According to the Mayan calendar the world will end in the year 2012 during the winter solstice. Many have thus said that this meant the Mayans predicted the world’s end in the year 2012. This has caused frenzy among the people about what is going to happen on December 21, 2012. The predictions talk about total destruction and devastation. If we look deeply into the matter we will see that many literatures mention this ending of the world and the start of a new era.
If we look at the Holy Bible we will see that it mentions the second coming of Jesus Christ. Revelation, the other name for the Bible was written by the last original Disciples of Christ, Apostle John. John had had visions where he saw that humanity would suffer disease pandemics, wars, famine and religious strife throughout the world before Christ returns. It is said that Jesus will return to save the human race from all this destruction. The book also tells us about a time of deliverance that Christ predicted. Thus humanity will not be annihilated and face complete extinction.
Next if we look at the Vedic scriptures we will see a large number of books written in Sanskrit. These scriptures are an integral part of literature of the Indian culture. In fact most people consider the scriptures as spiritual literature. The scriptures give a lot of information about the cycles that happen in the world time and again. Just the way the cycle of seasons repeat, in a similar way the four ages or yugas also repeat themselves again and again. The four ages as mentioned here are the Satya-yuga or golden age, the silver age or the Yuga of Treta, the Dvapara Yuga or the Age of Bronze and lastly the Iron Age or the Kali Yuga. We are now in the Iron Age also called the Kali Yuga. This age is the one referred to as the demise of the world. So it is like after winter comes spring again. The winter age of Kali will lead to the spring age of Satya. The Vedas say that Kali Yuga has just started and will continue. So the world will not get destroyed in 2012.
The Quran mentions that before the world ends, it will show signs that the end is near or approaching. They say that there are seven prophesies mentioned in the Quran and after all the seven gets fulfilled the “day of judgment” will arrive. Only four of such seven prophesies have been fulfilled till this date! So once again we can assume that the Earth will not be destroyed and we the inhabitants will continue to survive. So the above literature of the three main religions in their own ways show that the world is not coming to an in the year 2012. Like in any argument, there are a number pf people who give statements in favour of the world ending and there are those who contradict the destructive predictions. We need to look at much earlier literature and various kinds of literature to understand further about the Mayan prediction of the world’s end.