A Zoroastrian

A statement like the one above is usually received with a blank look almost everywhere outside India; in Europe and America. Zoroaster is the Anglicized name of the Prophet Zarathustra. Now a few more bells start ringing. The more well read and erudite recall that masterly tome by Nietzsche "Thus Spake Zarathustra", where he expounds the theme of Man as Superman. Aficionados of Classical music identify with Richard Strauss’ opus of the same name. Movie buffs have heard it too; only they would recognize it as the theme from "2001: A Space Odyssey" – and perhaps as the music that used to open live Elvis concerts.

So who is this Zoroaster? He was arguably the very first prophet who preached the concept of a monotheistic religion; of one God. He exposed the pagan gods of the Egyptians and Romans and Greeks for the soulless idols they were.

Zoroaster walked the earth a long time ago; so long ago, in fact, that historians cannot even agree on the date; or even the century. Estimates of his date of birth range from 4000 BC to 1000 BC. Zoroastrianism, the monotheistic religion he founded, is the oldest in recorded history. Zoroastrianism predates Christianity and Islam, and many historians say it influenced those faiths and cross-fertilized Judaism as well, with its doctrines of one God, a dualistic universe of good and evil and a final day of judgment. The holy scriptures of Zoroastrianism, known as the Avesta, speak of individual judgment, heaven and hell, the future resurrection of the body and life everlasting for the soul.

Zoroastrianism was the state religion during the thirteen centuries of the Persian Empire (559 BC to 651 AD) that pre-dated Alexander the Great and outlasted him by almost a thousand years. It, along with Judaism, was the most prominent world religion at the time of Jesus. Many historians have deduced that the Magi, who anointed Jesus at his birth, were Zoroastrian priests.

Zoroaster lived and preached in the Inner Asian steppes, a region encompassing the Western part of Iran and the Eastern part of Afghanistan. He is said to have received his divine revelations directly from the one God, whom he referred to as Ahura Mazda; and his archangels, known as Amesha Spentas. The holy scriptures, collectively known as the Gathas are revered by Zoroastrians as the Word of God, directly revealed to His Prophet.

Zoroastrians believe that Ahura Mazda is "all-good", that He created the world and all good things, including mankind. He is opposed by Anghra Mainyu, the "destructive spirit" (or the devil), who is the embodiment of evil. Zoroaster exhorted his followers to constantly fight against evil in any form. He revealed that a cosmic battle is waging between Ahura Mazda and Anghra Mainyu, that will ultimately result in the destruction of evil. Shades of Armageddon and Judgment Day, perhaps? His followers live by three simple tenets: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds.

Zoroastrians once dominated an area stretching from what is now Rome and Greece to India and Russia; and their numbers were between 40 and 50 million. Soon after the advent of Mohammed, the mighty Persian Empire was finally toppled, 1400 years ago, by the invading Arab armies. The Zoroastrian population was decimated by massacres, persecution and conversions to Islam. Seven boatloads of Zoroastrian refugees fled Iran and landed on the coast of India in 936 AD. Their descendants, known as Parsis, built Mumbai, formerly Bombay, into the world capital of Zoroastrianism. Bombay is the place of my birth. Those refugees are my ancestors.

There is an interesting story (fable?) about that first landfall on the West coast of India. Apparently, the local Hindu king was less than pleased – and not a little alarmed – at the sudden advent of these tall, fair Aryans. The leader of the refugees, a High Priest, assured the king that his people would not harm, or interfere with the native population. To illustrate his point, he asked for a glass of milk and a few spoonfuls of sugar. As the sugar dissolved, he explained that – in the same manner – his followers would be unobtrusive and blend into the local population.

The Zoroastrian religion is full of joy. A short daily prayer, Ashem Vohu, says happiness comes to those who give happiness to others. One main reason I happily embrace the faith I was born in is that it has very few strictures or taboos. Unlike the Torah and the Koran, the Avesta is not a detailed guide laying down rigid rules for daily living – rules which can be manipulated to suit and justify a certain ideology, as the terrorists are tragically doing today with their perverted version of Islam. Essentially, the Avesta exhorts Zoroastrinas to be the best they can be; do minimum harm to others; give to charity whatever they can afford; and, most importantly, fight evil – whatever form it takes – wherever they encounter it. Unlike the fundamental strain of Islam and some puritanical sects of Christianity, it does not frown on healthy enjoyment; it actively encourages it. There are no dress codes. Zoroastrianism does not subscribe to the view that lustful feelings in men are so uncontrollable that the mere sight of an unveiled woman would let them loose. There are hardly any dietary restrictions.

