Yuga

Yuga (Sanskrit yuga युग, n, [ jugɐ ] "Period" ) in Hinduism is the name given to the four ages of the world. One starts from the idea that being exposed to an ever- repeating sequence of growth and decay.

Maha - Yuga

The shortest of these world cycles is called Maha - Yuga ("long period" ) and divided into four world ages varying duration. These are:

• Satya Yuga ( सत्य युग ), also Krta yuga ( कृत युग ) called
• Treta Yuga ( त्रेता युग )
• Dvapara - Yuga ( द्वापर युग )
• Kali Yuga ( कलि युग )

In the first world age, the Krita Yuga which has become in him shape law of life ( Dharma ) is fully realized. The power of the Holy Dharma shrinks by one quarter of world ages to world age. In the Treta Yuga, so are only 3 /4, and in Dvapara - yuga only 1/ 2 of the Dharma available. In Kali Yuga, the worst condition is reached. It is therefore similar to the global aging of the ancient world, the development of the world as a kontuinierlicher descent described by a "golden" Satya Yuga, over the still "silver " Treta Yuga to the " bronze " Dvapara Yuga with a low point in the "iron " Kali Yuga. However, the Indians do not indicate the age for metals with decreasing value as the Greek mythographers, but according to the throws at dice, with Krta ( " four " ) is the winner litter, followed by Treta ( " three ", " triad" ) and Dvapara ( "twos " ) and ending in Verlierwurf Kali, the One.

According to tradition, we are currently living in a Kali Yuga, which began on Friday, February 18 3102 BC.

Duration of the cycles

The perfection of the age corresponds to its duration. Here, the first era lasted four times, second three times and third twice as long as the last imperfect age, so that the duration of a Maha - Yuga times (4 3 2 1 ) as long as that of the Kali Yuga is. In the Manusmriti, the " Code of Manu " is the duration of the four ages of the world as 4000, 3000, given in 2000 and 1000 years, each of which a transitional period of 400, 300, 200 and 100 years precedes or follows, resulting in a duration of Kali Yuga results of 1000 100 100 = 1200 years. The duration of the Maha - Yuga is therefore 12,000 years.

However, one is usually translate Bhagavatapurana one years this bill than a year in the era of the gods, corresponding to 360 years in the era of the people. From this conversion, the most specified duration results with the yugas, namely

• Kali Yuga: 1200 × 360 = 432,000 years
• Dvapara Yuga: 2400 × 360 = 864,000 years
• Treta Yuga: 3600 × 360 = 1.296 million years
• Satya Yuga: 4800 × 360 = 1.728 million years

A Maha Yuga lasts as total 4.32 million years of human beings.

1000 Maha Yuga are a Brahma - day or a Kalpa of 4320 million years ago. At a Brahma day followed by an equally long night of Brahma. The life of Brahma lasts for 100 Brahma years every 360 days. Then it comes to a state of perfect Taken Melted fitness for another 100 Brahma years, after the end of Vishnu's navel a new Brahma and at the same time created a new world.

A complete cycle takes therefore the world (1000 200 ) × 10 × 1 000 × 2 × 360 × 100 = 864 000 000 000 311 040 years = gods billion years. After the end of about 3 × 1014 years then the whole thing starts all over again.

Yugas to Sri Yukteswar

According to a theory of the guru Sri Yukteswar in his book The Holy Science, the distinction of years of the gods and years of human corruption, ie concentrations Maha Yuga lasts (only ) 12,000 years. The pessimistic traditional view in which always follows only descent to descent, he corrected, however, by having added a descending sequence of the four ages of the world with a corresponding increasing sequence, resulting in a total cycle with a period of 24,000 years is calculated, which is about the well " Platonic year " said cycle of precession 25700-25800 years corresponds.

According to Sri Yukteswar calculation we are at the beginning of Dwapara Yuga and have the transitional period behind us. The nadir of the Kali Yuga, that time situated where the last Kali Yuga of the Descending cycle and the first Kali Yuga of the ascending cycle was about 498 AD The next summit of perfection will be achieved according to this calculation, around the year 12,500.