A Day In Life Of Brahma

A day in life of Brahma How insignificant are we? Why this ego?

Life of Brahma

Scale of Time: Smallest to Biggest Unit of Time

A day in Life of Brahma: How big is Kaliyuga • Lets assume the smallest unit of time is Kaliyuga • One Mahayuga comprises 4 yugas viz. Satya, Treta, Dwapara and Kali in the ratio 4:3:2:1. Meaning Satya Yuga is 4 times as long as Kaliyuga. So in all, one Mahayuga is 10 times the duration of Kaliyuga • 4 Yugas = 1 Mahayuga = Life of Deva = 12,000 divine year = 4,320,000 human years • At the end of each Mahayuga there is very very very small and insignificant destruction • Kaliyuga = 1000 + 100 + 100 divine years = 1200 “Divine Years” • Life span of “Devas” is equal to 1 Mahayuga i.e. 10 Kaliyuga duration

A day in Life of Brahma: Manavantara and Sandhya

• Sandhya: Universe is partially re-created at the beginning and partially destroyed at the end. The duration of this creation and destruction is 2 kaliyuga duration each (4 in total) • Manvantara: In the middle of creation and destruction is the active part which lasts 710 Kaliyuga duration (71 Mahyuga) • Think of Sandhya as the “quick power nap time” for Brahma during his working day

A day in Life of Brahma: Manavantara and Sandhya • In one day of Brahma there are 14 Manvantara and 15 Sandhya which come in cycle one after another like phases – Try fitting 14 light and 15 dark strips in a line • Think of it like one day of Brahma has 14 “active” phases and 15 “non active” phase. Easy way to remember is thinking of this as a lunar month with some dark (amayasya) and some lit (Purnima) days. Just that dark and light phases are not equal in duration • Now the interesting fact is that duration of Manvantara and Sandhya is NOT equal. The ratio is 710:4 i.e. universe is active 710 times and not active 4 times • The 4 part in which it is not active is split into two equal halves – 2 parts for partial creation and other two half for partial destruction

A day in Life of Brahma: Manavantara and Sandhya • So in a day of Brahma there are 14 Manvantara and 15 Sandhya. Manvantara is 710 times the duration of Kaliyuga and Sandhya is 4 times the duration of Kaliyua 1 day of Brahma Manvantara Sandhya

Frequency Duration (In Kaliyuga Terms) Total 14 710 9940 15 4 60 Total 10000 Kaliyuga Duratioon

• Manvantara is “work time” and Sandhya is “quick power nap time” of Brahma (Crude analogy for easy understanding)

A day in Life of Brahma: Kalpa

• So in a day of Brahma there are 14 Manvantara and 15 Sandhya. • One day of Brahma is called “Kalpa” • So what happens next day? • Next day Brahma is sleeping after the hard work of the previous day • When he is sleeping the universe is Destroyed • When Brahma dies the universe is FULLY destroyed • So in all there are FOUR destruction  Mini Destruction one after each MahaYuga  Partial destruction after each Manvantara  Destruction when Braham is sleeping  FULL destruction when Brahma dies

How long does Brahma live • Brahma lives for 100 years • His 1 year has 12 months • His 1 month have 30 days • His 1 day is called kalpa • One kalpa is as long as 10,000 kaliyuga duration of 1000 mahayuga duration • FUN FACT: Life of Brahma is just one breath of Vishnu! • Are you baffled? GOOD! You just realized how insignificant you are on the scale of time!

How Big is the “known” universe? • Now that we know how insignificant we are on the scale of time, it may be a good idea to see how insignificant we are in space

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Where are we in Time • Brahma lives 100 years and we are in the 51st year • We are in the first day of Brahma’s 51st year i.e. Brahma just had his 50th birthday yesterday • Within that we are in the mid day (7th Manvantara) • In that Manvantara we are in the 28th cycle (We know there are 71 cycle in each Manavantara) • Within this Manavantara we are in the 5000th year of 432,000 long kaliyuga • Krishna just came 5000 years back LUCKY US! Krishna is our contemporary!