Zoroastrians are sometimes mistakenly referred to as "fire worshipers". It is true that the focal point of our temples is a large urn containing a big fire that is kept continually burning by feeding it sticks of sandalwood. It is said that the original refugees, during the exodus to India – lasting several weeks – kept the sacred fire continuously burning through the power of their prayers alone. Fire is regarded as a great purifier and a means of communicating with Ahura Mazda; the fire itself is not an object of worship. In fact, Zoroastrians have enormous respect for the environment and the elements: earth, wind, fire and water.

It is this respect for the elements which leads to the Zoroastrian ritual for disposal of the dead. It is a practice unique to the religion; and one some may consider a little barbaric. But there is a method to the apparent madness. Zoroastrians believe the physical body, after death, is an empty shell devoid of a soul; and one that, hopefully, will be resurrected in the next life. The dead body is, in fact, subject to decay and, therefore, a source of pollution. Burying it would pollute the earth: similarly, cremating it would pollute the sacred fire. Hence, the ancients came up with their own eco-friendly system. They left their dead, uncovered, on the slopes of mountains; to be devoured by wild animals and vultures. That way, the body did not pollute any of the elements and, in its terminal phase, was of some use to living creatures. Nowadays, with most Zoroastrians living in cities, the old ritual has had to adapt itself. Wild animals are hard to find. The modern practice is to leave the bodies in large open wells, popularly known as Towers of Silence; there for the flesh to be picked clean by vultures and the rays of the sun. The bones are periodically removed and buried.

Zoroastrian priests are not required to be celibate. In fact, a normal family life is encouraged. Neither are they expected to immerse themselves in the holy scriptures, 24 hours a day. Remember, Zoroastrianism is a very free religion. Actually, most Zoroastrian priests also have a day job. A typical case would resemble that of Kersy Antia, a psychologist practicing in Illinois. In his private life, Mr. Antia dons a long white robe, slips a veil over his face and goes to work as a Zoroastrian priest, performing weddings and ceremonies initiating seven to nine year-old Zoroastrians into the faith (something like a Bar Mitzvah or a Communion).

There is a palpable panic among Zoroastrians today —in India, the United States and around the world — that they are fighting the extinction of their faith. From a peak of almost 50 million at the heyday of the Persian Empire, their global population has dwindled to 190,000 at most, and perhaps as few as 124,000. The majority of Zoroastrians still reside in India, but about 11,000 Zoroastrians live in the United States, 6,000 in Canada, 5,000 in England, 2,700 in Australia and 2,200 in the Persian Gulf nations. The Zoroastrians’ mobility and adaptability has contributed to their demographic crisis. They assimilate and intermarry, virtually disappearing into their adopted cultures. And since the faith encourages opportunities for women, many Zoroastrian women are working professionals who, like many other professional women, have few children or none.

Despite their shrinking numbers, Zoroastrians are divided over whether to accept intermarried families and converts; and what defines a Zoroastrian. An effort to create a global organizing body fell apart two years ago after some priests accused the organizers of embracing "fake converts" and diluting traditions. The orthodox elements within the community feel that the religion is not universal and is ethnic in nature, and that it should be kept within the tribe. The very tenets of Zoroastrianism could be feeding its demise. Zoroastrians believe in free will, so in matters of religion they do not believe in compulsion. They do not proselytize. They can pray at home instead of going to a temple. While there are priests, there is no hierarchy to set policy, although some conservative elements take it upon themselves, rather pompously, to dictate what is good for the religion. Fortunately, they are in a minority. Moreover, despite, or because of, the high intermarriage rate, some Zoroastrian priests refuse to accept converts or to perform initiation ceremonies for adopted children or the children of intermarried couples, especially when the father is not Zoroastrian.

Although the collective picture is bleak, most individual Zoroastrians appear to be thriving. They are well-educated and well-traveled professionals, earning incomes that place them in the middle and upper classes of the countries they reside in.

