Vedic Prophecies of Indonesia

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Sabdapalon was a priest and adviser to Brawijaya V, the last ruler of

the Hindu empire Majapahit in Java. He is also said to have cursed

his king upon the conversion of the latter to Islam in 1478.

 

Sabdapalon then promised to return, after 500 years and at a time of

widespread political corruption and natural disasters, to sweep Islam

from the island and restore Hindu-Javanese religion and civilization.

Some of the first new Hindu temples built in Java were indeed

completed around 1978, for example Pura Blambangan in the regency of

Banyuwangi.

 

As the prophesies foretold, Mt. Sumeru erupted around the same time.

All this is taken as evidence of the accuracy of Sabdapalon's

predictions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabdapalon

 

Ratu Joyoboyo, also Sri Mapanji Jayabaya or Jayabhaya reigned over

the kingdom of Kediri in East Java from 1135 to 1157 AD. He reunified

Java after a split that occurred with the death of his predecessor

Airlangga. He is also remembered for his just and prosperous rule,

and reputed to have been an incarnation of the Hindu deity Vishnu. He

is the archetypal 'just king' (ratu adil) who is reborn during the

dark age of reversal (jaman edan) at the end of each cosmic cycle to

restore social justice, order, and harmony in the world.

 

His name is mentioned in the manggala (prologue) of the famous

kakawin (Old Javanese poetry in Indian meteres) Bharatayuddha as the

patron of the two poets; mpu Sedah and mpu Panuluh who wrote this

work.

 

When Japan took Java, in the first weeks of 1942, Indonesians danced

in the streets, welcoming the Japanese army as the fulfillment of a

prophecy ascribed to Joyoboyo, who foretold the day when white men

would one day establish their rule on Java and tyrannize the people

for many years – but they would be driven out by the arrival of

yellow men from the north. These yellow men, Joyoboyo predicted,

would remain for one crop cycle, and after that Java would be freed

from foreign domination. To most of the Javanese, Japan was a

liberator: the prophecy had been fulfilled. The Japanese freed

Indonesian nationalists from Dutch prisons and hired them as civil

servants and administrators. In the waning days of 1944, however, it

was clear that Japan could not win the war. The Japanese officially

granted Indonesia its independence on 9 August 1945, and the

commander of Japan's Southeast Asian forces appointed future

President Sukarno as chairman of the preparatory committee for

Indonesian independence. As one account of Indonesian history puts

it, "With the minor exception that three crops had been harvested,

Jayabaya's prophecy had been realized."

 

Together with the prophecy of Sabdapalon to return, after 500 years

and at a time of widespread political corruption and natural

disasters (in 1978), to sweep Islam from the island and restore Hindu-

Javanese religion and civilization, Joyobooyo's prophecy gave much

heart to the Indonesian Hindu communities.

 

Many believe that the time for the arrival of a new ratu adil is near

(as the prophesies put it, "when iron wagons drive without horses and

ships sail through the sky [i.e. cars and airplanes]"), and that he

will come to rescue and reunite Indonesia after an acute crisis,

ushering in the dawn of a new golden age.

 

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