The Gulf Oil Disaster: An Omen of Immeasurable Proportions
Patita Pavana das Adhikary
We learn from not only the nimmita-shastras (scriptures dealing with omens, etc.) but from the great Itihasas (Mahabharata and Ramayana) and Puranas about the Vedic science of omens. For example, when Duryodhana, the son of Gandhari, was born from a pot buried in the earth, fierce howls of jackals were heard and fires sprang up of their own accord. Seeing that this child would bring total destruction to his Kaurava race, his uncle Vidura advised he should be rejected.
Major omens indicate coming misery to entire regions. For example, when the Pandavas met the Kauravas on the Battlefield of Kurukshetra (in fulfillment of Vidura’s warning), dreadful eclipses appeared overhead. Eclipses, which are ruled by Rahu, as well as comets and meteors which come under Ketu, exacerbate and magnify existing planetary tensions.
To analyze a disaster the magnitude of the BP Gulf oil spill, we must see beyond the usual combinations considered in jataka jyotish (birth astrology with its planetary combinations, etc.). We must look for major portents of the heavens. Surprisingly, there was no eclipse cycle around the time of the BP catastrophe.
In fact, we had expected something of this order. In our first issue of The Astrological Newsletter of Dec. 2009 we warned of an eclipse of dire consequences to appear in the following month, on Jan 15, 2010. Our focus in the article--which also appeared on the Dandavats website (http://www.dandavats.com/?p=7951)--was upon America. As we reported, an ongoing series of five eclipses in America’s Moon sign of Capricorn presaged the coming of grave consequences. In a following edition of The Astrological Newsletter, we warned of water problems created by a debilitated Mars who was spending not his usual 1½ month in a sign, but nearly 8 months! Mars was moving back and forth, and sometimes standing still in Cancer--his sign of debility-- from 5 Oct 2009 till 27 May 2010, an unheard of 233 days. Certainly this was a warning of a coming water-connected disaster, but exactly what, and when?
The Gamma Virginids meteor shower ran from 4 April till 21 April. Following that, the Eta Aquarid meteor shower emanating from the tail of Halley’s Comet began lighting up the sky. Shrila Prabhupada once commented that in 1914 when he was eighteen he saw Dhumaketu, Halley’s Comet, which presaged World War One.
On 15 April, just five days before the BP debacle, a huge fireball lit up the Midwestern US sky “momentarily turning night into day, rattling houses and causing trees and the ground to shake”. The meteor’s awesome and spectacular display was caught on a couple of police cameras, as seen in the following links:
Filmed from a moving police car in Edmonton, Canada:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxLB3vnLbcs&NR=1Filmed from a stationary police car in Iowa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCP5hwOXtMk
Shrila Prabhupada once wrote to a disciple that America was founded on bloodshed and it will be liquidated in bloodshed. He advised that anyone who tries to enjoy in America without Krishna consciousness is complicit in the original sins of a so-called great country. In our December 2009 edition of The Astrological Newsletter, we wrote:
“Regarding America, it should not be forgotten that this ‘friend of the world’ was founded on war. Neither have the unmitigated sins of the country’s savage beginnings been expiated. Just as Roman Polanski, the popular film director now in his seventies, is paying for a crime committed in America thirty years ago, so America’s karmic visitation from past sins is long overdue. ‘The debts of the father are left to the son,’ and the colonial sins of America’s founding fathers have been bequeathed to the world. Since America has grown from atop the slain bodies of the land’s original inhabitants—the slaughtered ‘Indians’ who taught British ‘pilgrims’ how to grow crops and live in their new ‘free world’—war has been the nation’s fuel that has kept ‘the land of the free’ running for hundreds of years.”
Ironically, it appears as though the karmic retribution in blood long due has taken the form of oil pollution, an ironic twist to the anti-war slogan “No Blood for Oil”. One of the most vocal opponents to our December Newsletter’s predictions came from Florida (as seen on Dandavats, Dec. 9th 2009), where by now an underwater geyser of oil created by British Petroleum is destroying wildlife and once-pristine beaches. As the future of America hangs by a thread, things are deteriorating quicker than the scientists, executives or politicians are willing to admit.
One of the malefic portents repeatedly mentioned in the shastras is that Deities appear to be weeping in the temples. As we are writing this, we find that a revered 60-foot statue of Lord Jesus Christ in Ohio has been struck by lightning and destroyed. Ironically, the company that insured the statue has refused to cover its destruction based upon their assessment that it was “destroyed by an act of God.” See the omen on film at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGTBFPte-MY&feature=related
The next eclipse will occur on 26 June 2010, a lunar event in Sagittarius, Mula nakshatra (“the root”). It will be followed a fortnight later on 11 July by a total solar event in Gemini in Purnavasu nakshatra (so the star of rebirth will be eclipsed.) As seen from the next several next articles, we are not alone in our call that blind optimism must be abandoned in favor of the philosophical yet practical agrarian lifestyle that Shrila Prabhupada taught us as varnashram dharma.
