The Great Year
This could be confusing if you let it. But it is really easy to understand if you try. What I discovered was, both our sun and our dual star Sirius, rotated around each other in a period of 24,000. This period of 24,000 years caused the different ages on planet earth. As the suns get close together, the Golden Age is predominant. Then as they start to move away from each other, the earth experiences a Silver Age, then a Bronze Age, and finally at their furtherest point away from each other, they are in the Iron Age where consciousness is diminished by 75% or more. That time is known as the dark ages or Kali Yuga. In their rotation, Sirius and our sun leave their distant locations, traveling rapidly towards each other once again, thus ascending towards Satya Yuga. In this way the yugas are constantly ascending and descending as the suns revolve around each other.
The calculation of the ages was based on one full cycle of our sun making its revolution around Sirius and was known as the Precession of the Equinoxes as the earth moved through each of the 12 astrological constellations. I discovered during my lifetime we were moving through the end of Pisces and beginning to move into the age of Aquarius. (From right to left below. - thus the term precession.)
The 24,000 year cycle goes through one constellation for a period of between 2000 to 2160 years, slowing down during the Iron Age and speeding up during the Golden Age, thus you have different opinions of the exact timing of either 24,000 years of 25,920 years. The four ages and their characteristics are as follows:
Satya Yuga - the Golden Age - the Spiritual Age, is known as a time when people lived long lives, filled with peace, living in full consciousness, using all of their senses and 100% of their brain. Everyone was equal, so there was no hierarchy. Their spirituality was at the height of awareness and society was matriarchal. Meditation was the process of Ascension.
Treta Yuga - the Silver Age - the Mental Age, ushered in patriarchy and consciousness was diminished by 25% as kings appeared and warring began. The performance of opulent yajnas or sacrifices was the method for Spiritual Advancement.
Dwapara Yuga - the Bronze Age - the Energy Age, further diminished consciousness to 50% and rulers and kings were becoming more and more treacherous. Gods and Goddesses were worshipped in the form of idols in temples with great festivals and ceremonies for advancement in Spiritual Life.
Kali Yuga - the Iron Age - the Material or Dark Age, brings about an ignorance of spirituality so strong that most people cannot understand the most basic principles of consciousness and have mostly lost all spirituality, being diminished by 75%. Chanting the Holy Names was the method of Self Realization.
By this chart, adapted from Sri Yukteswar Swami’s description, I could see we had moved out of Kali Yuga and were ascending upwards into Dwapara Yuga and things were getting better in many ways. I could personally see this all around me. The energy age was in full swing and yet my peers were saying we were going deeper into the age of Kali.
Discovering this from my simple internet searches was one of the most satisfying and enlightening discoveries of my life. Why? Because, since I was 23 years old, I was told the ages were much longer than this 24,000 year revolution, information I found very disturbing and inconceivable. The numbers were staggering!
From “The Holy Science,” Sri Yukteswara Swami wrote, “astronomers have been guided by wrong annotations of certain Sanskrit scholars such as Kulluka Batta of the dark age of Kali Yuga, and now maintain the length of Kali Yuga is 432,000 years. A dark prospect and fortunately, one not true.”
How Sanskrit Scholars Mis-translated the
Time Periods of the Yugas
Thinking that human years were daiva (demigod) years, translators of ancient scriptures multiplied the human years times 360 days.
One more proof of the 24,000 year precession of the equinoxes is the time frame given by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur, my beloved great grandfather guru, in his introduction to the Krishna Samhita. There he described, in the form of a chart, the Ruling Dynasties and the time periods when they ruled. There was no mention of 432,000 years or 864,000 years or anything so outrageous. Below is a list made from the chart provided by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur in the introduction to the “Krishna Samhita,” describing the ruling dynasties to date.
Dynasty’s Name, Meaning of Name -
Duration of Rule - Date Began
Sri Yukteswar Swami’s calculations and Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur’s Dynastic Rule Chart are basically the same and are described below.
Yukteswar Giri - Silver Age 4500 BC
Bhaktivinoda Thakur - Chart, 4463 BC
Also please note that Sri Yukteswar Giri (1838-1914) and Bhaktivinoda Thakur (1855-1936) lived around the same time period.
Bhaktivinoda’s chart is dealing with Dynastic Times - Not Pre-Dynastic Times known as the Spiritual Age or Satya Yuga when there was no ruling class and there was no need to have a written language.
