[Advaita-l] Previous Kali Yugas in Shastras?

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste

It strains credulity to claim that every chaturyoga cycle has the same
events repeated in a loop over and over again . The comparison of pralaya
with suShupti is indicative of a fact. Just as we might say, we wake up
every morning and brush and bathe and do the sandhyA, exercise  etc, that
does not mean the exact same scenes are enacted every morning. It's only a
broad  template that's repeated . Similarly every 4 yoga cycle would have
the usual battles between the forces of dharma and adharma etc.. Where the
puraana talks of repetition of the stories in different Yuga's,  it's only
to inculcate alam-buddhi (enough is enough) towards this world of names and
forms and enquire in to the root cause of suffering instead of looking for
palliatives.

 Besides even kakabhusundi in brihad yoga vashishtha says that ramayana has
different outcomes in different cycles. It's not exactly identical
everytime.

The basic laws governing the universe at the physical and subtle levels
remain same in every cycle , otherwise the law of karma would get negated
and continuity of karma phala and samskaras across the cycles would be not
maintained , and this is contrary to shruti. Except for such a basic common
apitu across Yugas and kalpas, all else is not a mere repetition.

Om



On Wed 13 Jun, 2018, 11:41 AM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Bhaskar ji,
>
> Santhosh Rao was asking about the 'previous' Kali yuga-s.  We admit four
> yugas, as a set, keep occurring in a rotation. This is called one
> chatur-yuga. He was asking about the Kali yuga of  the previous chatur
> yugas.  Is there any talk about the kali yuga of the earlier chatur yuga in
> any of the scriptural works.  I think one possible place is the Briihad
> Yoga Vasishtha where there is mention of 'many Ramayanas and Mahabharatas
> have happened before'. This I guess is in the BhushunDa akyayika.
>
> regards
> subbu
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 9:23 AM, Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > praNAms Sri Santosh prabhuji
> > Hare Krishna
> >
> > One of the reasons I reckon is,  there will not be talk about current /
> > present yuga and in the current yuga i.e. kaliyuga there will be talk and
> > references only about the previous yuga-s.  There might be  a talk /
> > reference about kaliyuga,  deteriorating dharma and consequences of it in
> > satya, treata and dvApara yuga-s.  There will be a preaching in those
> > yugas' people like : see the fate of kaliyuga due to dharma bAhira
> > krutya-s, don’t do like that etc. Just a wild guess:-) The true reason I
> > donot know.
> >
> > Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> > bhaskar
> >
> >
> >
> > Namaskara,
> >
> > In the shastras we see events from previous yugas in previous eons
> > described in detail, why don't we see any events from previous kali yugas
> > similarly described? Is it because in kali yuga there are no righteous
> > people left to record and pass down tradition? Or is there another
> reason?
> >
> > Santosh
> >
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