So are people of my faith doomed to become extinct as the dodo within the next 200 years? It is possible, of course, but I have not lost hope. Those seven boatloads who arrived in India probably thought they wouldn’t last long either – they were only a few hundred, after all. But, 1400 years later, we are still around and thriving – albeit in reduced numbers. Zoroastrianism is a happy religion; and happiness is what makes life worth living. I believe we will prevail.

Living Without Blame - The Way of Peace

There are circumstances that arise, today, in which it can feel entirely justifiable to blame others, both on the collective level and on the personal, and yet the energy that we give to blame is not conducive to producing any effect other than to cast us even further into a depth of discouragement and despair.

Blame is the ego's way of protecting itself from feeling helpless. It arises in situations of frustration and deprivation, and instead of allowing us to feel grief-stricken or filled with loss or sorrow in a way that would help us heal, blame creates an active component of feeling – a sense that there is something we can do about the distressing circumstances we are dealing with. By engaging with blame, we tell ourselves that we are taking an active step in asking that justice prevail, or that others who are the cause of our distress become different.

Here, it is important to separate two things: the desire that circumstances that cause pain, suffering, or deprivation be different, and the energy of anger or blame which we bring to the situation. For this energy, instead of being useful to us in a larger sense, ends up using us so that we do not see the full picture of how to work within the situation or what changes within ourselves the situation might call for.

This is the truer version of life's opportunity in relation to situations of deprivation or pain – that we find within ourselves a willingness to trust and to align with the positive in life rather than the negative, by being willing to absorb our own pain, and instead of sending back into the world more pain that others can receive from us, to hold our own pain within ourselves and send back good instead.

This attitude may feel like it is beyond us, especially in instances where pain seems too great or deprivation or loss too severe. At such times, it is necessary to pray for an enlargement of the heart so that it can become big enough to hold what needs to be held, knowing that it is possible with Divine help. For this is the challenge of deprivation and sacrifice, not that we accept it in the sense of doing nothing to change the external conditions that may have led to it, but that we become able to find a measure of enlargement within ourselves so that we can bear pain without creating more of it for others. We do this not because we wish to suffer, but because we are identified with the lot of all in life, not just with our own lot.

The expansion of the heart in relation to its capacity to hold loss and sorrow and its desire to convert these into something that will be of benefit to the world, has a transmutative effect on the feeling of anger or blame. That is, it removes the need for these, and instead gives us a capacity to live freely and in peace with whatever circumstances life brings to us. Such a perspective does not create passivity as some would fear, but reflects a determination to be a force for good in the world and one that will be of benefit others.

In addition to this motive, another arises from the fact that blame and anger take from us precious energy and focus that would otherwise be able to contribute to the forward motion of our own lives in immediate ways – in decision-making, in planning, in imagining, and in just being able to be in the present in an ease-full way. Often, hidden from our waking consciousness, yet active, the negative energies that we hold within ourselves are disturbances to our own sense of peace. Sometimes we can feel them directly as eruptive anger or as another disturbing emotion. At other times, they operate as a wound below the surface of perception that cannot be healed because it has been left unattended.

The place of peace lies in the freedom to choose which emotional currents we will permit in our emotional house, and which we will leave behind. Those who seek peace must seek also to let go of the desire for anything that would conflict with this goal. The mind may not know how, but the heart knows the way. To begin to create peace within the heart, it is necessary to lay down one's arms, metaphorically speaking, and to determine to live in a way that is blame-free. When the heart truly desires this, the soul will find a way to teach the lessons of peace and the mind will progressively learn to accommodate.

May all beings who seek peace in the world find rest in the knowledge that it already lies within them, waiting to be found.

The Bible--Facts

The Holy Bible contains 66 books written by 40 different authors over approximately 1,500 years. The King James Bible contains 1,189 chapters, 31,101 verses, 783,137 words, and 3,566,480 letters. The Bible was the first book printed by Johannes Gutenburg, the inventor of the modern printing press in 1455-57. The Old Testament was divided into verses in 1448 and the New Testament was divided into verses in 1551. The longest book in the Bible is Psalms. The shortest book is 3 John. The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119 and the shortest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 117. The Bible is the best selling book in the world, with the total number of Bibles sold or given away each day estimated at 168,000 (Wycliffe International). A recent survey by Barna Research Group revealed that nearly 92% of American households own at least one Bible.

