Risabha Deva

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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PEEPING INTO THE FUTURE
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and would come the nearest to it at the end of the sixth kāla of the running half-cycle. Let us further suppose that the first ore of these bodies to draw near to the earth' will be the comet with a fiery nature, like that of the sun. Its approach will then be charaeterised by all the indications given in the prophecy – the deterioration of vegetation, the disappearance of fire, because of the lack of fuel, the blowing of hot winds, the showering down of hot cinders, burning dust and the like. The destroyer will remain in the vicinity of the eath for the space of 40 days, which will be full of calamity for all living nature. It will then depart and recede further away. The other comet with the nature of the Moon will then draw near, wlien there will occur the opposite kind of phenomena—he blowing of cold winds, the raining down -of cooling thing, curds, milk, ''ambrosia', and the like ! Humanity will now reappear on the surface of the earth, and will once more inhabit it. It will take them about 42,000 years to be restored to a state of civilization which will admit of the advant of a WORLD TEACHER to enlighten them "on Religious Truth.
There is an alternative explanation which would also explain the dire prophecy. Let us suppose the Earth , to run amok froin some such cause as the depletion of its hidden strength--petrol, coal, and the like-or the order and regularity of the Solar System to be disturbed from some other