Then he followed that by saying, “In 2020, however, the world will enter a period of crisis. That is the year that Dharma (truth and virtue) will be at its lowest point.”
Apparently that prediction came to him along with a sense of needing to set things straight because Sivananda Murthy came up with the idea to put on a conference on Mundane Astrology. Mundane Astrology is the astrology of nations and world events. He had repeatedly told me that I should focus more on the astrology of the world rather than the astrology of individuals. He also knew that I had co-produced several world conferences on Vedic astrology in the USA, so he asked me to help him with his conference. I agreed, and in 2010, he put on the World Conference on Mundane Astrology, in Vishakhapatnam, India. We invited astrologers from all over the world to speak at the conference and to give predictions about where the world would be headed in the next 20 years. Each astrologer picked a topic to talk about. I spoke about the Rahu/Saturn conjunction in 2013. Sivananda Murthy spoke about the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction in 2020. At that conference, he went public with his prediction that the world would go into crisis and that dharma would be at its lowest point in 2020.
A couple of years later, Sivananda Murthy invited me, David Frawley, and his wife, Yogini Shambhavi, to come to his ashram in Bimunipatnam, India, for further discussions on the astrology of 2020 from various angles. We spent four days meeting and discussing transits, conjunctions, charts of countries and charts of various heads of state.
In his predictions at the 2010 conference, as well as his discussions with the three of us, Sivananda Murthy had predicted that 2020 would be the beginning of a challenging time for the world that would gradually devolve, resulting in a significant decrease in the world population over the rest of the century. He said that the cause of the population decrease would probably come from a variety of sources, possibly including diseases, climate change, wars, geological events, floods etc.
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