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A Brief History of Our Universe
Cycling through time
What do we really know of the history of the universe and our planetary home? The
principal Western theories are that either god created heaven and earth in the space of six
days, or the universe exploded from a seed and over the past billions of
years became the universe we know today.
The God creation theory is steadily losing out as science and space research
advances, modern science claims it is able to measure the physical development of the known
universe and tells us that the universe is now some 13 to 15
billion years old and that it's about halfway through a total life of some 35
billion years when the universe will evaporate/disintegrate into nothingness as it
continues to expand, or that it may collapse into itself and implode.
However, science still has a long way to go as we reside on a
small planet in a distant galaxy far removed from the centre of the
universe and one of the big unanswered questions is; is this the only universe? Actually
I think not.
Nature does not produce one of a kind, it produces a multitude, so although
it is beyond scientific perception, there must be a multitude of universes similar to our own
(multiverse).
But perhaps the God Creation theory and
big bang theories can be put into a new perspective by
looking at the Vedas.
According to Vedic cosmology the flow of time is eternal with our universe
undergoing regular creation and dissolution (birth and destruction). Its
just one extremely long cosmic cyclic event that had no beginning and has no
end.
Vedic cosmology has some very big numbers and begins with the central idea
that there is a central entity called Vishnu who is the personification of
our eternal multiverse.
From Vishnu (Mahavishnu), Brahma is born as the personification of our temporary physical
universe that was created in what we refer to now as the big bang and
gives the current age of the universe as about 155,522 billion years.
Creation simply comes and goes with the days and
nights of Brahma or between one kalpa and the next, the only thing that survives
is Brahma and after each intervening
Cosmic Night, Brahma re-awakes and a new universe is born as we know it.
Brahma (our universe) has a life period of 100 years with 360 days per year,
but for us mortals, one day of Brahma (called called a Kalpa) is equivalent
to 4.320,000,000 (4.32 billion) of our years on earth, but Brahma's
night is equally as long so you have to double this to get what we think of
as a full Bramanic 24 hour day which can be further divided into cycles of
12,000 celestial years.
To bring us closer to toward Earth time, each day of Brahma is divided into
one thousand irregular cycles known as the four yugas which in our human
years are:
- (Krita) Satya-yuga - 1,440,000 years
- Treta-yuga - 1,080,000 years
- Dvapara-yuga - 720,000 years
- Kali-yuga - 360,000 years which is the current yuga in this cycle.
There
is a great deal of variance between scholars as
Stephen Knapp presents this
scenario:
- Krita-yuga = 4000 divine years, Sandhya = 400
divine years, Sandhyansa = 400 divine years. Total = 4800 divine years x 360
days = 1,728,000 human years.
- Treta-yuga = 3000 divine years, Sandhya = 300
divine years, Sandhyansa = 300 divine years. Total = 3600 divine years x 360
days = 1,296,000 human years.
- Dvapara-yuga = 2000 divine years, Sandhya =
200 divine years, Sandhyansa = 200 divine years. Total = 2400 divine years x
360 days = 864,000 human years.
- Kali-yuga = 1000 divine years, Sandhya = 100
divine years, Sandhyansa = 100 divine years. Total = 1200 divine years x 360
days = 432,000 human years.
To really get your head around the numbers and calculate correctly,
you really need to do some serious research and take into account the
different numbering systems in use by Vedic scholars and how they are translated into
our modern short form number system, but what I see in Vedic cosmology is that it
includes both the creation and science theories, but it suggests so much more;
like human inter-universal travel, it discounts Darwin's theory of evolution,
opens up the possibilities of communing with gods and sets mankind the challenge
to directly cognise by way of the lesser gods, Brahma and ultimately Vishnu, what a challenge.
But perhaps this is a better way of spending our time instead of
acquisition, gossiping, arguing and fighting?
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