One of my FB friends asked me recently how is it that Sri Ramachandra was a Role Model of all Kings from Turkey and Egypt to Indonesia? I had to explain when did Sri Ramchandra, the Blessed son of Ayodhya King Dasharatha actually lived and how he was given this name Ramachandra. The details are here. How Ramachandra became a God to us as an incarnation of Vishnu is another long story, that will come later!
We are living in a peculiar state of existence. We have no sense of what Time is and never know what 'Life' is (?) until we spend the entire time of our life, some how living! Somebody said long long back, today is Friday, the 29th Day of May, 2020. Neither we know what is this month of May, nor what this year 2020 is! Our people have forgotten the Hindu Calendar (panchang) and how we manage the paksha masa of Chandra mana and the 'Rutu mana' and the Soura Varsha? Our Calendar is of many a hundreds of thousand of years. We too have the Shalivahana shakha, Vikramaditya shakha, etc, for that matter! However, it is strange that we adhere to Christian Era due to the accidental rule of India by the British for just 350 or 400 years?!
We are living in a peculiar state of existence. We have no sense of what Time is and never know what 'Life' is (?) until we spend the entire time of our life, some how living! Somebody said long long back, today is Friday, the 29th Day of May, 2020. Neither we know what is this month of May, nor what this year 2020 is! Our people have forgotten the Hindu Calendar (panchang) and how we manage the paksha masa of Chandra mana and the 'Rutu mana' and the Soura Varsha? Our Calendar is of many a hundreds of thousand of years. We too have the Shalivahana shakha, Vikramaditya shakha, etc, for that matter! However, it is strange that we adhere to Christian Era due to the accidental rule of India by the British for just 350 or 400 years?!
This 2020 is counted from what day is the question. Some say it is AD and some say, it is CE? AD stands for 'Anno Domini', the year of the Lord. However, the Christians do not want the Lord, or God of another religion so they want the CE as the Christian Era.is. They want the Year of the Birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
Moreover, the anomaly exist in many, many, other spheres of our thinking! When two old persons aged 80+ were talking of their youth and said, 'during our times'..., a naughty boy came and said, "ajja, you are living in our times only, not any way different' and ran away! This makes us wonder what is this all about? The entire life and times appears to be a myth?
Now to this confusion is added another big confusion! We suddenly talk about Sri Ramachandra of treta yuga, and Sri Krishna of dva para yuga! Neither we know what this treta or the dva para? Actually, treta means, third. and dva is second and para is above, this 'dva' is second para, above ours kali yuga? This Kali yuga is said to last for 432000 years! Then, naturally 'treta' becomes the third from ours? So what is this second and the third if we do not know what is the first one? The first one is said to be krita or satya yuga of our vaivasvata manvantara, the Seventh from the First manvantara of our Sun Vivasvan, the Vivasvanta! Now, the time that has elapsed from the day the Sun as a star is born is about 4.56 Billion years! This Sun may lose all its energy and become a Red hot ball of rock in another 6.46 Billion years! Thus the Sun as a hot gaseous body of Hydrogen (65%) and Helium (35%) Matter is not the matter of importance here. Our Surya is one of the Twelve Adittyas among which come Vishnu. Sri Krishna (of dva para yuga?) says, Adityanam aham vishNor- jyotishamraviH…| Sri Krishna says, I am the Ravi, as also, Chandrama, the Lord of the Stars! [BG X. 21], Hence, the Sun (gross matter) is not the Ravi, Surya or Vivasvan? Chandrama or Soma is not the Moon (Satellite of the Eartyh)? Then what is this confusion galore and how to understand all these? There is some clue here. All these Western knowledge seems to be a bunkum, half knowledge. We have to go to the spiritual texts like the 40 branches of the Vedic system of knowledge (the Upanishads included). The Bhagavad-Gita also gives a beautiful account of all these. We have to study carefully every word spoken by the Lord, Bhagavan Sri Krishna in order to understand ourselves and the 'place' and 'times' we live in! Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has given a very beautiful account of the Veda and its scientific- Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Genetics, aspects, as well as, the and mathematical account of the Rk Veda, elaborating on the first verse- Agnimeelay purohitam yajnyasya devam rutvijam hotaram ratna dhatamam | His Published works are available from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic University, Jabalpur. I have got a copy that deals with these.
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