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Everyone in
the West, from statesman to crossing-sweeper, is aware of
the fame of NOSTRADAMUS, the French-Jewish seer who died
more than 400 years ago. The reason for his extraordinay
popularity is quite simple. Many predictions published by
Nostradamus in 1555 have been completely vindicated by the
passage of time. Writing more than 400 years ago, he not
only foresaw the two World Wars of the 20th century, but
also came close to mentioning Hitler by name ! Earlier on,
the French Revolution reached an elimination in 1792, as
predicted by him.
Incredile ?
Well, it is almost unbelievable. But even the most strident
critics have been silenced by the phenomenal accuracy of the
French seer. Of the approximately 2,500 forecasts that he
published in his poetic "Centuries", no less than
800 have been precisely fulfilled so far.The remainder cover
the period upto the year 3797. The track-record of
Nostradamus is so perfect that there can be no doubt that
the others too will be realised. His "Centuries"
are absolutely amazing.
For Hindus
especially, Nostradamus ought to be a hero of immense cheer.
The Frenchman never visited India. In point of time, his
forecasts were published well before Akbar became the Moghul
ruler in Delhi.But, despite the great distance of time and
space, Nostradamus clearly foresaw the rise of a mighty all
conquering Hindu nation. Its birth is close at hand. The
seer predicts that a resurgent India will burst forth upon
its former oppressors and destroy them completely. The
beginning of this terrible revenge will be in the seventh
month of 1999.
Meanwhile,
he predicts, after seven years of furious warfare, the
Moslems will be totally wiped out. There will be no trace
left of either Mecca or Medina. Somanath will be avenged a
billion times over. The creed of Muhammad will vanish
forever.
The
European countries who despoiled India will not be let off
either. Flames will engulf Rome as Hindu soldiers advance on
Paris overcomming the barrier of the Alps. The Pope will fly
from his lair. Much of Europe will repudiate the false
tenets of Christianity. The ancient sway of Hinduism will be
restored. Vedic chants will again fill the air.
Does this
all sound like a fairy-tale ? To convince the skeptics it is
best to quote the prophetic quatrains of the
"Centuries". It must always be borne in mind that
they were first published in 1555. Two copies of that
edition are still preserved in the French National Library
in Paris. Their genuineness cannot be disputed.
Moslem
murderers and thier Western patrons will find the following
forecast particularly hard to stomach Quatrain 75, Century X
Long awaited, he will not take birth in Europe, India will
produce the immortal ruler,Seeing wisdom and power of
unlimited scope, Asia will bow before this conquering
scholar.As if this were not a sufficient warning to
fanatics, Nostradamus makes his meaning still more explicit
in the following Quatrain 96, Century X The religion of the
name of the seas triumphs,Against the fanatics of the
Khalif's adalat,The murderous creed of the false
alefs,Between the Hindus and Christians will be caught.This
prophecy need a little explication. In geography, one finds
the Hindu Maha Sagar (the Indian Ocean in English). Hinduism
is the only religion with a sea (an ocean, rather) named
after it. The Moslem fanatics believe that the Shariat or
Koranic law with its sexual licence is God-given or Khalif's
adalat. The Koran itself opens with the letter alef (A) in
Arabic. Both Hindus and Christians have suffered at the
hands of Moslems and seek revenge. Lebanon is a foretaste of
things to come. The Nostradamian quatrain spells the doom of
the murder-creed.If this interpretation should sound
far-fetched, consider yet another prophetic quatrain
Quatrain 50, Century L From the peninsula where three seas
meet, Comes the ruler to whom Thursday is holy, His wisdom
and might all nations will greet, To oppose him in Asia will
be folly.
South India
is the only peninsula in the entire globe where three seas
meet a point and stretch away. The great Hindu leader who
will wipe out our enemies will hence be a south Indian who
offers worship on Thursdays. It is easy to see why
Nostradamus specifically mentions Thursday as the holy day.
It is only Hindus who consider Thursday sacred. Moslems pray
on Friday; Jews bow before God on Saturday; Christians bawl
hymns on Sunday at church. Nostradamus is making it clear
here that the conqueror will be a Hindu from South India. He
will bind Asia together under his rule.The Hindu leader,
however, will not be a tyrant. He will be ruthless with the
Moslem fanatics. But he will win over the communists by
persuading them of the timeless varieties of Hinduism.
Russia will become India's ally
Quatrain
95, Century III
The creed of the Moor will perish,
Followed be another more popular still,
The Dnieper will be the first to relish,
The wisdom which imposes its will.
The Moslems
are often called Moors by Europeans owing to the nearness of
Morocco with its Moslem faith. Incidentally, the Dutch who
landed in Ceylon also called the Lankan Moslems as Moors.