This morning while waist deep in the cool, clear waters of the Black Sea, I wondered as I finished my Gayatri prayers, what have they done to the ocean on the other side of the world? Written 16 June 2010. ·
We learn from not only the nimmita-shastras (scriptures dealing with omens, etc.) but from the great Itihasas (Mahabharata and Ramayana) and Puranas about the Vedic science of omens. For example, when Duryodhana, the son of Gandhari, was born from a pot buried in the earth, fierce howls of jackals were heard and fires sprang up of their own accord. Seeing that this child would bring total destruction to his Kaurava race, his uncle Vidura advised he should be rejected.
Major omens indicate coming misery to entire regions. For example, when the Pandavas met the Kauravas on the Battlefield of Kurukshetra (in fulfillment of Vidura’s warning), dreadful eclipses appeared overhead. Eclipses, which are ruled by Rahu, as well as comets and meteors which come under Ketu, exacerbate and magnify existing planetary tensions.
To analyze a disaster the magnitude of the BP Gulf oil spill, we must see beyond the usual combinations considered in jataka jyotish (birth astrology with its planetary combinations, etc.). We must look for major portents of the heavens. Surprisingly, there was no eclipse cycle around the time of the BP catastrophe.
In fact, we had expected something of this order. In our first issue of The Astrological Newsletter of Dec. 2009 we warned of an eclipse of dire consequences to appear in the following month, on Jan 15, 2010. Our focus in the article--which also appeared on the Dandavats website (http://www.dandavats.com/?p=7951)--was upon America. As we reported, an ongoing series of five eclipses in America’s Moon sign of Capricorn presaged the coming of grave consequences. In a following edition of The Astrological Newsletter, we warned of water problems created by a debilitated Mars who was spending not his usual 1½ month in a sign, but nearly 8 months! Mars was moving back and forth, and sometimes standing still in Cancer--his sign of debility-- from 5 Oct 2009 till 27 May 2010, an unheard of 233 days. Certainly this was a warning of a coming water-connected disaster, but exactly what, and when?
The Gamma Virginids meteor shower ran from 4 April till 21 April. Following that, the Eta Aquarid meteor shower emanating from the tail of Halley’s Comet began lighting up the sky. Shrila Prabhupada once commented that in 1914 when he was eighteen he saw Dhumaketu, Halley’s Comet, which presaged World War One.
On 15 April, just five days before the BP debacle, a huge fireball lit up the Midwestern US sky “momentarily turning night into day, rattling houses and causing trees and the ground to shake”. The meteor’s awesome and spectacular display was caught on a couple of police cameras, as seen in the following links:
Filmed from a moving police car in Edmonton, Canada:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxLB3vnLbcs&NR=1Filmed from a stationary police car in Iowa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCP5hwOXtMk
Shrila Prabhupada once wrote to a disciple that America was founded on bloodshed and it will be liquidated in bloodshed. He advised that anyone who tries to enjoy in America without Krishna consciousness is complicit in the original sins of a so-called great country. In our December 2009 edition of The Astrological Newsletter, we wrote:
“Regarding America, it should not be forgotten that this ‘friend of the world’ was founded on war. Neither have the unmitigated sins of the country’s savage beginnings been expiated. Just as Roman Polanski, the popular film director now in his seventies, is paying for a crime committed in America thirty years ago, so America’s karmic visitation from past sins is long overdue. ‘The debts of the father are left to the son,’ and the colonial sins of America’s founding fathers have been bequeathed to the world. Since America has grown from atop the slain bodies of the land’s original inhabitants—the slaughtered ‘Indians’ who taught British ‘pilgrims’ how to grow crops and live in their new ‘free world’—war has been the nation’s fuel that has kept ‘the land of the free’ running for hundreds of years.”
Ironically, it appears as though the karmic retribution in blood long due has taken the form of oil pollution, an ironic twist to the anti-war slogan “No Blood for Oil”. One of the most vocal opponents to our December Newsletter’s predictions came from Florida (as seen on Dandavats, Dec. 9th 2009), where by now an underwater geyser of oil created by British Petroleum is destroying wildlife and once-pristine beaches. As the future of America hangs by a thread, things are deteriorating quicker than the scientists, executives or politicians are willing to admit.
One of the malefic portents repeatedly mentioned in the shastras is that Deities appear to be weeping in the temples. As we are writing this, we find that a revered 60-foot statue of Lord Jesus Christ in Ohio has been struck by lightning and destroyed. Ironically, the company that insured the statue has refused to cover its destruction based upon their assessment that it was “destroyed by an act of God.” See the omen on film at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGTBFPte-MY&feature=related
The next eclipse will occur on 26 June 2010, a lunar event in Sagittarius, Mula nakshatra (“the root”). It will be followed a fortnight later on 11 July by a total solar event in Gemini in Purnavasu nakshatra (so the star of rebirth will be eclipsed.) As seen from the next several next articles, we are not alone in our call that blind optimism must be abandoned in favor of the philosophical yet practical agrarian lifestyle that Shrila Prabhupada taught us as varnashram dharma.
This morning while waist deep in the cool, clear waters of the Black Sea, I wondered as I finished my Gayatri prayers, what have they done to the ocean on the other side of the world? Written 16 June 2010. ·
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