[Advaita-l] Previous Kali Yugas in Shastras?

[D.V.N.Sarma డి.వి.ఎన్.శర్మ]

Why do not we conclude that there were no previous Kaliyugas and we are in
the only one that exists.

regards,
Sarma.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 7:31 AM, Santosh Rao via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaskara Bhaskar,
>
> Yes that is what I was asking. Since we have many detailed histories
> recorded from previous yugas in different manavantaras and kalpas, I was
> curious about why they seem to be silent about Kalki avatara....since time
> is cyclical, there must have been an innumerous amount of Kalki avataras
> that have already descended, yet we have no stories about them.
>
> Santosh
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 2:20 AM, Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > praNAms Sri Subbu prabhuji
> > Hare Krishna
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Ø     Yes, he is asking about the events in previous kali yuga /s, events
> > like : rAmAyaNa in treta yuga, mahAbhArata in dvApara yuga etc. have been
> > accounted and referred in kali yuga but there is no mention of any such
> > event  in previous kali yuga/s why and if it is happened in one of the
> > previous kali yuga-s why it has not been recorded and available for us is
> > his question…am I right understanding your doubt Sri Santosh prabhuji??
> > For that I guessed the answer and said there will be talking about only
> > bygone yuga events excluding the events occurred in present yuga i.e.
> kali
> > yuga.  The talk about the kali yuga events & other yuga evens might have
> > taken place  in other yuga-s again leaving then existing  yuga.
> >
> > Ø
> >
> > Ø    I wondered and asked my guruji a question about list of brahma
> > jnAni-s in the br. Up. How come names like bhagavat pAda, ramaNa
> maharshi,
> > list of jagadguru-s whom we consider utmost Atma jnAni-s not finding the
> > place in this list if the Upanishads are  yugAteeta / kaalaateeta
> > apaurusheya text ??  why it is restricted to some rishi parampara names
> > when we have somany Atma jnAni-s (in kali yuga shankara, gaudapaada,
> ramaNa
> > etc. etc.) who are worthy to be found place in this list ??  How
> Upanishad
> > ignored their names when the cycle of yuga-s finding the same characters
> /
> > events again and again ??
> >
> > Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> > bhaskar
> >
> > 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?
> >
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