Bible Verses
Bible verses allow the story and facts of the Bible to be separated into practical tools for study and application. They allow the reader or teacher to isolate the meaning stated by the authors. This, in turn, facilitates translation and understanding of the subject matter. For example, Genesis 1:3 states: "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." The next verse, Genesis 1:4, follows: "And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness." A Bible verse usually contains a single sentence. Sometimes a verse contains two or more sentences. The longest verse in the Bible is Esther 8:9 (78 words in the King James). The middle verse in the Bible is Psalm 118:8: "It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man." Using Bible verses has become a popular and effective way to apply God's will to practical living. As snippets of God's Word, Bible verses form the basis of church sermons, Bible studies, and reference tools in teaching.

Bible Verses--The Power

Bible verses clearly communicate the message of God throughout the Bible. While liberal scholars and New Age proponents increasingly dispute the literal meaning of the Bible (and even God's existence), the verses of the Bible are clear and concise expressions of God's enduring truth. A powerful example of this type of verse is the way to salvation through John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Another solid truth is the importance of persevering as expressed in James 1:12: "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him." A final declaration of the power of scripture is found at Hebrews 4:12: "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Bible verses challenge people to make the right choices and think about their actions. Bible verses are God's gift of communication for His people to understand and follow. Bible verses inspire us, comfort us, and convict us. Bible verses reveal God's love and bring everlasting hope.

When you sit in front of Baba to meet Him,
Don’t worry about the wrong doings in the past
Or have un-necessary expectations about future
did not / could not do my last year’s home work...
Can i do it this year?”
No such questions / doubts—
Just be there.
He’ll fill you with whatever you need.
He is fully there for you. Just for you.
He says “You are mine, I love you for what you are—
Not for what you should have / could have done.”
No more, no less—
Just be there.
Past is gone, future is yet to come,
why worry about ‘your worthiness’ or ‘unworthiness’?
He is willing to give to you.
Don’t obstruct the flow with your own doubts.
He never, never, never doubts your worthiness.
He is always there to give to you—
Just be there.
You’ll get it all and in full.
are worthy in his eyes at all times and in all states,
So don’t worry.
He is always there for you. Just for you.
Just be there.
He’ll fill your apron with what all you’ll ever need
Just be there.
Guilt, fear, doubt, worthless feelings, inferiority...
Have no place in front of Him.
You are all His and He is all yours—
Just be there.
He came all the way just for you,
So just be there.
That’s all He expects from you—
Just be there.
He doesn’t want anything from you,
So don’t worry about having to give Him something.
Remember He has come to give you,
Not just something,
But everything you’ll ever need.
So to receive all that fully
Just be there.
You’ll get everything fully and successfully—
Just be there.
Don’t worry about last year’s homework
Or this year’s work to come—
Just be there.
He is not a whip-wielding teacher.
He is your sweet father...
So just be there.
He does not ask your progress report
Because He doesn’t need it.
Just be there.
FOR GOD’S SAKE JUST BE THERE!

brother bala

The Entropy Law

The current state and the future of the world

In Physics, there are two laws, which deserve to be ranked as the supreme law. These are the first and the second law of Thermodynamics. Albert Einstein, world’s most eminent scientist, made the following observation about these laws: "The more impressive a Theory, the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended its range of applicability." As stated in the above observation, the laws of Thermodynamics have a very wide range of applicability. These can be applied to Cosmology, History, Economics, Development of Institutions, Military, Nuclear fission and to almost everything. It would therefore, be of great advantage to know briefly what these laws are and how these explain the present state of the world and what they predict about the future

The first and the second laws of thermodynamics:

The first law of Thermodynamics is the "law of conservation". It says that energy can never be created or destroyed; it can only be transformed from one form to another form. For example, when we use petrol or gasoline in the engine of our car, most part of it gets transformed into work, some of it changes into heat and some part goes out as exhaust products.

Now, in relation to this first law, it is very important to consider two things. One is that the shape, texture and movement of everything is made up of energy. Not only gasoline, coal or kerosene oil is made up of energy but rather human body, an automobile and a candle also are embodiments of various concentrations and transformations of energy. When a candle or a car is made, it is made of energy that has been gathered from somewhere else. It has not been created but transformed. The second important thing to be considered in this connection is that, when the candle is burnt, its energy does not get destroyed but is transformed from one state into another so that the total content of energy in the universe remains constant. So, it is rightly said that "there is nothing new under the sun."

