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To: soc.religion.eastern
From: verma@awecim.enet.dec.com (Virendra Verma)
Subject: Re: Whence the Kali Yuga?? (Was: The Avatar)
Date: Kali Yuga 49941115
Quoting: >tyagi mordred nagasiva
>|Virendra Verma
>|I read that the duration of yuga-cycle is 4.32 million years which
>|is divided into satya, treta, dwaper and kal in the ratio 4:3:2:1.
>|That is Satya yuga is four times longer than kal yuga.
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>Does anyone know at point we are currently in the Kal(i) Yuga, according
>to your favorite sources?
According to Mahabharat, the kali yuga started on the midnight
of 17th and 18th February, 3102 BC.
A little correction to my earlier post. One kalpa contains 1000 yugas,
so one kalpa is equal to 4.32 Billion years.
Here is the complete picture. Brahma Day is one cycle, ie., it
includes Sristhi, Sthiti and Pralya.
1 yuga = 4.32 million years
One Brahma Day = one kalpa = 1000 yugas
1 Brahma Month = 30 Brahma Days
12 Brahma Months = one Brahma Year
Life of the Brahma = 100 Years
The age of the current Brahma is 50 years. The current Kalpa in the
51st year is srisvetavarahakalpa.
About yuga cycle:
Satya yuga (gloden or truth age) - 1, 728, 000 years
Treta yuga - 1, 296, 000 years
Dvaper yuga - 864, 000 years
Kal yuga (machine age) - 432, 000 years
There is one dissolution every 1000 yugas called Nimaitya Pralya
There is absolute dissolution after 100 Brahma Years.
The Life of the entire Universe is 100 Brahma Years which is the
production (not creation; Hinduism does not believe in creation,
because creation implies absence of material) of one most evolved
jiva, called Brahma, Hiranyagarbha or Purushottam, in the previous
cycle. This jiva projects the universe by His own Will through
meditation. Through meditation, this Jiva knows all that happened
in the previous cycles and the accumulated karmas of all the jivas
lying in dormant state (called avyakta) during Pralya so that
He arranges the manifestation of the universe based on karmic seed.
regards,
-- Virendra Verma
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