MMW 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Yuga, Hindu Units Of Time, Dvapara Yuga
3 Mar 2019
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Verse 5. 154: " a good woman should always worship her husband like a god. " Quantitative and qualitative factors in the hierarchies of divinity. Study of divinity in india is split into quantitative and qualitative properties. A man is a god as long as wife is alive to worship him, vise versus. 28 indras are born and die in 1 day of brahma. Brahma day= 1,000 mah-yugs= 4. 32 billion human years. Each day begins with creation and each day ends with destruction of everything below the level of brahma. After one day of brahma is a night of brahma, also 4. 32 billion years. Brahma life= 100 brahma years= 311. 04 trillion years. Mahapralaya happens after death of brahma: the entire material universe reverts to nothingness for 311. 04 trillion years before a whole new cosmic cycle starts again, with the birth of a new brahma. Rides an elephant and his body is covered in eyes.
