Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone…And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion…For Everyone Everywhere…All Around The World. With All That’s Going On Around Us…The World Can Sometimes Seem Loveless…As If Hatred, War, And Violence Are The Vices Ruling The Hearts, Minds, And Actions – Of Mankind. But Give No Power To Appearances! Yet, That Dark Negative Energy – Unless Consumed By Our Loving Energy – Is Absorbed By Individuals And The Collective; In Turn Generating And Infusing More Of That Same Negative Energy Back Into The Atmosphere. Unfortunately, Until Mankind – As The Children Of The Living God – Begin To Believe In And Utilize The Power And Protection Of Their Own Loving Energy – The Power And Protection Of Their “Mighty I AM Presence” …And Stop Waiting On Their Salvation To Come From The Heavens; Much Of Humanity Will Continue To Be Open To The Manipulation Of Those Dark Energies – And Much More Destruction And Sadness Will Result! Amen…

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…

And Y’all Be Love…

“The World’s Ages are the “Yugas” of Brahmanism. “Of this elaborate system…no traces are found in the hymns of the Rigveda. Their authors were, indeed, familiar with the word ‘yuga’, which frequently occurs in the sense of age, generation, or tribe. …The first passage of the Rigveda in which there is any indication of a considerable mundane period being noted is where ‘a first’ or an earlier age (yuga) of the gods is mentioned when `the existent sprang from the non-existent’. …In one verse of the Atharva-Veda, however, the word ‘yuga’ is so employed as to lead to the supposition that a period of very long duration is intended. It is there said: ‘We allot to thee, a hundred, ten thousand years, two, three; four ages (yugas)’”. Professor Muir traced references in the Brahmanas to the belief in “Yugas” as “Ages”, but showed that these were isolated ideas with which, however, the authors of these books were becoming familiar. When the system of Yugas was developed by the Indian priestly mathematicians, the result was as follows:

One year of mortals is equal to one day of the gods. 12,000 divine years are equal to a period of four Yugas, which is thus made up, viz., Krita Yuga, with its mornings and evenings, 4,800 divine years; Treta Yuga, 3,600; Dwãpara Yuga, 2,400; Kali Yuga, 1,200, making 12,000. These 12,000 divine years equal 4,320,000 years of mortals, each human year being composed of 360 days. A thousand of these periods of 4,320,000 years equals one day (Kalpa) of Brahma. During “the day of Brahma”, fourteen Manus reign: each Manu period is a Manvantara. A year of Brahma is composed of 360 Kalpas, and he endures for 100 of these years. One half of Brahma’s existence has now expired. At the end of each “day” (Kalpa), Brahma sleeps for a night of equal length, and before falling asleep, the Universe becomes water as at the beginning. He creates anew when he wakes on the morning of the next Kalpa.

One of the most interesting accounts of the Yugas is given in the Mahábhárata. It is embedded in a narrative which reflects a phase of the character of that great epic. Bhima of the Pan´davas, the human son of the wind god Vayu, once went forth to obtain for his beloved queen the flowers of Paradise – those Celestial lotuses of a thousand petals with sun-like splendour and unearthly fragrance, which prolong life and renew beauty. They grow in the demon-guarded woodland lake in the region of Kuvera, god of treasure. Bhima hastened towards the northeast, facing the wind, armed with a golden bow and snake-like arrows; like an angry lion he went, nor ever felt weary.

… Bhima went speedily through the forest; stags, with grass in their mouths, looked up at him unafraid; invisible Yakshas and Gandharvas watched him as he went on swifter than the wind, and ever wondering how he could obtain the flowers of Paradise without delay.

…The ape god Hanuman was awakened; drowsily he yawned, and he lashed his long tail with tempest fury until it stretched forth like a mighty pole and obstructed the path of Bhima. Thus, the ape god, who was also a son of Vayu, the wind, made Bhima to pause. Opening his red sleepy eyes, he said: “Sick am I, but I was slumbering sweetly; why hast thou awakened me so rudely? Whither art thou going? Yonder mountains are closed against thee, thou art treading the path of the gods. Therefore pause and repose here, do not hasten to destruction.”

Said Bhima: “Who art thou? I am a Kshatriya, the son of Vayu. …Arise and let me pass, or else thou wilt perish.”

Hanuman said: “I am sickly and cannot move; leap over me.”

Said Bhima: “I cannot leap over thee. It is forbidden by the Supreme Soul, else would I bound as Hanuman bounded over the ocean, for I am his brother.”

Hanuman said: “Then move my tail and go past.”

Then Bhima endeavoured to lift the tail of the ape god, but failed, and he said: “Who art thou that hath assumed the form of an ape; art thou a god, or a spirit, or a demon?”

Hanuman said: “I am the son of Vayu, even Hanuman; thou art my elder brother.”

Said Bhima: “I would fain behold the incomparable form thou didst assume to leap over the ocean.”

Hanuman said: “At that Age the universe was not as it is now. Thou canst not behold the form I erstwhile had. …In Krita Yuga there was one state of things and in the Treta Yuga another; greater change came with Dwãpara Yuga, and in the present Yuga there is lessening, and I am not what I have been. The gods, the saints, and all things that are, have changed. I have conformed with the tendency of the present age and the influence of Time.”

Said Bhima: “I would fain learn of thee regarding the various Yugas. Speak and tell what thou dost know, O Hanuman.”

