According to the vedas (the collection or systemized knowledge structures of the Sanatana Dharma), the universe bustles with activity during the day of Brahma and will remian still during his night. For the uninitiated, Brahma is the god of creation.
This activity and inactivity period will continue forever. Seems like Pulsating theory of western astronomy huh?
The basic unit of time at cosmic level is one yuga. There are four yugas which comprise a yuga cycle and each one have certain characteristic that people of the yuga will inherit.
One yuga has many human years. It varies accordingly.
1. Kritha Yuga - 1.7 million years - Age of truth
2. Tretha yuga - 1.2 million years - Many good and few lies
3. Dwavpara Yuga - 0.8 million years - Evil spreading up
4. Kali Yuga - 0.4 million years - Age of degradation
The day of Brahma is divided into 'Manvandhras' and 'Sandhyas'. Manvandhra constitues 71 Yuga cycles. Sandhya period is equal to the period of Krita yuga.
A day of Brahma = 14 Manvandhras + 15 Sandhyas
We are at present in the 5,000th year of the Kali yuga of the 28th Yuga cycle of the 7th Mandvandhra of the present day of Brahma.
This would give the inhabited earth an age of about 2 billion years. Interestingly enough, the oldest undisputed organisms recognized by paleontologists - algae fossils like those from the Gunflint formation in Canada - are just about that old.
Altogether, 453 yuga cycles have elapsed since this day of Brahma began. Each yuga cycle involves a progression from a golden age of peace and spiritual progress to a final age of violence and spiritual degradation
Very Interesting Blog Indeed. It helps to read these things from a friend, as gives a glimpse of nativity.
ReplyDeleteIf someother guy had written it,then it just passes away as another material on the same things.
Thought I am not reading any phisophosy for a long time( more than a year perhaps), I see that with improvemnts in information technology,people are coming to get aware of various things and the majority of these various things are mostly western. It is good to keep our traditions known as well. To keep an equal balance and in order to avoid any one-sided views for the concepts.
Cheers anyway, Nice to read your blog.
Phoe6