CH 8, Verse 17

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Chapter 8

Verse 17

 

Sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad.h brahmano viduh /

raatri.n yuga-sahasr'aantaa.n te'ho-raatra-vido janaah

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Those who know that the day of Brahma is a thousand

Yugas (ages) long and that his night lasts a thousand

Yugas, they are knowers of day and night.

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 81

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

 

"Those who know that the day of Brahma is a thousand

Yugas (ages) long and that his night lasts a thousand

Yugas, they are knowers of day and night.”

 

Why are the worlds, including that of Brahma, subject

to recurrence? Because they are finite in time. The

Lord further gives a description of the duration of

the duration of day and night of Brahma. The day of

Brahma is a thousand Yugas (ages) and the night

another thousand Yugas. There are four Yugas (ages)

namely, Satya Yuga, (also known as Krita Yuga,) Treta

Yuga, Dvapara Yuga and Kali Yuga. The duration of

Satya Yuga is 1,728,000 years. Treta Yuga’s duration

of 1,296,000 years, that of Dvapara Yuga is 864,000

years and of Kali Yuga 432,000 years. The total

duration of one cycle of four Yugas thus comes to

4,320,000 years.

 

One thousand cycles of the four Yugas form the day of

Brahma and one thousand similar cycles make a night.

365 such days and nights make one year of Brahma. A

hundred such years constitute his life span. Thus,

Brahma’s life span is also conditioned by time.

 

He who is the knower of day and night knows even the

movements of the days and nights of Brahma. He knows

that even Brahma, the creator is a Jeeva marching

towards liberation. After his span of life at the time

of Maha Pralaya, the whole universe dissolves and he

merges in the Supreme Brahman leaving the place for

the succeeding Brahma. Thus although Brahma’s span of

life expands into infinity it is also delimited by

time. He has his own days and nights, his own life

span and his own liberation. He who understands this

truth, understands the cosmic plan of the Lord and so

he is styled as the real knower of day and night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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