The ape god then spake and said: “The Krita Yuga (Perfect Age) was so named because there was but one religion, and all men were saintly: therefore they were not required to perform religious ceremonies. Holiness never grew less, and the people did not decrease. There were no gods in the Krita Yuga, and there were no demons or Yakshas, and no Rakshasas or Nagas. Men neither bought nor sold; there were no poor and no rich; there was no need to labour, because all that men required was obtained by the power of will; the chief virtue was the abandonment of all worldly desires. The Krita Yuga was without disease; there was no lessening with the years; there was no hatred, or vanity, or evil thought whatsoever; no sorrow, no fear. All mankind could attain to supreme blessedness.

“The universal soul was Narayana: he was white; he was the refuge of all and was sought for by all. The identification of self with the universal soul was the whole religion of the Perfect Age. In the Treta Yuga, sacrifices began, and the World Soul became Red: virtue lessened a quarter. Mankind sought truth and performed religious ceremonies; they obtained what they desired by giving and by doing. In the Dwãpara Yuga the aspect of the World Soul was Yellow: religion lessened one-half. The Veda, which was one (the Rigveda) in the Krita Yuga, was divided into four parts, and although some had knowledge of the four Vedas, others knew but three or one. Mind lessened, Truth declined, and there came desire and diseases and calamities; because of these men had to undergo penances. It was a decadent Age by reason of the prevalence of sin. In the Kali Yuga the World Soul is Black in hue: it is the Iron Age; only one quarter of virtue remaineth. The world is afflicted, men turn to wickedness; disease cometh; all creatures degenerate; contrary effects are obtained by performing holy rites; change passeth over all things, and even those who live through many Yugas must change also.”

Having spoken thus, Hanuman bade Bhima to turn back, but Bhima said: “I cannot leave thee until I have gazed upon thy former shape.” Then Hanuman favoured his brother and assumed his vast body; he grew till he was high as the Vindhya Mountain. He was like to a great golden peak with splendour equal to the sun, and he said: “I can assume even greater height and bulk by reason of mine own power.”

Having spoken thus, Hanuman permitted Bhima to proceed on his way under the protection of Vayu, god of wind. He went towards the flowery steeps of the sacred mountain, and at length he reached the Celestial lotus lake of Kuvera, which was shaded by trees and surrounded by lilies; the surface of the waters was covered with golden lotuses which had stalks of lapis lazuli. Yakshas, with big eyes, came out against Bhima, but he slew many, and those that remained were put to flight. He drank the waters of the lake, which renewed his strength. Then he gathered the Celestial lotuses for his queen.

In this tale we discover the ancient Indo-European myth regarding the earth’s primitive races. The first age is the White Age, the second is the Red Age, the third the Yellow Age, and the fourth, the present Kali Yuga, is the Black or Iron Age. Hesiod, the Greek poet, in his Works and Days, divided the mythical history of Greece similarly, but the order of the Ages was different; the first was the Golden Age (yellow); the second was the Silver Age (white); the third was the Bronze Age (red); the fourth was the Age of the Heroes; and the fifth was the Age in which Hesiod lived, the Iron (black) Age. The fourth Age is evidently a late interpolation. Authorities consider that the Heroic Age did not belong to the original scheme.

In the Greek Golden Age, men lived like the gods under the rule of Kronos; they never suffered the ills of old age, nor lost their strength; they feasted continually, and enjoyed peace and security. The whole world prospered. When this race passed away, they became beneficent spirits who watched over mankind and distributed riches. In the Silver Age mankind were inferior; children were reared up for a century and died soon afterwards; sacrifice and worship were neglected. In the end, Zeus, son of Kronos, destroyed the Silver Race. In the Bronze Age mankind sprang from the ash. They were endowed with great strength, and worked in bronze and had bronze houses, iron was unknown. But Bronze Age men were takers of life, and at length Black Death removed them all to Hades.

Zeus created the fourth race, which was represented by the semi-divine heroes of a former generation. When they fell in battle on the plains of Troy and elsewhere, Zeus consigned them to the Islands of the Blest, where they were ruled over by Kronos. The fifth Age may originally have been the fourth. As much is suggested by another Hesiodic legend which sets forth that all mankind is descended from two survivors of the Flood at the close of the Bronze Age.

…Like the early Christian annalists of Ireland, the Indian Brahmans appear to have utilized the legends which were afloat among the people. Both in the Greek and Celtic (Irish) myths, the people of the Silver Age are distinguished for their folly; in the Indian Silver or White Age the people were so perfect and holy that it was not necessary for them to perform religious ceremonies; they simply uttered the mystic word “Om”.

…One of the long-lived Indian sages was named Markandeya. In the Vana Parva section of the Mahábhárata he visits the exiled Pandava brethren in a forest, and is addressed as “the great Muni”, who has seen many thousands of ages passing away. “In this world”, says the chief exile, “there is no man who hath lived so long as thou hast. …Thou didst adore the Supreme Deity when the Universe was dissolved, and the world was without a firmament, and there were no gods and no demons. Thou didst behold the recreation of the four orders of beings when the winds were restored to their places and the waters were consigned to their proper place. …Neither death nor old age which causeth the body to decay, have any power over thee.”  Markandeya, who has full knowledge of the Past, the Present, and the Future, informs the exiles that the Supreme Being is “great, incomprehensible, wonderful, and immaculate, without beginning and without end. …He is the Creator of all, but is himself Increate, and is the cause of all power.”

…After the Universe is dissolved, all Creation is renewed, and the cycle of the four Ages begins again with Krita Yuga. “A cycle of the Yugas comprises twelve thousand divine years. A full thousand of such cycles constitutes a Day of Brahma.” At the end of each Day of Brahma, comes “Universal Destruction.””

Indian Myth and Legend, by Donald A. Mackenzie, 1913

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