Gaur Purnima//Golden Age

[Guest guest]

Dear Natabara,

 

I forgot to ask you how you arrive at the conclusion that this GP starts a new

Golden Age - I mean this particular full moon. I have the following doubts:

 

1. The yuga cycles are described as ascending and descending. This could mean

that they repeat in the same order, but logic says NO! They should repeat in the

reverse order. How can an abrupt change from decadent Kali to noble Kripa occur

overnight without a deluge? You get to the bottom of the valley in Kali and

start ascending on the other side. History shows this too: great civilizations

degrade and die out, new ones are built up gradually.

 

So I would expect the cycles to be "descending Kali" to be followed by

"ascending Kali" dwapara etc till Kripa, when everything is more or less okay.

This Will be followed by change, for the system is dynamic and always in flux.

But any change from perfection means imperfection: in other words after

"ascending Kripa" things will gradually deteriorate, "descending Kripa" will

start and end with "descending Kali". This allows of gradual transformation at

both ends.

 

So I expect that the next period will be an improving Kali, not a Kripa!

 

2. As to the date, I am sceptical about Indian dating. The accurate observations

were broken after the moslem conquest of India and we now rely on uncertain

sources. The siddhanthas like surya siddhantha, while remarkably accurate, are

still fukll of discrepacies, which count.

 

True Hindu astronomy stopped with the destruction of the great universities at

Nalanda, Taxila and Ujjain. Varahamihira did not live around 1000 AD as western

historians say, but around 400 BC! The discrepancies in the siddhanthas -

considered by westerners to have been written about a 1000 years ago - could be

because of poor astronomical knowledge. But more likely, they are only copies of

texts compiled many thousands of years before that! The nadis also show similar

discrepancies in giving positions, esp. for saturn and venus. I think that they

were written very far back and that these planets have changed in orbit and/or

rate after that.

 

In contrast the Maya calendar shows much greater accuracy. Since their calendar

ends with the year 2012 AD, I would expect the New Kali to start in that year.

 

Any comments from a Mexican who finally answered my question re. how America got

its name?

 

regards

Mani