CREATION OF UNIVERSE - VEDAS

Vedas say that before the creation of the universe Lord Vishnu is sleeping in the ocean of all causes. His bed is a giant serpent with thousands of cobra like hoods.

By the way, in the trinity of Creator, Maintainer and destroyer as mentioned in the Vedas, Lord Vishnu is the maintainer. Brahma is the creator and Shiva is the destroyer.

While Vishnu asleep, a lotus sprouts of his navel ( note that navel is the symbolized as the root of creation!). inside this lotus, Brahma resides.

Brahma represents the universe which we all live in, and it is this Brahma who creates life forms.

Now take a break here. Vishnu is the personification of the eternal multiverse that exists forever without any beginning or end.

Brahma is the personification of our temporary physical universe that was created in the big bang.

Brahma is said to have been created from the navel ( which is a single point) of Vishnu, described as a lotus blooming out of the navel, much like our big bang universe.

Now this universe represented by Brahma is not a permanent universe, it is temporary, Brahma lives for 100 years say the Vedas and then dies and then a new universe ( Brahma ) is born.

So as per Vedas our universe lives for 100 years. later we shall see how long each year of Brahma is.

For now, Brahma represents our universe which has birth and death, a big bangand big crunch, from a navel singularity.

Vishnu represents the eternity that lies beyond our universe which has no birth or death and that which is eternal many such universe like ours exist in Vishnu.

Vedas say that thousands of Brahmas have passed away! In other words, this is not the first time universe has been created.

Let us come back to the time measurements now, Brahma lives for hundred years say Vedas and we are in the first day of the 51st year of the Brahma.

By the way each year of Brahma has 360 days. And we are in the first day of the 51st year of our current Brahma. Coming back to a day of Brahma.

Well there is day and night. Vedas say that during the day Brahma is busy in creation of life and during the night all life he created is absorbed back to him!

So we will be there only for the day of Brahma, which is the first day of 51st year. But dont feel sad, let me promise you this is a pretty long day.

Each day of Brahma is called a Kalpa, and this itself is very huge a number. No wonder, ancient

Indians had to be perfect in mathematics before going into all these things. A Kalpa is made up of Brahma's one day and one night.

The days has 14 Manvantharas. Similarly the night has equal 14 Manvantharas. But then Brahma is resting in the night, so lets get back to the day again. We are in the 7th Manvanthara of Brahma's this day, say the Vedas.

Each Manvanthara is made up of 71 Mahayuga. We are in the 28th Mahayuga of this Manvanthara say the Vedas.

A Mahayuga is a collection of 4 Yugas. Maha means giant or huge. The 4 Yugas are Satya Yuga ( also called Krita Yuga), Tetra Yuga, Dwapara yuga, Kali Yuga. We are in the Kali Yuga our current Mahayuga say the Vedas.

Satya yuga last for 40% of its Mahayuga Age of divine where humans need no physical means to exist and are in direct contact with the God.

Tetra Yuga lasts for 30% of its mahayuga - Age where bad deeds starts appearing, still there is lot of truth, infact 3/4 of this age still goodness.

Dwapara yuga last for 20% of its mahayuga - Dwapara means after the second, where there are almost equal of good and bad.

Kali Yuga lasts for 10% of its Mahayuga-Kali means darkness in Sanskrit ( not to be confused with Kaali which is godess), no wonder we are in this age.

Now finally we have reached to a timescale which we can relate to our own years.
1 Kaliyuga = 432000 solar years!

A Kaliyuga has the length of one Yuga. So One Mahayuga has 10 yugas of which four are in Satya Yuga, 3 are in Tetra Yuga, 2 in Dwapara Yuga and 1 in Kali Yuga. So a Mahayuga is equal to 10 times the Kaliyuga i.e. 4320000 solar years.

Let us do some reverse calculation now to find out the age of the universe as per the Vedas.

1 Mahayuga = 4320000

1 Manvantara = 71 Mahayugas

1 Day of Brahma = 14 Manvantharas = 994 Mahayugas

Now a small addition here, Vedas also say that before and after each Manvantara there is a gap equivalent to 4 yugas ( Not Mahayuga).

So now, 1 day of Brahma = 14 Manvantaras + 15 x 4 Yugas) = 994 Mahayugas + 60 Yugas = 994 Mahayugas + 6 mahaYugas = 1000

So 1 day of Brahma = 1000 Mahayugas = 4,320,000,000 years

1 night is again 1000 Mahayugas = 4,320,000,000 years.

So one complete day is 8.64 billion years.

Note that we are in the 7th Manvantara of this day. So let us calculate how many years have passed since today started for Brahma.

Step 1 : For 6 Manvataras we have 71 x 6 426 Mahayugas

Step 2 : Then we have the gaps between each manvantara which is 7 x 4 Yugas = 2.8 Mahayugas

Step 3 : Then we have the current mahayuga in our Manvantara which is 28th, we are in the last 1/10 of it. ( Remember Kaliyuga is the last of 4 yugas and spans 1/10 of a mahayuga), So it is 27.9 mahayugas.
So all put together we have 426+2.8+27.9=456.7 Mahayugas have been already  spent in current day of Brahma.

Approximately 543 more to go before we all are absorbed back into the Brahma.

Okay so 456.7 in terms of the years is 456.7 x 4,320,000 = 1,972,944,546 which is about 2 billion years. Somewhat close to what evolution proposes for life on earth

Now lets find out the age of our universe as per Vedas.  Let us consider the age of the Brahma to be the age of the universe. This is one number which no modern theory can even come anywhere near ti it.

As we saw earlier a day of Brahma has 2000 Mahayugas. There are 360 days in a year for Brahma we are in the first day of 51st year. So far 360 x 50 = 18000 days have passed for Brahma. this is equivalent to 18000 x 2000 x 4320000 human years i.e. 155,520,000,000,000 Human years.



Add the current day of Brahma which is 1,972,944,456 Human years so as per Vedas, the current age of the universe is 155,521,972,944,456 years which is about 155,522 billion years!!!!!

Modern day science has been able to predict age of our universe to be about 15 - 20 billion years!

Moreover since we are in the first day of 51st year of Brahma almost equal amount of time has to pass before this universe ends!!

So either modern science still has a long way to go in estimating the age of the universe OR  the universe mentioned in the Vedas is the mother of all universe including our own universe!!

More interesting : Vedas also say that the average human life span in each yuga is as follows.

Kali yuga : 100 years

Dwapara yuga : 200 yeras

Tetra yuga ; 300 years

Satya yuga : 400 years!

We observe another interesting fact here, Vedas are also implying by this that humans are not limited to planet earth nor to this universe alone. We belong to the Yugas as well where we live a lomger life!! More than the length of th elife, a greater depth as well.


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