Citas Sobre El Tiempo Srimad-Bhagavatam
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SuryasukraDurante el día del señor Brahma, catorce Manus o un mil maha-yugas pasaron.
S.B. 9.3.32
La era del actual Manu se calcula que debe durar unos 305.300.000 años, de los cuales
han pasado 120.400.000 años.
B.G. 4.1
Aunque el Señor aparece en un momento programado, es decir, al final de la Dvapara-
yuga del vigesimoctavo milenio del séptimo Manu de un día de Brahma, aun así, Él no
está obligado a someterse a esas reglas y regulaciones, porque está en completa libertad
de actuar a voluntad de muchas maneras.
B.G. 4.7
Al final del día de Brahma, todos los sistemas planetarios inferiores son destruidos.
Cuando el señor Brahma se levanta después de su noche, esos sistemas planetarios
inferiores son creados de nuevo.
S.B. 3.32. 4
10,000 años de los semidioses vividos en la Luna equivalen a 3,650,000 años aquí en la
Tierra.
S.B. 3.32.3
La era actual se encuentra en el periodo de Vaivasvata Manu. Cada periodo de Manu
dura setenta y dos veces el ciclo de cuatro eras, y un ciclo de cuatro eras es igual a
4,320,000 años solares. Así pues, el reino de Manu es de 4,320,000 x 72 años solares.
En cada periodo de Manu ocurren muchos cambios de muchas maneras, y hay catorce
Manus durante un día de Brahma.
S.B. 3.20.1
Las actividades fruitivas son las ocupaciones que se obtienen como reacciones de las
pasadas acciones malas o buenas.
B.G. 2.41
- De acuerdo a las tres modalidades
- Todas las inicia Paramatma
- Imposibles de abandonar
ONE COSMIC DAY OF CREATOR BRAHMA
(as per Hindu scriptures, particularly the Srimad-Bhagavatam)
The one day is divided into 14 periods. Six such periods are over. We are
now in the 7th.
Each period is named after the One Ruler who is appointed to rule the entire
earthly world during that period. The generic name for such a ruler is Manu.
The period is called a Manvantara.
The name of the present Manu is Vaivasvata, the son of the Sun-God.
How long is the day of Brahma ? (4.32 billion years)
What is the present age of this universe ?
What is the Hindu concept of Time ?
Names of the manvantaras of this day of Brahma upto the present seventh.
(each manvantara is of duration 306,720,000 human years)
1.Svaayambhuva Beginning of Creation
Dhruva Episode
Descent of the Lord as Half-man-half-lion to bless Prahlada
2.Svaarochisha The Episode of King Suratha
3. Uttama
4.Taamasa The Episode of Gajendra, the elephant-devotee
5. Raivata
6. Chaakshusha The churning of the Ocean of milk
7. Vaivasvata PRESENT MANVANTARA
There are seven more manvantaras to go in the future
We are in the 7th manvantara .
Each manvantara is divided into 71 maha-yugas.
We are in the 28th maha-yuga of this manvantara.
Each maha-yuga is divided into 4 yugas shown below for the current maha-
yuga.
We are presently in the kaliyuga
of the 28th maha-yuga
of the 7th manvantara of Brahma’s day
(Duration of every kali-yuga = 432,000 years)
Notation : = 432,000
Age of the Universe
Portion of Brahma’s day elapsed so far Duration Table
(till say, 2000 A.D.) consists of
6 manvantara-twilights (6 x 4 ) Duration of Kali-yuga ( ) =
6 manvantaras completed (6 x71 x10 ) 432,000 (human years)
1 manvantara-twilight before the 7th (4 ) Duration of Dvapara-yuga (2 )
27 maha-yugas past in this manvantara (27 x 10 Duration of Treta-yuga (3 )
) Duration of Satya-yuga (4 )
elapsed yugas in this maha-yuga ((4 + 3 + 2) ) Duration of maha-yuga:
5102 years in kali-yuga ( + 2 + 3 + 4 ) = 10
Duration of manvantara: 71 x 10
This adds up to 4567 + 5102 = Duration of one manvantra- twilight : 4
1,972,949,102 human years (one before every manvantara)
This is the present (as of 2000A.D.) age of the universe
in this day of Brahma
Duration of Brahma’s day
One day of Brahma is of duration equivalent to 1000 mahayugas. His night is
equally long. At the beginning of every day creation starts. At the end of the day all
that was created merge in the Absolute and Brahma ‘sleeps’ as it were. 360 such
days and nights make one year of Brahma. According to the Puranas, He has
spent 50 years like this and this day is the first day in his fifty-first year!