Once again, from my understanding of Satya Yuga, there were no rulers in Pre-Dynastic times (thus the classification pre) because there was no quarrel! Everyone was equal and society was Matriarchal. (Right Brain) Rulers did not appear until Treta Yuga, the Silver age. If you add the 4,800 years of the descending cycle of Satya Yuga to the figures above, you will come up a little short of 12,000 years so the calculations are not perfect, but NOWHERE does Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur say anything about 864,000 years in Dwarka Yuga or 1,296,000 years in Treta Yuga before the beginning of Kali Yuga.
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur also described in his introduction to “Krishna Samhita,” that the battle between the Kauravas and the Pandavas took place 775 years after the victory of Ramacandra over Lanka.
However, most Hindus insist that Sri Ramacandra was born over 2,000,000 years in the past! Someone grossly miscalculated!
For those of you who never heard of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur, he was considered to be the Seventh Goswami who wrote astounding books and songs giving us an intricate path to achieve union with god. Was this chart given by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur too much for the devotees to reconcile?
What scholars, philosophers and spiritualists all agreed upon is, we did not have all the answers to the history of mankind on this earth, especially since we were just coming out of the age of darkness when our capacity to understand higher truths was diminished by 75% or more. But philosophers and astronomers explained that even in the age of Kali, there were a few great souls who were given this secret knowledge of the ages. Pythagoras and Plato were two. Sri Yukteswar Swami may have been another. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur appeared to be another.
But I asked myself how these ancient philosophers, as well as current era mathematicians and astronomers, came up with this 24,000 year cycle. It was simple:
They observed the constellations move one (1) degree every seventy-two years. There are 30 degrees in one constellation, thus 72 years x 30 degrees = 2160. Twelve constellations in our zodiac x 2160 = 25,920 years. The adjustment for 24,000 years is made because the suns (stars) speed up as they get closer together. Then, these scientists and philosophers checked that figure against Sri Yukteswar’s calculations and accepted it to be true.
I personally needed just a little more information because I was still under the influence of the cult teachings myself. Finally, I found Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur’s description of the time when the earth came under the rule of kings, known as the Dynastic Period. That did it for me!
So, unfortunately, the society I was a part of (in and out) for many years, believed in the erroneous calculations made by Kulluka Batta because our spiritual masters simply accepted the calculation without question. After all, knowledge was passed down from teacher to teacher for thousands of years. Our spiritual masters were obviously more concerned with giving Bhakti than they were with the time periods described in their translations. Why should they challenge those calculations?
Anyway, fool that I am, I dared to tell the truth of what I discovered. I began by telling my closest friends. They were skeptical. Then I found one scholar from Sweden who read my booklet on the subject and was 100% convinced that I had found the Amazing Truth of the Ages! His influence amongst the (large brain) men in Iskcon started the conversation rolling. But most of the cult, as you can imagine, were not able to accept the findings. They adamantly opposed the truth lying right before their eyes, without even investigating. “Condemnation without investigation is the height of folly!” Einstein said. This is what cult consciousness did to people! It stopped people from questioning. I expected nothing less. I was right.
But for myself, I was delighted to have discovered this truth. When we began to ascend in Dwapara Yuga, I could feel a shift in my consciousness. Something happened around 12/21/2012. I was researching like crazy and it all started making sense! Understanding was getting easier!
And why did I care how long Kali Yuga lasts? Was it because I could see for years we were plainly not moving backwards but forwards and I needed to prove it to myself? After all, I would be dead and gone when things really started to improve as we moved closer to Sirius, although I was already feeling the effects of the ascending age. So I wondered why I cared? For some reason my heart was overjoyed at the thought that there was a much better chance of reaching my goal if I returned to this planet directly after this birth, as we were moving closer to Sirius. The Bhagavad Gita states that we ‘take up where we left off’ spiritually, and I was depending on that to be true. It would be wonderful if my spiritual understanding carried forth in an age when consciousness was developed 50% instead of instead of being stuck at 25% or less.
If I did not lose any spiritual advancement when I took my next birth, the chance for me to become enlightened with the ages progressing towards Satya once again, would be a great help and not a hinderance from a devolving Kali Yuga. I mean, if I were becoming less and less able to understand truth as Kali advanced, then what would be my chance in the next birth to achieve the goal? Not very good. So, KNOWING that Kali was over - made me feel GREAT! I just needed to keep practicing my meditation and hopefully, eventually, go deep into samadhi, maybe even in this lifetime. My faith and hope were increasing.