Significance Of 2012🔗

The year 2012 is the most talked-about subject in the worlds of both media and mysticism.

The calendars of ancient cultures except the Vedic civilization come to an end in 2012. This has been foretold by the ancient Mayan calendar, the ancient Chinese oracle – The Book of Changes (易經, Yì Jīng, I Ching), and many other prophetic sources.

The 2012 phenomenon comprises the range of beliefs and proposals positing transformative events will occur in the year 2012 culminating in the winter solstice on December 21ˢᵗ. Arguments supporting this are drawn from the mixture of archaeoastronomical speculation, alternative interpretations of mythology, numerological constructions, and prophecies from extraterritorial beings.

Even modern technological prediction methods like the Web Bot Project forecast a cataclysm of some sort that will devastate our planet in 2012.

The Web Bot Project is a system of Internet bots or web robots, sometimes also known as spiders. The technology study software, language and words by crawling across every webpage on the Internet, monitoring news articles, blogs, forums, and other forms of Internet chatter, searching for and collecting keywords.

These keywords along with the text before and after them are then interpreted to form a body of knowledge used to gauge the collective unconsciousness of humanity. It has accurately predicted many events including the 9/11 tragedy in 2001 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Web Bot Project has predicted major catastrophe in 2012.

Certain predictions about how the world could end in 2012 (like alignment with a black hole, collision with a rogue planet, or polar shifts) have been rejected as pseudoscience by the scientific community. Paramahamsa Nithyananda too rejects this with his spiritual authority.

A metaphysical interpretation of this transition points that, during this time, the planet and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation. To transform, you only need tremendous courage – the courage to accept your past and the readiness to go beyond it, without having shyness or without holding on to any judgment.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda trust the statement that 2012 marks the beginning of a new era of conscious experience. Every religion has its spiritual components and religious components. More spiritual components are going to become popular in all the religions!

Conversely, some people believe that 2012 marks the beginning of an apocalypse – a total devastation or doom for Planet Earth. Paramahamsa Nithyananda does not believe this is going to happen. He also does not see any big natural calamity happening due to ‘global warming’.

Both these ideas have been widely discussed and debated in numerous books, television documentaries, and have spread around the world through websites and discussion groups on the Internet. It is beyond the scope of this work to explore the myriad references and implications of the 2012 predictions. 2012 seems to impinge on our daily lives in ways that refuse to be ignored.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda says, 'There will not be any destruction for Planet Earth. But there will be a huge conscious explosion. Even if you are a little prepared, you will be pushed into jeevan mukti, a new consciousness.'

It is commonly believed that the events expected to unfold in December 2012 were set in motion in December

2009. Since then, we have witnessed a number of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, snowstorms, floods and tornadoes around the globe. Natural disasters are happening with increasing frequency and strength, getting more and more costly as well as deadly. Though an impactful record in itself, this might only be a sneak preview of the greater changes that are poised to happen in our planet in the foreseeable future.

As any geologist will tell you, the upheavals we perceive on the surface are only indicative of a still more powerful disturbance simmering below. In fact, in Nature, any upheaval is understood to be an expression of a deeper cleansing and balancing process, the magnitude of which we are often unaware.

Exactly such an upheaval is being predicted in 2012, on the level of human consciousness. Discussions of consciousness are generally beyond the scope of intellect, and often provoke mental resistance. However, as Galileo retorted when forced to revoke his statements on heliocentricity, 'What is happening will continue to happen whether we accept it or not.'

We do not need to look far for the symptoms of drastic changes. In our own neighborhood, the gross rise of materialism on one side is paralleled by an equally steep increase in the number of people desperately seeking spiritual meaning in their lives. Crime, depression and moral depravity are flourishing side by side with high aspirations and mysticism.

There is an apparent contradiction here, but this could be because we are observing the phenomenon from the finest vantage point – the moment of transition. It is like that one precious instant when, perched at the very top of a Ferris wheel, we are free to survey the whole panorama of light and shade, spread out on both sides.

According to Vedic philosophy, human civilization evolves from a state of utter ignorance to one of complete enlightenment, in a cyclic movement which takes hundreds of centuries. We are now in Kali Yuga (the age of ignorance), making the difficult transition into Satya Yuga (the age of enlightenment). In a terrific churn that is gripping both the inner and outer worlds, all that is excessive and unsuitable in our world, in our personalities and our lives, is being ripped away, so that we may shine forth in elemental splendor.

In a sense, this is payback time. We may say that natural calamities occur to set right the imbalances caused by the atrocities we have committed on Nature. However, they might also serve to create a new space in which regeneration can occur.

For instance, as the result of the powerful earthquakes which shook Chile in 2010 and Japan in 2011, seismologists estimate that the axis of the earth has shifted slightly, redistributing the Earth’s mass, increasing its speed of rotation, shortening the length of the day, and altering the planet’s magnetic field. The geologic effect is almost imperceptible, but the energetics of such a shift could have wide implications for humanity.

As sentient beings, we are continuously exchanging energetic information with every aspect of our environment. The earth itself is a giant energetic entity, and its vibrations are continuously affecting our bio-rhythms and our mental patterns. The functioning of the human brain can be altered by magnetic signals. In fact, magnetic therapy is one method used to cure chronic depression.

Magnetic therapy employs only a tiny magnetic field to induce positive vibrations. It is difficult to imagine what might happen when the magnetic field of the earth itself is altered. How powerful might be the changes in consciousness we can expect!

And this is only the beginning. The impending alignment of our planet with the Galactic Center is an event that occurs only once in about 26,000 years. In a process that will last about ten years, the earth will be linked by an open channel to higher energies from other dimensions. The tectonic and volcanic activity we are witnessing today is no more than our planet ‘getting ready’ to flush out her old patterns and welcome this new energy surge and the consequent transformation.

The kind of transformation we are speaking of is at a level far deeper than the mind. These energies have the power to catapult us to a higher level of consciousness, characterized by clarity, harmony, creativity, and blissful living. As many spiritual teachers have said, ‘Energy is Consciousness.’

The primary spiritual text of the Vedas, the Īśāvāsya Upaniṣad, opens with the lines:

Sanskrit: इशावास्यम् इदम् सर्वम् Transliteration: Īśāvāsyamidaṁ sarvaṁ Translation: All that exists is an expression of the Divine

All that exists is nothing but Consciousness; even this material world we are living in, even our bodies, even the cup of coffee you may be holding in your hand right now.

But we need not concern ourselves with the metaphysics of the issue if we do not wish to. It is sufficient for us to appreciate that we face two distinct choices: either to integrate ourselves harmoniously with the higher energies flowing toward us and take the quantum leap into a higher state of consciousness, or to continue to live in denial till we are swept away by the tide of inevitable change.