Basis for the Yugas
Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri in The Holy Science quotes from Manu Samhia written by Saint Manu of Satya Yuga explaining the Yuga cycle as follows:
Four thousands of years is the Krita yuga (Satya Yuga).
Its morning twilight havs hundreds just as many and evening twilight has same length.
The other three ages and their twilights, the thousands and hundreds gradually decrease by one.
This fourfold cycle is called the Age of Gods. Thousand such ages make one day of Brahma and of the same length is Brahma’s night.
The above can be summed up as follows:
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| Yuga | Pre- transition | Yuga Proper | Post- transition | Total |
| Satya or Krita Yuga | 400 | 4000 | 400 | 4800 |
| Treta Yuga | 300 | 3000 | 300 | 3600 |
| Dwapara Yuga | 200 | 2000 | 200 | 2400 |
| Kali Yuga | 100 | 1000 | 100 | 1200 |
| Total (one half cycle of sun’s revolution and is called Daiva Yuga – Age of Gods) | 12000 | |||
What is the Present Yuga?
Dwapara yuga started in 1699 AD. The present year 2010 is 310 years into Ascending Dwapara Yuga. The following table shows the time line.
| Period | Description | Remarks |
| 11501 BC | Autumnal Equinox was on the first point of Aries, San started moving away from the nearest point to the grand center.
Descending Satya Yuga started. |
During the 4800 years, man lost the power of understanding spiritual knowlege. |
| 6701 BC | Descending Treta Yuga started. | During the next 3600 years, Intellect lost further the understanding of divine magnetism. |
| 3101 BC | Descending Dwapara Yuga started | During the next 2400 years, Intellect lost the power of understanding electricities and its attributes. |
| 701 BC | Descending Kali Yuga started | During the next 1200 years, Intellect lost most of its power of understanding anything beyond creation |
| 499 AD | Sun reached farthest point from the grand center in its cycle. This is the darkest period of the total cycle of
24000 years. |
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| 499 AD | Sun started moving in reverse and the ascending Kali Yuga started |
During the next 1100 years of Kaliyuga, the human intellect remained ignorant and no comprehension of the fine matters of creation. In 1599 AD the transition time from Kali yuga started and men began to observe the fine matters (pancha tanmatraas) or the attributes of electricity. Political peace also started getting established. 1600 AD William Gilbert discovered magnetic forces. 1609 AD Kepler discovered laws of astronomy, Galileo inented telescope. 1621 AD Drebbal of Holland invented microscope. 1670 AD Newton discovered law of gravitation
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| 1699 AD | Ascending Dwapara yuga (sandhi period) started |
1700 AD Thomas Savery made use of a steam engine in raising water. 1720 AD Stephen Gray discovered action of electricity on human body. 1873 AD James Maxwell – theory of electro magnetism 1895 AD Rontgen – discovers X rays 1896 AD Henri BecQuerel discovers radio activity 1897 AD JJ Thomson discovers electron in cathode rays
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1899 |
200 years transition time of Ascending Dwapara ended and Dwapara proper started. |
1900 AD Max Plank – Law of black body radiation 1915 AD Albert Einstein Theory of general relativity 1925 AD Schrodinger equation (Quantum mechanics) 1927 AD Heisenburg principle (Quantum mechanics) 1947 AD First transistor invented by Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain 1971 AD Microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor. 1979 AD Cell phone 1989 AD High Definition color TV 1990 AD World Wide Web |
