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14. THE CONCEPT OF AGES
Person. So when the new Mahakalpa starts, the experience gained by the jivas during all the previous Kalpas, the thoughts anxieties and worries which remains within the Supreme Person is brought back and wakes up as well. The Time is essentially a continuation from the last. Hence the cycle is always thought of as a day and night. In the night the cosmos goes to sleep only to wake upto another day.
LIFE OF BRAHMĀ 311.04 trillion years (36,000 kalpas (days of Brahma) and an equal number of nights)
crcation
full devastation
partial creation
partial
devastation
KALPA (day of Brahma) 432 billion years (14 manvantaras + 15 sandhyds)
night is the same length
night
night
sandhya, or juncture 1.728 million years (partial creation)
sandhya 1.728 million years (partial devastation)
MANVANTARA 306.72 million years (71 divyayugas)
sandhyds
DIVYA-YUGA 4.32 million years (4 yugas)
Satya-yuga (1.728 million years)
Tret-yugu (1.2% million years)
Dvipare-yug (864,000 years)
Kali-yuga (432,000 years)
Our current date
We are currently in the 28th kaliyuga of the first day of the 1st year of the shvetavaraha kalpa of the second parardha of Brahma in the reign of the 7th Manu, Manu Vaivasvata. This is the 51st year of the present Brahma and so about 155 trillion years have elapsed since he took over as Brahma." wikipedia
The current Kali Yuga (Iron Age) began at midnight 17 February / 18 February in 3102 BC There are three types of Pralaya: "Dissolution, reabsorption; destruction; death." A synonym for samhara, one of the five functions of Siva. Also names the partial destruction or reabsorption of the cosmos at the end of each eon or kalpa. There are three kinds of periods of dissolution:
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Laya, at the end of a mahayuga, when the physical world is destroyed; Pralaya, at the end of a kalpa, when both the physical and subtle worlds are destroyed; and
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