MAYAN CALENDAR ENDS on December 21, 2012
What will happen after that date? Nobody knows.

When Shoemaker-Levy - 9 comet hit Jupiter on July 16th 1994, the whole world rejoiced at that event, with astronomers cheering all over the world. I am sure during that jubilation nobody thought, whether there is a comet many times bigger than Shoemaker-Levy-9 poised to hit earth any time in future!!!

A comet or meteor may or may not hit earth one day and we will know about that only months before. After all, amateur astronomers Shoemaker & Levy found out about that comet which hit Jupiter only six months before, the comet actually hit planet Jupiter.

Our earth is only a very small planet in a world of millions of galaxies and our end as we see it may or may not come any time in the future. It is a naked fact, whether we want to face that or not.

Earth is 4.55 billion years old and our written history is only 4000 to 5000 years old. So we have no idea about the thousands of meteors and asteroids and comets routinely slammed into earth during the early stages of its history. Believe it or not, Earth is in the middle of a asteroid belt and as such anything can happen to it in future.

If Shoemaker-Levy comet might have hit earth, it will be like several millions of rock in 1 to 2.5 square miles in sizes hitting earth at a speed of 134,000 miles per hour producing a surface impact temp. of 53,550 degrees Fahrenheit [Sun's surface temperature is 10,350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Instantly the temperature of earth would have go up 30 to 40 degrees high and ice at poles will melt and flood the world; earth will be covered by 100 or 200 miles levels high dust. That dust cover would have make the world in few days a piece of ice, killing all the plants and animals.

This earth and the universe have been created & destroyed many times according to Hindu scriptures.

This perpetual creation and destruction of universe with the Sanskrit word, LEELA - the child-like expression of God.

Indeed the beauty of Hinduism is its constant awareness of never ending and perpetual creation and destruction of universe. Life is MAYA or illusion. God alone exists and everything else is Maya or illusion.

There are countless theories of creation right from the Greek mythology to Bahaism. All of them make same sense as the Genesis theory of creation. [Holy Bible Gen. 1:1-2:4 Gen 2:5].

Carl Sagan, said in Cosmos video series, Hinduism has a creation theory similar to modern astronomical theory.

1. ------- According to Hindu scriptures everything emerged from that which is smaller than the smallest factor of matter named Anu.

Chandogya Upanishad states

“EVERYTHING CAME FROM BRAHMAN, WHICH IS SUBTLER THAN THE ATOM, and GREATER THAN THE GREATEST”.

According the BIG BANG theory, the universe came into existence about 15 billion years ago, after the explosion of insignificant amounts of Hydrogen in gaseous format.

2 ------- In Hinduism, the "Creation and Destruction of the universe" is a continuous, cyclical process. It never had a beginning and never will have an end. On one side creation happens in the universe and still on another side, Destruction also happens. This earth we see had been created and destroyed many times. It will never end.

Idol of Lord Nataraja symbolizes the “Creation & Destruction” of the universe..

3 ------- The upper right hand of the Lord Nataraja idol holds a drum to symbolize the primal sound of creation, the upper left hand bears a tongue of flames, the element of destruction. The two hands represent the dynamic balance of creation and destruction in the universe.

4. ------- If we can state that Christian creation has a perfect beginning and perfect end like a straight line, Hindu creation & Destruction concept is in the form of a circle, with no beginning and no end.

5 ------- Reincarnation theory of Hindus tally with Darwin's theory of evolution. It is very interesting to note that 10 Avatars [incarnations of God] Lord Vishnu comply with Darwin's theory of evolution. First Lord Vishnu came as fish, then as tortoise, then as a boar, then as a man- lion, then as a boy, man etc. Did early Hindu theologians know about Darwin's theory? Or did Darwin was influenced by Hindu concepts, since much of Platonic thinking are of Hindu origin?

6 ------- The Big-bang theory states that universe came into existence about 15 billion years ago. Those 15 billion years in Hinduism is only `two days' to Lord Brahma - the God of creation.

7 ------- When modern astronomy deals with billion of years, Hindu creation concepts deal with trillions of years.

8. ------- Stressing the cyclical nature of creation and Destruction, Lord Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita:

“I AM LIFE, CAUSE OF ALL LIFE
AND
I AM DEATH, DEVOURER OF ALL."

Universe first emerged as casual universe, from which subtle or astral universe came, and finally material universe emerged.

9. ------- Hindu scriptures address earth as MOTHER EARTH. Much of what you read in green-peace movement and earth-summit in South America came from Hindu concept of earth.

10. ------- As per Srimad Mahabhavata Purana we are in KALI YUGA now. About 427,000 years later this earth will be destroyed and another earth will be created. This creation and destruction of the universe is a never ending process.

