Prophecies
Below is a letter on prophecies concerning the coming of Bhagavan.
20/03/07
Everyone,
Hello! How are you? Let us discuss some prophecies of the coming of Bhagavan to this world.
Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna said that a hundred years after his mahasamadhi (the liberation of an enlightened soul upon death), his spirit would return to this world. A hundred years after his death, that spirit entered the mind of Bhagavan. The consequence of the descent of that spirit into the mind of a human is the realisation of mahabhava. The day that that happened, Bhagavan became Bhagavan.
Ramakrishna said that there would be two proofs. One was that he would come from a poor brahmin family, and Bhagavan was born in a poor brahmin family. Another was that the next avatar would not know of his divinity. If we read the lives of other avatars, we see that even before their mahabhavas, there were clear signs of some divinity. For example Ramakrishna, when he was at school one day, was playing the part of Shiva in a school play. He went onto the stage, then stopped moving. He remained stood motionless on the stage. Through having his mind so strongly attached to Shiva, he had entered an ecstatic state and lost body-consciousness. That is normal for avatars into whom the spirit of Bhagavan has not yet descended. In the case of Bhagavan, although he was a good person with a very big heart and great sincerity in whatever he did, such things did not happen to him. He did not even get involved in spirituality until he was forty years old and met his guru, Swami Pavitrananda. For a time, he was an atheist. He was God, but he did not believe in God.
Swami Vivekananda gave a speech at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago, in which he explained that the sun of spirituality would rise again in the East, on the banks of the Sangpo. The Sangpo is the Tibetan name for the Brahmaputra, which flows through Assam, in the most easterly part of India. The capital, Guwahati, is also located on the Brahmaputra. Bhagavan had all his most important realisations in Guwahati.
Swami Krishnananda was a disciple of the Holy Mother, Sri Sarada Devi, herself a disciple of Ramakrishna, and Swamiji was the guru of Bhagavan’s guru. After twenty-five years of austerities in the jungle, he achieved nirvikalpa samadhi. Subtle bodies communicate more with brahmajñanis than with other people. The subtle body of an ancient sage spoke to him about the forth-coming return of Thakur Ramakrishna, the arrival of Bhagavan. Swami Krishnananda then explained to his disciples that this time Thakur would come with a sword and a white horse at the end of Kali Yuga, the Iron Age of materialism, and found a new yuga. That is the description in the Bhagavatam, one of the most important devotional scriptures in India, of Kalki. ‘Kalki’ is not the name of the avatar. It simply means the yugavatar of Kali Yuga. The white horse represents expanding consciousness, or love, which Bhagavan manifests. The sword is the Sword of Knowledge, the Vedanta, which he propagates. He is the synthesis of Chaitanya, who had the love, and Ramakrishna, who came with knowledge. Swami Krishnananda said that those who remained for fifty years more, could perhaps see Thakur, and Bhagavan realised Bhagavan within this time.
However, more important than mere prophecies is the verdict that comes from the realisation in your own heart. Prophecies are only relevant to those without realisation. Only when you have the realisation, do you have true knowledge. We must shut the books, where Bhagavan is not, and leap into the Divine Sport, where he is.
May we achieve that realisation,
With lots of love,
Hare Krishna,
Koji