Apocalypse and Hindu Mythology

The streets are now full of bodies. And fire.

I and 4 others are the only survivors I have encountered so far. The outer world is now completely in ruins. It’s hard to find food anymore.

I don’t know why we are alive. We are supposed to be dead. Each and everyone of us.

Why did it all end? It seems God has answered our prayers.
It all began in a prison. In India.

I remember watching the news that day. Reports flooded in of the mysterious deaths of 42 prisoners in a high-security prison in Northern India.
They all dropped dead simultaneously. Just like that. Autopsy didn't help much.

Two days later it started happening in all the prisons all over the country. Hard-Core prisoners just dropping like flies everywhere. This phenomenon then spread all over the world. Soon it was the turn of Gangsters and rulers of organized crime. 80% of world’s most wanted criminals are now dead by this time.

Politicians and some movie stars started dropping too. Governments started panicking everywhere. The cause is found to be some form of a crude psychic wave emanating from Sambhal city of Uttar Pradesh in India, which has since been termed “Area Zero”.

The source is declared as a small boy aged 12 in Sambhal who always appeared to be asleep although in a seated position. Closely following this discovery, sensitives and psychics all over the world simultaneously started having strange visions. Visions of a white horse. More people died each day and more people claimed to have had visions of a white horse.

Any attempt to stop the boy proved futile. Any one who approached “Area zero” with an intention to harm the boy immediately dropped dead. Most of the prisons all over the world were now almost empty. Convicts died in huge numbers. Some miraculously survived for unknown reasons.

The west dubbed the boy “Punisher” for his immediate targets seemed to be sinners of highest order. But the Indians had a different name for him.

They called him ‘Kalki’

According to Hindu cosmology there are four yugas which are cyclic like the seasons

1)Satya Yuga or golden age where all righteous principles of Dharma are followed
2)Treta Yuga or silver age
3)Dwapara yuga or Bronze age
4)Kali yuga or Iron age where sin and Adharma prevail over Dharma.

It is said when evil and sin reach their pinnacle in Kali yuga Vishnu will return in his final 10th Avatar ‘Kalki’ on a white horse and destroy all sinners and sin and usher this world into a new Satya Yuga again.

The west also started calling him the the “First horseman of apocalypse or the white horseman of apocalypse”

Suddenly everyone wanted to clean away their sin. Thousands died in stampedes at temples all over India. India suddenly becomes the most visited place for its temples and also the most feared place because of it’s proximity to Area Zero.

Priests become rulers of this crumbling world. Soon, once the seemingly obvious sinners seem to have been killed, common ordinary citizens start dying in huge numbers. Priests are not spared either.

Soon it dawns on everyone that everybody is a sinner, in thoughts or actions and everyone is eventually going to be killed, sooner or later. What do you do when your God is trying to kill you? whom do you pray to? Thousands commit suicide. Society starts to fall apart. Families get together all over the world.

Soon people start reporting that pregnant women all over the world started disappearing suddenly. Vanishing right in front of others eyes.

My guess is they are being teleported to Area Zero. May be new born babies will be used to populate the new golden age-SatyaYuga as un-born babies are the only people who cant sin yet. Just a theory

I saw most of my relatives, neighbors, friends die. I waited and waited. Honestly I expected my turn to come at a much earlier stage. Soon I was the only one left in my town.

I wandered cities like a savage, trying to find other survivors. Once everyone seemed to die, the restructuring began. Entire cities started burning up instantaneously. This is RagnaRok. I have no idea if this happening all over the world. Communication systems are down. So are all other systems. The world is one big funeral pyre. I met 4 others along the way. A doctor, a cop, a suicidal librarian and a priest. Most of the knowledge which I now have, comes from the librarian and some of it from the priest.

Me? I was one of the few that survived the initial prison holocausts. I used to be a drug dealer. I have no idea why I survived. Neither does any of us. We are no saints. It has been 5 months since the restructuring began. Entire blocks burn down in a night leaving nothing but ruins and ash. We now live underground, scouring daily for food in the constantly changing fiery outer-world.

Why are we being kept alive? What is our purpose? We don’t know. Is there any way to stop this? Are there any more survivors? Where are the mothers? I think answers can only be found at one place and here we are … surviving along the way, getting closer to that dreadful land of liberation.

Area Zero.

Originally published at www.quora.com.

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