11. ------- Sage Manu wrote in Manusmriti, UNIVERSE UNDERGOES ENDLESS CYCLES OF BIRTH AND DESTRUCTION. "Creation and Destruction" are part and parcel of everything including the universe. Each insect has its own cycle of creation and Destruction. The universe we see including the `milky way' will be destroyed and created time and time again.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna states,

“ In the beginning of time or KALPA, I create everything and at the end of time KALPA, the whole creation merge in me. By my will the whole universe is created & annihilated again and again “ [GITA 9:7,8]
12. ------- Lord Krishna states in Bhagavad Gita [8:18]:

“When the god of creation starts his day, all entities manifest from the un manifested state, and there after when his night falls, they go back to un manifested state again.”

So during his day, the entities become alive and during his night entities are destroyed. This creation and destruction process happens again and again.

13. ------- This whole process is known as LEELA or CHILD PLAY OF GOD in Hinduism. Everything is MAYA or illusion and just like the ON and OFF switches on a digital computer makes thousands of forms of "illusion" for all of us, LEELA is creating all this illusion again and again.

14. ------- We are now living in KALI YUGA. The total number of years in KALI YUGA is 432000 human years. We are already 5000 years into Kali Yuga. At the end of Kali Yuga, that is about 427,000 years from today this universe will be destroyed and Another universe will be built for creation to start again.

15. ------- In Hinduism, time immemorial is measured in KALPAS.

1 KALPA = 8,640,000,000 years [8.64 trillion human years]
1 KALPA = 1 day and night for god of creation
1 KALPA = 2000 MAHAYUGAS

1 MAHAYUGA = 4,320,000 years

1 MAHAYUGA = Sum total of 4 yugas KRITA YUGA, TRETA YUGA, DVAPARA YUGA & KALI YUGA

1 KRITA YUGA = 1,728,000 years [ 4 x size of Kali yuga]
1 TRETA YUGA = 1,296,000 years [ 3 x size of Kali yuga]
1 DVAPARA YUGA = 864,000 years [ 2 x size of Kali Yuga]
1 KALI YUGA = 432,000 years Add all those 4 yugas and you will get 4,320,000 years.

One Brahma, the god of creation lives for 311.40 trillion human years. After that another Brahma will come.

16. ------- First comes KRITA YUGA, then it changes into TRETA YUGA, then it changes into DVAPARA YUGA and then finally it changes into KALI YUGA.

After the destruction in KALI YUGA, creation will start all over again during KRITA YUGA . This cycle of events never stops.

17 ------- In his very popular COSMOS video series, Carl Sagan very briefly described the Hindu concept of creation. Most probably you might have seen that. Carl Sagan [billions and billions!!!] was intrigued by Hindu creation and Destruction theory since it deals with TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS of years.

Other creation theories only deals with thousands of years.

Mayans have so many concepts similar to Hindus. For example. when a Hindu say " Namasthe" he means YOU AND I ARE ONE. I SALUTE YOU AND HONOR THE GOD WITHIN YOU, WHICH IS A MIRROR IMAGE OF MYSELF.

Believe it or not A key Mayan phrase in this regard is IN LAKE'CH meaning I AM ANOTHER YOURSELF

Mayan theories of creation:

18. ------- Like Hindu astronomers Mayans computed the length of earth revolution around Sun to within 1/1000th of a Decimal point. Their recording goes up to 400,000 years in the past.

19 ------- Mayan's 5125 year "GREAT CYCLE OF EVENTS" which began 3113 B.C [Hindu kali yuga started at the same time] ends in A.D. 2012. Mayans believe that there will be great transformation to mankind by year 2012. According to Mayan's theory, by the year A.D. 2012 a global society will emerge, when all of us will be extremely closer to one another since all of us will know all about each other.

MAYAN CALENDAR ENDS on December 21, 2012
What will happen after that date?

I for one believe that all the humanity will enter into a super consciousness after that day, when all of us think alike------entering into NIRVIKALPA SAMDHI.

20 ------- Like Hindus, Mayans believe in a universe of infinite cycles of time. Mayans believe that our solar system is 7th of that kind. Hindus mythology talks about 7 heavens 7 hells and 7 earths.

21 ------- . Mayans like Hindus also believed in BODY FORCES and treatment of body by properly understanding those forces and treating the body accordingly. I feel, modern science will eventually will take lessons from Mayans and Hindus and will start treating the body just as BIO-ELECTRO MAGNETIC NET WORK and start treating it as a COMPUTER or as a ROBOT.

A day may come, when AIDS will be treated as a blockage in BIO-ELECTRIC NET WORK made by powerful negative GUILTY CONSCIOUSNESS THOUGHTS. [ Of course thoughts are just small specs of electricity in the brain].

21. ------- Did Mayans get the name from Hindus? The word Maya in Sanskrit means ILLUSION. The name of Lord Buddha's mother was MAYA.

In the epic Mahabharata, there is a description of a wandering tribe of navigators, who are called Maya. Can that Maya be the Mayans of Mexico? According archaeologists, the word Mayan came from the word MAYAB, the term usually used to describe Yucatan Peninsula or the name originate from the Roman goddess MAIA!!!

22. ------- How can we disregard Hindu & Mayan theories about creation if we decide to teach children about creation.