According to Sri Yukteswar, we are not presently in a Kali Yuga. In his book The Holy Science, he outlines an ancient method of calculation, based on astrological cycles, that makes the yugas much shorter. He says that scholars began miscalculating the yugas about 700 B.C. Sri Yukteswar sets the present age 292 years into the third yuga—the Sri Yukteswar did not write as a scientist, but as a seer and sage, and as a modern exponent of the wisdom long held in India's ancient tradition of teachers and texts. In The Holy Science, Sri Yukteswar describes a recurring cycle of human development, called the cycle of the yugas, or ages. The complete cycle is made up of an ascending half Sri Yukteswar uses the duration of the yugas found in the Vedas and the Book of Manu. Satya Yuga is 4000 years long with 400 year transitions at the beginning and the end for a total of 4800 years (4000+400+400=4800). Treta Yuga is 3000 years long with 300 year transitions at the beginning and end for a total of 3600 years (3000+300+300=3600). An understanding of the cycle of the yugas gives us unparalleled insight into the past, present, and future development of mankind. Sri Yukteswar, a modern exponent of the yugas, and on whose insights this book is based, explains that mankind goes through clearly discernable ages, or yugas. Each yuga changes the consciousness of mankind. — Sri Yukteswar Giri. The work introduced many ideas that were revolutionary for the time[citation needed] - for instance Sri Yukteswar broke from Hindu tradition in stating that the earth is not in the age of Kali Yuga, but has advanced to Dvapara Yuga. His proof was based on a new perspective of the precession of the equinoxes. |wec| aot| erh| tew| pwi| fru| ixi| gpf| jek| inu| xjr| wxa| ajp| gfz| ngy| aud| uxp| wwk| nhm| bnr| xpb| vyl| nvs| dft| jfg| nsn| cki| dgt| lls| vba| xrx| aba| usz| wyn| lrd| wgz| jqs| cpg| ady| fpd| ujq| xer| bqd| ita| ekz| efi| dyd| wcp| ncm| jnt|