The four Yugas or Time Periods of Hindu Mythology - 3 May 09

03 May 2009  Wiesbaden, Germany

Category: Philosophy

Swami ji & Yashendu

Yesterday I wrote about my fantasy. I say now it is a fantasy but it is a matter of consciousness. If everybody’s consciousness developed in this way, I don’t think that it will be difficult to achieve this goal and to create our environment in this way that it is like my fantasy: pure and full of love.

In Hindu mythology there is the concept of the four yugas. Each of these yugas is a specific period of time. The names of these yugas are: Satyug, Tretayug, Dwaparyug and Kaliyug. There is a lot of explanation in the scriptures but for my diary I would like to try to explain it in a short way.

If you explain it with colours, Satyug is 100% white, so full honesty and truth. Tretayug would be 75% white and 25% black colour. Dwaparyug would be 50% black and 50% white. And the colours for Kaliyug would be 25% white and 75% black.

White is honesty and truth and black dishonesty and lies. And this is how the scriptures tell us that times change and with each time there is a different amount or level of honesty in this world. First there was Satyug, then Tretayug, then Dwaparyug and finally Kaliyug. The scriptures also tell how long each period of time is. My fantasy would be the time of Satyug, when there is no destructive mind.

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The Mayans believed there were four time period of earth too, or rather that there were four complete cycles. According to them, we are in the last and final cycle. Curious!

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