04 Nov 2022
The first Christians thought Jesus would return in their own lifetimes. He, a descendant of the great King David who slew the giant Goliath, would overthrow the Roman conquerors and restore a new Jerusalem as the capital of a redeemed Jewish Kingdom. Never happened. The time frame kept getting pushed out with new explanations and theology developed.
After a hundred years, then another two hundred, it became obvious that Jesus ain't coming any time soon. By this time, the Roman Empire had officially become Christian and this meant the prophecy was about to be fulfilled. Lots of evidence for it if you looked. But the empire then split into two - the Western Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox - empires. The prophecy then became about how reuniting the world (the empire) under one glorious holy empire would invoke the second coming of Christ.
European history until around 1000 CE revolved around the idea of One King to Rule Them All (all nations of Europe), who'd re-create the Holy Roman Empire after which Jesus would come. We had competing popes, holy wars, Crusades ... the Protestant Reformation changed that paradigm but any catastrophe was a sign that the end was nigh.
Now, in the BK version of the monomyth, we have a simple jewel merchant from Karachi and Calcutta who is related (by reincarnation not genetics) to Krishna and Narayan, and would be the vehicle by which the Ring can be returned to Mordor ... sorry, wrong story ... the vehicle by which the corrupt rulers of the world, and especially the Congress Party of India, will be overthrown and holy mother Bharat would be restored as a divine kingdom in which her children can frolic and play free of care.
As the BK prophecies fail, and the timeline gets pushed further along, well-documented on this website over many years by ex-l, the faithful grasp at new straws and employ their well-practiced magical thinking that denies previous "absolute truths" were ever absolute, and defies even BK logic and its previously divinely revealed mathematics. (I wonder how Suraj, who made his name in the BKs as a "scientific thinker", explains the Murli "numerology" now?).
My point is this. History shows that there have always been people who will believe such stories and will grasp at any interpretation and selective events to confirm their beliefs.
What I find interesting about these last speculations from Suraj, is that the old apocalyptic paradigm is alive and well in India while, so I am told, in the West they have dropped the language and narrative around "Destruction" completely.
In the West, they are now effectively greenwashing Vinash (using the language of environmentalism to cover up their failures) by using language like "transformation" and "transitioning"; heralding the "clean energy revolution" as proof of the development of "Golden Age technologies" - which in Murlis past, before being revised for the umpteenth time, was said to be nuclear powered).
You can say anything and have it believed if you believe it yourself!
There is, as I understand from Western BKism now, still a "golden dawn" ahead, but getting there will now be relatively untraumatic (compared to the fire and brimstone rivers of blood and nuclear armageddon of past narratives). There's now no need for a nuclear holocaust apparently (someone tell Suraj). Maybe the old BKs, possibly traumatised by decades of expecting a nuclear armageddon at any moment, find this new view to be one they can happily accommodate without question given that it's much easier to live with?
It's a gradual evolution now, based on personal well-being found in BK lifestyle and morals, and donating to the yugya (of course) that brings on a new kind of New Age (that still accepts that for those lucky chosen well-deserving few to rule the world and live long & prosper, 99% of the population must somehow cease being around.
Here comes another asteroid - that'll explain it!