The second law of thermodynamics says that every time energy is transformed from one state to another, there is a loss in the amount of that form of energy, which becomes available to perform work of some kind. The loss in the amount of ‘available energy’ is known as ‘entropy’. For example, if we burn a piece of coal, even then the total amount of energy remains the same but, due to the process of burning, some part of coal is transformed into sulphur-dioxide and other gases which go out and spread into space. Now, this part of the coal which has been transformed into sulfur dioxide and exhausts cannot be reborn to get the same work out of it. This kind of loss, wastage or penalty, is called 'Entropy'.

The second law of Thermodynamics explains that the total entropy in the world is constantly increasing. An entropy increase, therefore, means a decrease in ‘available energy’. Further, not only does available energy decrease every time something occurs in this world but the unavailable energy-form works as pollution.

Thus, according to the second law of Thermodynamics, the world is moving towards a dissipated state and the pollution in the world is constantly increasing. Furthermore, "entropy", (i.e. the ‘unavailable’ energy or pollution) in the world always tends towards a "maximum" – says the German physicist, Rudolf Claussius (who first coined the term ‘entropy’)- Rudolf Claussius further says that, in a closed system, energy moves from a higher level of concentration to a lower level as heat always flows from a hot to a cold body so that, we find that, ultimately, they have reached a stage where there is no longer any difference in energy level. This is known as ‘the equilibrium state’. This is the state where entropy has reached the maximum. i.e. where no longer ‘free energy’ is available for work. For example, when water going over a dam falls into a river, its energy can be used to generate electricity, but, once it reaches the river level, it has no ‘free’ or ‘available’ energy. Its energy is now ‘bound’ energy and it is now in the state of equilibrium.

Now the important fact that needs be pointed out in this context is that the earth is a closed system in relation to the universe; in other words, it exchanges energy but not matter with its surroundings. And the universe itself also is a closed system in the sense that it does not have any flow of energy from any other universe. The amount of energy in the universe has been fixed since the beginning of time and will remain fixed till the end of time. Such being the case, the two laws of thermodynamics mean, in their final analysis, that the fixed endowment of terrestrial matter that makes up the earth and the mountains is continually dissipating and what appear ‘renewable sources’ are really non-renewable sources ultimately. In Sir James Jean’s words, "The universe is like a clock which is running down", which so far as science knows, no one ever winds up. It is at present a partially wound up clock, which must at some time in the past have been wound up in some manner unknown to us. So, the universe is like a clock, running down, whose entropy is increasing continually. Even a farmer understands that, even with constant sunshine, it is impossible to grow the same amount of grass on the same spot year after year till eternity.

Now, these facts of science, based on law of Thermodynamics, are well established. In the past, there have been many attempts by well-known scientists to challenge these laws but their attempts ended up in strengthening the position of the second law.

Another aspect of Entropy Law: (from ordered to disordered state):

Besides the energy moving from available to unavailable states and from high concentration to low concentration, there is another aspect of the second law of Thermodynamics. Entropy Law states that all energy, in an isolated system, moves from an ordered to a disordered state. The state in which energy-concentration is highest and available energy is maximum, i.e. where entropy is minimum, is also the most ordered state. In Indian scriptures, that state is called Satogun. In contrast to this, the maximum entropy state, where available energy has been highly dissipated state, in Indian scriptures, it is known as Tamogun state.

The above is in accordance with our everyday experience of the world around us. As things are let on their own, they do tend to spontaneously move to more and more dis-ordered states. If we leave our office unattended for a period, it becomes more and more dis-orderly. Another aspect of the law is that whenever we make an attempt to reverse the entropy increase, it is only done by increasing the overall entropy of the surrounding environment. The scientists Angsist and Hepler say: "each local, man-made or machine-made entropy-decrease is accompanied by a greater increase in entropy of the surroundings, thereby maintaining the required increase in total entropy.

Now, this has very great implication for the society. In practical terms, it means that the society deteriorates and becomes disorganised gradually. There is degeneration in its moral force, its spiritual stamina, the vigor of its character, the effectiveness of its character, the effectiveness of its religion and the sense of law and order. In Hindu scriptures, it has, therefore, been said that the moral and spiritual energy of the society goes on degenerating so that, ultimately, it reaches a stage of maximum entropy when God has to intervene to reverse the entropy and to bring about Satyuga or Golden Age when all material things have maximum energy-concentration, i.e. are Sato-pradhan and the souls also have maximum ‘available’ moral and spiritual energy.

