Subject: [world-vedic] Vedic Prophecies of Indonesia
From: vrnparker <vrnparker@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:53:21 +0200 (CEST)
To: vediculture@yahoogroups.com

Sabdapalon was a priest and adviser to Brawijaya V, the last ruler of 
the Hindu empire Majapahit in Java. He is also said to have cursed 
his king upon the conversion of the latter to Islam in 1478. 

Sabdapalon then promised to return, after 500 years and at a time of 
widespread political corruption and natural disasters, to sweep Islam 
from the island and restore Hindu-Javanese religion and civilization. 
Some of the first new Hindu temples built in Java were indeed 
completed around 1978, for example Pura Blambangan in the regency of 
Banyuwangi.

As the prophesies foretold, Mt. Sumeru erupted around the same time. 
All this is taken as evidence of the accuracy of Sabdapalon's 
predictions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabdapalon

Ratu Joyoboyo, also Sri Mapanji Jayabaya or Jayabhaya reigned over 
the kingdom of Kediri in East Java from 1135 to 1157 AD. He reunified 
Java after a split that occurred with the death of his predecessor 
Airlangga. He is also remembered for his just and prosperous rule, 
and reputed to have been an incarnation of the Hindu deity Vishnu. He 
is the archetypal 'just king' (ratu adil) who is reborn during the 
dark age of reversal (jaman edan) at the end of each cosmic cycle to 
restore social justice, order, and harmony in the world.

His name is mentioned in the manggala (prologue) of the famous 
kakawin (Old Javanese poetry in Indian meteres) Bharatayuddha as the 
patron of the two poets; mpu Sedah and mpu Panuluh who wrote this 
work.

When Japan took Java, in the first weeks of 1942, Indonesians danced 
in the streets, welcoming the Japanese army as the fulfillment of a 
prophecy ascribed to Joyoboyo, who foretold the day when white men 
would one day establish their rule on Java and tyrannize the people 
for many years – but they would be driven out by the arrival of 
yellow men from the north. These yellow men, Joyoboyo predicted, 
would remain for one crop cycle, and after that Java would be freed 
from foreign domination. To most of the Javanese, Japan was a 
liberator: the prophecy had been fulfilled. The Japanese freed 
Indonesian nationalists from Dutch prisons and hired them as civil 
servants and administrators. In the waning days of 1944, however, it 
was clear that Japan could not win the war. The Japanese officially 
granted Indonesia its independence on 9 August 1945, and the 
commander of Japan's Southeast Asian forces appointed future 
President Sukarno as chairman of the preparatory committee for 
Indonesian independence. As one account of Indonesian history puts 
it, "With the minor exception that three crops had been harvested, 
Jayabaya's prophecy had been realized."

Together with the prophecy of Sabdapalon to return, after 500 years 
and at a time of widespread political corruption and natural 
disasters (in 1978), to sweep Islam from the island and restore Hindu-
Javanese religion and civilization, Joyobooyo's prophecy gave much 
heart to the Indonesian Hindu communities.

Many believe that the time for the arrival of a new ratu adil is near 
(as the prophesies put it, "when iron wagons drive without horses and 
ships sail through the sky [i.e. cars and airplanes]"), and that he 
will come to rescue and reunite Indonesia after an acute crisis, 
ushering in the dawn of a new golden age.

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