Even today, the Lankan Moslems are officially designated as
Moors.
The Dnieper
is a great river in southern Russia. The seer's forecast
seems to suggest that Russia will be the first among
Communist countries to abandon Marxism in favour of
Hinduism. The Red comrades in our midst will doubtless throw
up their hands in horror at the mere idea. But Riencourt,
the French writer, quotes a prophecy made by Ramakrishna
Parmahamsa shortly before his death which strongly supports
the French seer's prediction. Shri Ramakrishna declared that
his next birth would be to the north-west of India. In other
words, he will be reborn in Russia as a Hindu holy man !.
Communism is certainly a more popular creed than Islam. But
both will be alike vanquished by resurgent Hinduism.
Russia will
be greatly benefited by its alliance with the Hindu Rashtra.
Nostradamus describes Russia's good fortune
Quatrain
26, Century V
The Salvic folk will be on the winning side,
And rise to the highest point,
They cast off their paltry ideological guide,
The mountain-army crosess the sea in an expidition joint.
As the
Hindu troops sweep through the Middle East avenging former
wrongs, the Russian army in the Caucasus mountains will link
up with them. The paltry ideological guide who will be
abandoned is Karl Marx. The sea to be crossed is either the
Mediterranean or the Black Sea.
Inevitably,
the question crops up Are such things possible? Here is a
convincing reply to prove the seer's clairvoyance
Quatrain
77, Century III
In October seventeen twenty-seven,
The Afghans and Turkey will score,
Areas lost by Iran, Christians beseech heaven,
Against Moslems shedding innocent gore.
This event
took place exactly 172 years after the publication of the
forecast by Nostradamus in 1555. An agreement was made by
Afghanistan and Turkey in October 1727, dividing up Iran.
Christian communities which came under Turkish misrule were
brutally treated in Georgia and Armenia (both now in U.S.S.R).
Nostradamus had never been out of France expect for a brief
visit to next-door Italy. Yet he foresaw what the Afghans
and the Turks would do in Iran in October 1727! This is
truly an amazing prediction by any reckoning. None of the
parties concerned had ever heard of Nostradamus.
Let us now
return to the Hindu holy-war.
Quatrain
59, Century III
The empire of Islam by Hindus overthrown,
The majority of Moslems will succumb,
To radio-active fall-out by India blown,
Making Muhammad forever silent and numb.
Interestingly,
in his prose-introduction to the "Centuries", the
seer dwells at some length on the destruction of Islam and
Mecca. The city will be smashed up in such a way that all
those who enter it will sicken and die. The only
interpretation of this forecast is that there will be
radioactive fall-out in the area. Nostradamus declares that
the Hindus will be engaged in the task of revenge for seven
years from the seventh month of 1999. Intrestingly, even
Islamic texts predict doom in the 15th century of their
religion.
After the
destruction (annihilation would be the exact word) of
Islamic power, the Hindu leader will march on the Europe.
Both Egypt and Israel will rally to his standard.
The Hindu
leader with Hebrew leaning,
Marches on Rome and its allies,
His ships sail from Libyan mooring,
The Bible-chanting clergy dies.
This
tremendous onslaught will be bloody. In yet another forecast
Nostradamus remarks that the Hindu army will lose 2,50,000
men. But victory will be attained. It will be decisive.
Pressage 40
Rome of
seven hills hit by calamities quick,
Storm, deluge, epidemic and consuming fire,
The Hindus give Europe a colossal kick,
And conquer it with revengeful ire.
The
atrocities and fraudulent conversions by Christian
missionaries will thus be avenged in the total destruction
of Rome. The Pope and his canting clergy will seek refuge in
Paris. They will be assisted by a Scottish leader who is
called Hadrian in the "Centuries". This is a
reference to Hadrian's Wall to isolate Scotland built by the
Roman emperor Hadrian, 1,800 years ago.
Hitherto
there has been no mention of America in this narrative.
Nostradamus mentions it by name only once. It is time to
consider the implications of his incredible forecast
Quatrain
66, Century X
The British
leader by America sent,
Will ruin Scotland by a clever plan,
Boss Reb's foes will be sorely rem,
And damn him as unchristian man.
It has been
already noted that the Scottish leader nick-named Hadrian
will join hands with the Pope against the Hindus. Amazingly,
the United States will side with India in the war ! The
Americans will nominate a leader in London who is
intriguingly called Boss Reb. He will be a veritable fox in
cunning. He will defeat to Scots thoroughly and bring down
the Christian alliance around the Pope.
Judging by
the "Centuries", the climateric war of 1999 will
find India, Russia and America ranged on one side as allies.