According to Dharma, the souls have originally 16 degrees(100%) level of energy-concentraton and gradually due to entropy, the energy level goes down so that when there is maximum entropy and the level of energy-concentration is hardly one or two degrees, then God, the Highest Point-source of Spiritual energy, reverses the spiritual entropy by means of Godly Knowledge and Raj Yoga and the material entropy gets reversed by means of fission of nuclear weapons, natural calamities etc. so that the earth, the waters, the air and their products get again the maximum energy-concentration or satopradhan stage. In other words, when the society has passed through its four stages of Satyuga, Tretayuga, Dwapur Yuga and Kaliyuga and is in the fifth, i.e. the Sangam Yuga (confluence age), then God descends to reverse the entropy.

The need for God’s act in such a situation is evident because, according to the Entropy Law, in a closed system, entropy increase cannot be reversed without increasing the entropy in the surroundings and therefore, in real terms, an outside source of energy is required to raise the energy concentration without lowering the energy level in the surroundings.

It would be of interest to the readers to know that the Greeks also considered history as a process of continual degradation. The Greek historian-Hesiod, has described these five ages as the Golden, Silver, Brass, iron and Heroic Age. The Greeks believed that each of the succeeding Age was more degraded. The Golden Age was the highest. It was a period of affluence and peace. The Belief was: "In the beginning, there was a golden race of immortal men, who lived like gods, with hearts free from care, without labour and sorrow. Pitiful old age did not await them, but they were ever the same in strength of hand and foot. When they died, it was as though they were overcome by sleep. All good things were theirs and the grain harvest was yielded by the bountiful earth of her own accord--abundantly and ungrudgingly – while they lived in peace and goodwill upon their lands.

The following is what has been said about the Iron Age: "For now, in these latter days is the Race of Iron. Never by days shall they rest from travail and sorrow, and never by night from the web of the vices. The father shall not be of one mind with the children, nor the children with the father, nor the guest with the host that receives them, nor friends with friends. Parents shall swiftly age and swiftly be dishonoured. The righteous man or the good man or he that keeps his oath shall not find favour, but they shall rather honour the doer of wrong and the right shall rest in might of hand--and truth shall be no more."

The Greeks believed not only in inevitable process of decay during the each subsequent age of history but, they also believed that, finally the universe would approach chaos and then God would intervene once again and restore the original conditions of moral and material perfection, so that the process would then begin once again. Thus, they did not believe in the evolution of man from the state of chaos or disorder to a state of civilisation and development but from a state of perfection to a state of moral degeneration and also in repetition of the world cycle.
Similarly, the Romans also originally believed in a process of continual degradation. In Roman mythology, it is said: "Time depreciates the value of the world." The Christian view of history is also almost the same. Though they abandoned the Greek concept of cycles--they believe that, originally, God created man in His own image and sin entered into the world later.

A short Synopsis of the Golden Age

Year 0037—Golden Age begins.

• 1st LaxmiNarayan of the Golden Age—
• Coronation of Prince Krishna and Princess Radha.
• Subjects approx.(9,00,000).
• Take 84 births in 5000 years.(will not embrace or get converted into any other religion and will be known as Hindus and propagate Hinduism in copper and iron ages).
• 1st Garden of Heaven--Full 16 celestial degrees pure (=100% Divinity).

after 150 years

• 2nd LaxmiNarayan + Subjects are born as twin children of 1st LaxmiNarayan and his subjects.
• Take 83 births in 5000 years.
• 2nd Garden of heaven—153/4 celestial degrees pure
• Base souls for Islam Religion—it means that 2nd LaxmiNarayan and his subjects will be instrumental in establishing the Islam Religion and will eventually get converted into that religion after 2500 years.

after 150 years

• 3rd LaxmiNarayan +his subjects -- born as twin children of 2nd LaxmiNarayan and his subjects.
• Take 82 births in 5000 years
• 3rd Garden of Heaven—151/2 celestial degrees pure
• Base souls for Buddhist Religion—it means that 3rd LaxmiNarayan and his subjects will be instrumental in establishing the Buddhist Religion and will eventually get converted into that Religion after 2500 years.