One day of Brahma = 14 manvantaras + 15 manvantara twilights
(because there is an extra manvantara - twilight at the end of all the 14 manvantaras)
= 14 x 71 mahayugas + 15 x 4
= 994 mahayugas + 60
= 994 mahayugas + 6 mahayugas
= 1000 mahayugas
= 1000 x10 = 4,320,000,000 human years.
One ‘second’ of Brahma ‘Back to
= 4,320,000,000 / 12x60x60 the future’
= 100,000 human years Story
Names of the remaining seven (future) manvantaras of this day of
Brahma
The next Manu (i.e., the eighth) will be Saavarni. This
8 Saavarni -------------------> promise was made by Mother Goddess to one King Suratha
9 Daksha-saavarni during the second Manvantara. To him (and another) the
10 Brahma-saavarni triple story of Mother Goddess is narrated in the Devi-
11 Dharma-saavarni bhagavatam ( also Chandi or Durg A-saptasati ). The story
12 Rudra-saavarni begins from a mythological event that happened after the
13 Deva-saavarni end of the last kalpa (= day of Brahma) and ends up by
14 Indra-saavarni forecasting the feats of Mother Goddess that are yet to
happen in this kalpa. One such is the prediction that
after which cosmic night will follow Suratha will be born as Manu Saavarni.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
(Source: Srimad-Bhagavatam, IX - 3)
In the mid-satya-yuga of the first maha-yuga of the present manvantara i.e., around
115 million years ago there lived a King of the Solar dynasty, by name Kakudmi,
and his beautiful daughter Revati. Not trusting the astrologers of his time, yet
believing in the maxim ‘marriages are made in heaven’ Kakudmi took his daughter
to the celestial world of Brahma the Creator (Note: in every satya-yuga such
journeys are supposed to be possible) in order to ask the Creator Himself as to
who would be the right marital match for his daughter. Kakudmi had somebody in
his own mind. But Lord Brahma was available to him only after a twenty minutes or
so of waiting time (by the standards of that world). When Kakudmi finally had the
opportunity to ask Brahma his question, Brahma laughed and said:
My dear Kakudmi, from the time you came here your earthly world has passed
through 27 maha-yugas and so none of whom you have in mind or their
descendents are alive now. Right now people are enjoying the avatara (=descent)
of Lord Krishna on the Earth. Go back and marry off your daughter to Balarama,
the elder brother of Krishna’.
Thus it was that Kakudmi and Revati travelled ‘back to their future’ -- from the 1st
mahayuga to the 27th -- and Revati was married to Balarama.
Note: 1 mahayuga = 43.2 ‘seconds’ for Brahma.
THE HINDU CONCEPT OF TIME
According to Hindu religion and cosmology the flow of Time is eternal. Creation
and Dissolution are only two events in a long cyclic succession of Cosmic events.
There is no beginning in the past and there is no end to the future. Creation is a
manifestation in concrete terms of the Absolute. Dissolution is when all the created
universe merges in the Absolute. And that is when the period of non-manifestation
begins. The periods of manifestation and of non-manifestation alternate. These are
the days and nights of Brahma.
Brahma Himself is a manifestation of the Absolute. He has a life of 100 years in His
time.
Between one kalpa (technical name for Brahma’s day) and the next, the only thing
that survive are, Brahma himself (who has to be ‘brought back to memory’, by the
Absolute, after his ‘sleep’ !), the vedas in their latent form and the collected
aggregate of vaasanaas (imprints of actions and thoughts) of all individual souls.
Just as each kalpa is followed by another kalpa with an intervening Cosmic Night,
so also one Brahma is followed by another Brahma.
Copyright � V. Krishnamurthy
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