-Michael Scallion predicts serious earth changes and a new era for humankind in the next several years. At Fatima, the predictions proclaim holocaust, earth changes, and the dawning of a new era in the near future. From the Bible in Revelations, many things are described about the destruction of civilization.