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Kalki: The Man On The White Horse
“Worship God: For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse;
And he
that sat upon him was called Faithful and True,
And in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns;
And he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood:
And his name is called the Word of God.
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses,
Clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword,
That with it he should smite the nations:
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron:
And he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness,
and wrath of Almighty God.
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written,
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
Revelation 19:11-16
"The Kalki-avatara is
described in two varieties: one two-armed, the other four-armed. In the
dasavatara slabs we find usually the two-armed variety described
in the Vishudharmottara Purana as "a powerful man in angry mood,
riding on horseback with a sword in his raised hand."
Klaus K.
Klostermaier, Hinduism: A Short History,
Oneworld Pub., 2000, p. 121)
"In Hinduism, an avatar is
the incarnation, or manifestation, of a god, especially of Vishnu. The
doctrine of avatars first appeared in the Bhagavad Gita; portrayals of
the various avatars are found in the Puranas and other epics of India.
Krishna is one of the most popular incarnations of Vishnu. Hindu legend
says that Vishnu has already assumed nine avatars, with a tenth, Kalki,
due to appear to usher in a golden age."
1998 Grolier Multimedia
Encyclopedia
"Kalki is the next Avatar of Vishnu. He is
yet to appear and when he does He will appear, riding his white horse
and wielding a shiny sword, at the end of the Kaliyuga, the dark age
through which we are passing. This is considered to be the age of
suffering, darkness and doom. His task will be to end the evil and
restore the Dharma. Thus will begin a new cycle, again will start
the Satyayuga or the age of truth and righteousness."
www.utenti.tripod.it/
"In KALKI Avatar, Lord Vishnu will incarnate himself as KALKI, the
machine-man, who will come riding his white horse and with his blazing
sword in his hands. This is supposed to be a future avatar of Lord
Vishnu. At the end of Kali Yuga (present eon) He will punish all evil
doers in this world, destroy this world supposedly and recreate a golden
age again. KALKI is the last of the avatars of Lord Vishnu."
http://members.tripod.com/~srinivasp/mythology/kalki.html
"The tenth and the last avatar of Vishnu, Kalki, is yet to appear. Kalki
will appear at the end of the Kalyuga. This avatar will appear seated on
a white horse with a drawn sword blazing like a comet. He shall come
finally to destroy the wicked, to restart the new creation and to
restore the purity of conduct in people's lives."
http://www.hindunet.org/avatars/kalki/
The
Kings will be of churlish spirit, violent temper,
And will be ever addicted to falsehood and wickedness.
They will inflict death to women, children, and cows;
They will seize the property of subjects, be of unlimited power,
And will, for most part, rapidly rise and fall; their lives will be
short,
Their desires insatiable, and they will display but little piety.
The people of various countries intermingling with them,
Will follow their various example;
And the barbarians being powerful in the patronage of princes,
Whilst purer tribes are neglected, the people will perish.
Wealth and piety will decrease day by day,
Until the world shall be wholly depraved.
Property alone will confer rank, wealth will be the only source of
devotion,
Passion will be the sole bond of union between the sexes,
Falsehood will be the only means of success in litigation,
And women will be the objects merely of sensual gratification.
Earth will be venerated only for its mineral treasures;
The brahminical thread will constitute a brahmin;
External types will be the only distinction of the several orders of
life,
Dishonesty will be the universal means of subsistence,
Weakness will be the cause of dependence,
Menace and presumption will be the subterfuge for learning,
Liberality will be devotion, simple ablution will be purification.
Mutual assent will be marriage, fine clothes will be dignity,
And water afar will be esteemed a holy spring . .
Thus, in the Kali Yuga shall decay flourish,
Until the human race approaches annihilation.
Vishnu Purana
"Avatar of the Golden Age
Kalki according to tradition is the tenth avatar or incarnation of
Vishnu (Buddha was the ninth avatar of Vishnu).
The symbolic form of Kalki is on a white horse wielding a sword. The
Name Kalki literally means "The Annihilator of Ignorance."
His Divine Mission is to close Kaliyuga, the Iron Age (one of 4 Yugas or
time zones that mark the spiritual progression of mankind not the
technical iron age), and usher in the Golden Age, a new period of peace
prosperity and harmony.
The current age Kaliyuga also called the age of darkness and ignorance.
It is the most degenerate and fallen of the ages, characterized by a
hardening of the spiritual core of mankind, an almost total lack of
sacredness, and extreme materialism, as humans can no longer determine
what is essential for living in this fallen age and what is irrelevant.
The Antaryamin, or Indweller has been put to rest in the heart of
mankind. Those of you with a New Age background may think of this
Antaryamin as the Higher Self.
An avatar is a being that comes to change the "truth". Edison was an
avatar of science. The Beatles were avatars of music. A Celestial Avatar
has a definate Divine purpose. One can see how the Christ changed the
"truth" just in the first 2 words of the Lord's Prayer: "Our Father".
In the Golden Age, in a gesture of Supreme Friendship, this Antaryamin,
through an externally stimulated action awakens the heart. Many have
already been having such Profound Divine Mystical Experience. This
experience, this personal encounter with Divinity in one form or another
(Moses and the Thorn Bush is a well known example of such experience) is
the one common denominator in the lives of all Saints, Sages, Mystics,
and Prophets.
It is so important to the evolution of the consciousness of mankind, for
it is belief (ignorance and speculation) that separates, while discovery
unites. Just see for a moment the sufferings of the saints and
discoverers throughout time. How the nature of belief (ignorance) is to
destroy anything that will shed a light on it for what it truly is.
Kalki's Divine Mission is to close Kaliyuga, the current age of darkness
and ignorance and usher in the Golden Age, a new ten thousand year cycle
of peace, prosperity and harmony. He is to liberate all of mankind from
suffering and to bring enlightenment to all of mankind.
This picture will be very meaningful to those of you in touch with the
dawn of the Golden Age which is a shift in consciousness as well as an
astrological occurrence. The advent of the Kalki Avatar is a necessary
component in this phenomena.
It is also interesting to note that in Siberia, there is a culture that
closely mirrors that of Tibet. There is a ceremony where a statue of a
horse is pulled through the streets. It is said that when harmony
returns to mankind, Buddha will return riding the horse.
The question is this: Will Buddha or the Christ return when harmony has
returned to mankind? If so how can will this harmony happen? Previous
interventions from the Kingdom of Heaven can be likened to putting a
lump of fine gold in a glass of water. The gold remains gold, and the
water remains water. The next incarnation, which is called the Sampoorna
(total-meaning the incarnation of God or Supreme Consciousness on this
planet) Avatar can be likened to putting a drop of yogurt in into a
glass of warm milk. Soon all of the milk will be transformed into
yogurt.
Man cannot transform himself. He can become highly reformed however, in
his practicing of concepts such as love, kindness, honesty, etc. But
true transformation is a result of Mystical Experience. You might say
that transformation is a benediction.
Another look into the lives of the saints, prophets and mystics would
reveal all.
We are now in the throws of a mighty spiritual awakening, unprecedented
in the history of human kind. People from all walks of life are walking
and talking with God in a tangible form. Their hearts have truly
flowered, and for them, Heaven has met Earth. They have entered the
Golden Age which is a state of consciousness as well as an astrological
event.
Other would say that this is not possible. That the old calendars say
that the Golden Age won't "be here" for thousands of years. Currently
there is heated debate in India as some experts have claimed to have
found errors in the ancient calendars. This puts the date of the Golden
Age very close to the end of the Mayan calendar.”
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