Guest guest Posted March 9, 2003 Report Share Posted March 9, 2003 Om Krishna Guru! Respected Guruji's, Recently in the Starteller issue ( in Letters section) someone wrote that Sri Yukteswar has said that Yugas are not of the order of lacs but mere thousand. According to the article Kaliyuga is not 4,32,000 years and same discrepancy has creeped in. Pundit Sanjay Rath had clarified this many moons ago that the yugas are 4800,3600,2400,1200 Daiva years and not human years. It will work out to be 4,32,000 human years for Kaliyuga. Why I am so disappointed is people writing these articles are holding Phd and not going in to depth of writings and getting a superficial view. What Yukteswar meant was the cycle of ages repeats many times within each yuga like mini yugas within one major yuga. I just wanted to share this with my astrological brethren. Also finally one question to guruji's - There is a mantra given for success in Kaliyuga from Bhavishya Purana in one of the previous Starteller magazine which Lord Vishnu in Kalki avatara would recite to get weapons from Lord Shiva. Can we recite this??? Thanks! Murali Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 10, 2003 Report Share Posted March 10, 2003 JAYA JAGANNATHA! Dear Murali, Namaste. - "m_muraly" <m_muraly <vedic astrology> Sunday, March 09, 2003 6:00 PM [vedic astrology] Kaliyuga > Om Krishna Guru! > > Respected Guruji's, > Recently in the Starteller issue ( in Letters section) someone wrote > that Sri Yukteswar has said that Yugas are not of the order of lacs > but mere thousand. According to the article Kaliyuga is not 4,32,000 > years and same discrepancy has creeped in. Pundit Sanjay Rath had > clarified this many moons ago that the yugas are 4800,3600,2400,1200 > Daiva years and not human years. It will work out to be 4,32,000 > human years for Kaliyuga. Correct. I also compiled an article on this in the August issue of JD last year I think. Sanjayji asked me to collect evidence for the duration of yugas from Bhagavatam and Manu Samhita, and both would support Daiva Varsha and not Soura. The model of sub-yugas and sub-sub yugas is interesting, however I would be a little bit cautious with it because I have never seen any direct shastric evidence supporting this. It is not proven fro me that these divisions were commonly applied by the Maharishis. For me, yuga distribution looks like a unique measurement of ages on that level, as Mahayugas (a cycle of four yugas) are not assembled into higher cycles of yugas, say for example 1 maha yuga would be the length of a Supra Kali yuga, two of a Supra Dwapara etc. The next level after Mahayugas is Manvantaras, and then a day of Brahma. So it seems to be unque, therefore it's not veyr logical to me to expect sub-yugas within a Kali-yuga. Still there may be some gap here because there's no known gradations between yugas and years. You could try to apply Saturnian cycles or Jovian years, but I haven't seen any literature pinpointing the conditions for a starting point of a yuga. Also it is said, that there's some crossfade time, called yuga-sandhya, while the qualities of the next yuga begin manifest. So I think more research is required in the question of smaller and bigger time cycles. Down from the year, everything fits very nicely with the astronomical phenomena. > Why I am so disappointed is people writing these articles are holding > Phd and not going in to depth of writings and getting a superficial > view. What Yukteswar meant was the cycle of ages repeats many times > within each yuga like mini yugas within one major yuga. I just wanted > to share this with my astrological brethren. > Also finally one question to guruji's - > There is a mantra given for success in Kaliyuga from Bhavishya Purana > in one of the previous Starteller magazine which Lord Vishnu in Kalki > avatara would recite to get weapons from Lord Shiva. Can we recite > this??? According to Lord Caitanya, Who quoted Kali/santarana Upanishad and Brhannaradiya Purana, the Yuga Mantra for this age is the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra. Also Lord Caitanya is taken as the Yuga Avatar by the authorities, since He is the one Who brings the Yuga Mantra and distributes it. If the Yuga Dharma were introduced by Kalki, then it wouldn't fulfill its' purpose because He will appear right at the end of the Kali yuga. Yours, Gauranga Das Vedic Astrologer gauranga Jyotish Remedies: WWW.BRIHASPATI.NET Phone:+36-309-140-839 > > Thanks! > Murali > > > > > > > > > > ....... May Jupiter's light shine on us ....... > > > > Your use of is subject to > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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