after 150 years

• 4th LaxmiNarayan +his subjects are born as twin children of 3rd LaxmiNarayan and his subjects.
• Take 81 births in 5000 years.
• 4th Garden of Heaven—151/4 celestial degrees pure
• Base souls for Christian Religion—it means that 4th LaxmiNarayan and his subjects will be instrumental in establishing the Christian Religion and will eventually get converted into that Religion after 2500 years

after 150 years

• 5th LaxmiNarayan +his subjects -- born as twin children of 4th LaxmiNarayan and his subjects.
• Take 80 births in 5000 years.
• 5th Garden of heaven--15 celestial degrees pure--
• Base souls for Sanyas Religion—it means that 5th LaxmiNarayan and his subjects will be instrumental in establishing the Sanyas Religion and will eventually get converted into that Religion after 2500 years.

after 150 years

• 6th LaxmiNarayan +his subjects -- born as twin children of 5th LaxmiNarayan and his subjects.
• Take 79 births in 5000 years.
• 6th Garden of Heaven—143/4 celestial degrees pure
• Base souls for Muslim Religion—it means that 6th LaxmiNarayan and his subjects will be instrumental in establishing the Muslim Religion and will eventually get converted into that Religion after 2500 years.

after 150 years

• 7th LaxmiNarayan +his subjects -- born as twin children of 6th LaxmiNarayan and his subjects.
• Take 78 births in 5000 years.
• 7th Garden of Heaven—141/2 celestial degrees pure
• Base souls for Sikh Religion—it means that 7th LaxmiNarayan and his subjects will be instrumental in establishing the Sikh Religion and will eventually get converted into that Religion after 2500 years.

after 150 years

• 8th LaxmiNarayan +his subjects --born as twin children of 7th LaxmiNarayan and his subjects.
• Take 77 births in 5000 years.
• 8th Garden of Heaven—141/4 celestial degrees pure
• Base souls for Arya Samaj Religion—it means that 8th LaxmiNarayan and his subjects will be instrumental in establishing the Arya Samaj Religion and will eventually get converted into that Religion after 2500 years.

Scientists have known for some time that the Earth's magnetic field is fading.

Like a Kryptonite-challenged Superman, its strength has steadily and mysteriously waned, leaving parts of the planet vulnerable to increased radiation from space.
Some satellites already feel the effects.
What is uncertain is whether the weakened field is on the way to a complete collapse and a reversal that would flip the North and South Poles.
Compasses pointing North would then point South.
It is not a matter of whether it will happen, but when, said scientists who presented the latest research on the subject at a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
But when is hard to pinpoint. The dipole reversal pattern is erratic.
"We can have periods without reversals for many millions of years, and we can have four or five reversals within one million years," said Yves Gallet, from Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France, who studies the palaeomagnetic record and estimates that the current decay started 2,000 years ago.

Flip or flop

Over the last century and a half, since monitoring began, scientists have measured a 10% decline in the dipole.
At the current rate of decline it would take 1,500 to 2,000 years to disappear.
SEAFLOOR RECORDER

As molten rock rises, spreads out and cools, magnetised minerals record field direction
Over millions of years, the seafloor rocks retain a 'barcode' of pole reversals
These pole reversal events may take perhaps 10,000 years to complete
The last major pole flip appears to have been about 780,000 years ago A particular weakness in the field has been observed off the coast of Brazil in the so-called Southern Atlantic Anomaly. Here, eccentricities in the Earth's core have caused a "dip" in the field, leaving it 30% weaker than elsewhere.
The extra dose of radiation creates electronic glitches in satellites and spacecraft that fly through it. Even the Hubble telescope has been affected.
Magnetic reversals were always preceded by weakened magnetic fields, said Dr Gallet, but not all weakened fields bring on a flip-flop.
The Earth's invisible shield could also grow back in strength. "Then sometime, maybe 10,000 years from now, the dipole will decay again and that will lead to a reversal," said Harvard physicist Jeremy Bloxham.
The theme was recently taken up by Hollywood in the movie The Core, in which the Earth's core mysteriously stops spinning, effectively turning off the electromagnetic field.
The movie is nonsense, scientists told BBC News Online, except that the Earth's magnetic field is generated by activity deep inside it.