Guest guest Posted October 31, 1999 Report Share Posted October 31, 1999 Dear members, adiyEn is curious to know if any of you can enlighten me on the following question that is puzzling me for sometime: A month ago there was a massive earthquake in Taiwan that killed about 4000 people. A month earlier there was a mighty earthquake in Turkey that killed more than 10000 people in one night. Just last week in India in the state of Orissa a cyclone struck killing more than 100 people in one night. Even as I am writing this note a "super-cyclone" has again struck Orissa with more violent force than the last time and no one is sure yet how many have been killed but the number is expected to be in thousands rather than hundreds. Sometimes when we witness or come to learn about a series of natural catastrophes like this, one cannot help thinking if it is all not some kind of "praLayam" or doomsday or what the Bible describes as apocalypse. My question is : (1) According to Vedic cosmology "praLayam" happens in one big bang? Or does it consist of a series of natural disasters such as the ones we saw above in the past few months? (2) Does "praLayam" mean TOTAL destruction or does it envisage some residual vestige of life still lingering on in the world after the apocalypse? (3) Will "praLayam" occur suddenly? Without any advance intimation of its imminence? Or will it be preceded by series of smaller advance-warning disasters and cataclysms? (4) Will "praLayam" consist of only big deluge or will it also include earthquake, hurricanes, pestilence, drought, outbreak of epidemic, volcanic eruption, avalanches, ozone-layer depletion etc.? Are there any passages in Vedas about these matters? What do the passages in the Veda relating to "praLayam" have to say about these things? adiyEn is very curious to know. Somebody knowledgeable please explain. dAsan, Sampathkumaran ===== Bid and sell for free at http://auctions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 2, 1999 Report Share Posted November 2, 1999 SrI: Dear Shri Sampath Kumar namO nArAyaNA. SrI Sampath Kumar wrote ---------------------- My question is : (1) According to Vedic cosmology "praLayam" happens in one big bang? Or does it consist of a series of natural disasters such as the ones we saw above in the past few months? ............ ------------------------ AdiyEn has read in the book "A dialogue on Hinduism" by SrI V.N. Gopala Desikan that there are actually three types of pralayas: The first one is the continuing pralaya which we have everyday => people dying, trees and plants withering, the animals dying. This is called daily pralaya or continuing pralaya. adiyEn feels that this also includes other natural calamities like what you have mentioned. The second type of pralaya occurs at the end of a kalpa namely at the end of one day of Brahma. Here the first three lokas of the seven namely, Bhuloka, Bhuvarloka and Suvarloka, get destroyed. The third type of pralaya happens at the end of the life of Brahma. This is when all beings chetanas and achetanas rest in the Lord in a very subtle form. Acharyan thiruvadigalE saranam Praveena nAmni rAmAnuja dasi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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