The problem that i have with this vision is that while it makes no sense in terms of present physics, it can be explained in terms of my cloud cosmoligy
The multiple suns are the various planets perhaps reacting to an external resonance and allowing the theoretical inner suns to be freed up. Perhaps that is how the asteroid belt was formed. And that inner sun might then have plunged into Jupiter.
With that sort of a plausible scenario, this mythos descrbed by Buddha could work and i can no longer dismiss it out of hand.
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THIS Is How The World Will End, According To Buddha
RiseEarth 12:59 PM World Truth
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The end time (also called end times, end of time, end of days, last days, final days, or eschaton) is a future time-period described variously in the eschatologies of several world religions which believe that world events will achieve a final climax.
The Abrahamic faiths maintain a linear cosmology, with end-time
scenarios containing themes of transformation and redemption. In
Judaism, the term “end of days” makes reference to the Messianic Age,
and includes an in-gathering of the exiled Jewish diaspora, the coming
of the Messiah, the resurrection of the righteous and the world to come.
Some sects of Christianity depict the world will come to an end through
a series of cataclysmic events followed by resurrection of departed
souls and judgment day.
According to Vedic tradition, Aditi is mother of eight Adityas or solar
deities (suns). At the end of creation these eight suns will shine
together in the skies. In the following sermon, the Buddha speaks of how
seven suns will appear in the sky and how the planet earth will
eventually be destroyed, after many hundreds and thousands of years,
through a series of cataclysmic events which are described below.
- The earth will suffer from a severe drought due to lack of rains. All vegetation and life forms will disappear and vanish from the planet.
- A second sun will appear in the horizon, resulting in the evaporation of many streams and ponds.
- A third sun will appear resulting in the evaporation of many great rivers like the Ganges.
- After a long lapse of time, a fourth sun will appear in the sky resulting in the evaporation of great lakes.
- After another long lapse of time, a fifth sun will appear and the oceans will dry up slowly till they will become a finger deep.
- After another long lapse of time, a sixth sun will appear. The earth crust and core will heat up to intense temperatures resulting in many volcanic explosions, scorched earth and smoke filled skies.
- After another vast interval, a seventh sun will appear. The earth will become a fiery ball of flame and expand. Its flames will spread far and wide. Finally it will explode and disappear altogether.
The manner in which the Buddha predicted the end of the earth sounds
very much like a modern scientific theory on the destruction of planets
and the entire solar system. The Buddha also clearly mentions that all
life forms will vanish before the appearance of the second sun.
Thereafter the earth will be a dead planet ready for its eventual
destruction.
The seven suns mentioned in the discourse probably are various planets
of the solar system that would become hot and shine like stars due to
some changes in the activity of the sun or its gravitational force.
The manner in which the drying up of the planet earth is described
reminds one of the greenhouse effect and the events that might have
happened on planets like Mars which had once oceans and rivers and
probably life forms.
The Buddha delivered this sermon to remind his disciples of the
impermanent nature of the world and of our existence, which is subject
to decay and renewal and from which even a god like Brahma is not free
unless he overcomes it by practicing Dhamma and following the eight-fold
path.
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