Is this at all likely? For answer, let us turn to the famous
American seeress Jeane Dixon, whose forecasts have been
collated in a best-selling book. Its title is "The Gift
of Prophecy", authored by Ruth Montgomery.
Jeane Dixon
corectly foresaw the Partition of India in 1947, and the
assassination of Mahatma Gandhi shortly afterwards. She was
frequently consulted by American presidents. She told
President Roosevelt in 1944 that America and Russia would be
in alliance in 1999 against China. At that time (1944)
Communists had not yet seized power in Peking. But in 1949
they were victorious. Incidentally, Jeane Dixon forecast
Sanjay Gandhi's death in 1980.
At present,
America and Russia seem set on a collision course. Can they
ever make up their differences? Recent history proves that
such about-turns are not impossible. Only 15 years ago,
China and America were enemies. Today, they are allies. It
would be utterly unwise to pooh pooh even bizarre
possibilities. Truth is often stronger than fiction.
While the
America take over the government of Britain through their
nominee Boss Reb, the Hindu leader will advance upon Paris,
where the Pope is holed up.
Quatrain
29, Century II
The Hindu hero will march from his base,
Crossing the Apennines to enter France,
Conquering the clouds and seas ice,
All enemies will fall before his lance.
Paris will
be taken after a fierce siege. Hadrian will be killed in a
vain defence. At this juncture, Nostradamus makes a curious
abservation. He predicts that a tree in the centre of Parish
will crash down. What tree? Could it be the Eiffel Tower,
built more than 300 years after his death? From a distance
the Eiffel Tower rather resembles a giant oak-tree.
What of the
date of the beginning of the titanic fight which will send
India on a holy war? Nostradamus provides a precise answer
Quatrain
72, Century X
Bearing upon him the Mongol-sign,
The great king of terror jumps from heaven,
In July nineteen ninenty-nine,
Mars to a just war will be driven.
The
classical name for the Chinese emperor was "Son of
Heaven". A Chinese leader will therefore, launch a
terrible war in July (Nostradamus says seventh month) of
1999 in imitation of Genghis Khan, the great Mongol
conqueror. Mars is the seer's nick-name for a French
statesman who will resist China in 1999. He will be exiled
from Paris till the Hindu army rescues him and restores him.
What is one
to make of the predictions of Nostradamus? Will they come
true? The seer himself admits that the "Centuries"
were written in a mystical trance. The conscious mind did
not produce them.
When it is
remembered that more than 800 of the forecasts have already
been fulfilled in the last 400 years, skepticism seems
unwarranted and inept. In quatrain 42, Century X, the seer
predicted that the British empire would collapse in 1942. In
that year, the Quit India movement gave the death-blow to
British imperialism. What makes the forecast truly
breathtaking is the fact that there was no Britain and no
empire when Nostradamus published his predictions in 1555.
England joined up with Scotland to form Britain only in
1603. The battle of Plassey was fought in 1757, heralding
British rule in India. Nostradamus saw far beyond both these
events to forecast the end of British hegemony in 1942. This
alone should make clear that the French-Jewish seer
possessed divine provision.
When
Nostradamus published the "Centuries" in 1555, the
title referred only to the arrangement of quatrains in
groups of 100 years. It was not an allusion to the hundreds
of years that the predictions actually span. There are 10
centuries in all, making a total of about 1000 quatrains.
But Century (7) is incomplete with only 44 verses. The
short-fall is adequately made up by additional quatrains
include later. Ever since their first(1555) appearance, the
Centuries have been a perennial best-seller.
The first
English translation of Nostradamus's great work was made in
1672 by The odore Garencieres. The second translation came
in 1715 from the pen of a priest who called himself only by
the initials D.D. The next translation was in 1891 when
Charles Ward made a scholarly attempt to interpret the
often-obscure quatrains. Ward's translation was reissued in
America in 1940 by the Modern Library. At that time, the
Second World War had been started by Hitler.
Hitler and
his Nazi Germany made a clever attempt to misuse Nostradamus
for propaganda purposes. A New edition of Centuries was
printed in Germany giving a totally false interpretation of
his prophecies. But Nostradamus himself had not the
slightest doubt about Hitler's ulimate fate. He predicted
that the Nazis would be annihilated (Quatrain 77, Century
VIII) after murdering countless Jews.
In 1982,
President Mitterand of France let it be known that he was an
avid reader of the Centuries. In 1983, the well-known actor
Orson Welles produced an immensely popular American
television show on the forecasts of Nostradamus. There have
ben so many English translations of the Centuires in the
recent past, that the British journalist Taya Zinkin wryly
remarked that Nostradamus would top any popularity poll.
Mrs. Zinkin is no stranger to India. She spent many years in
Delhi as a correspondent.
Nostradamus
predicts a glorious future for India. Yet he is hardly known
to our people.
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