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Question - 17
There is also a notion that a Yuga has 12,000 years, classified into Krita, Treta, Dwapara and Kali. How is it justified?
Answer:
The yuga duration running into lakhs of years (refer Question -16) is also expressed in small numbers pertaining to the year of the 'Deva-s' having 12,000 Divya years which are equal to 43,20,000 human years.
A human year = 1 solar year
1 solar year = 1
day of the Deva-s.
360
solar years = 360 days of the Deva-s = 1 year of the Deva-s.
Applying
this equation to the four yugas explained earlier,
Kali
yuga = 4,32,000 / 360 = 1200 Deva years
Dwapara
yuga = 8,64,000 / 360 = 2400 Deva years
Treta yuga = 12,96,000
/ 360 = 3600 Deva years
Kṛta
Yuga = 17,28,000 / 360 = 4800 Deva years
The equation is, 43,20,000 solar years (applicable to human life) = 12,000 Deva years.
A thousand of 12,000 Deva years constitute a day of Brahma.
= 12,000 x 1000 = 1,20,00,000 Deva years
Equating it with the solar years
followed by us,
432,00,00,000
solar years = 1,20,00,000 Deva years.
This is the duration of a Kalpa which means a day or night of Creator God, the Four-faced Brahma.
To express the time period in Deva Years, the 12,000 Divya year classification was given.
The
Deva year duration given in many texts is mis-construed as solar years
applicable to human life on earth, such that we often come across people
wrongly promoting the Deva year duration of 12,000 in a Catur Maha yuga to the
yuga classification for human life. Readers must be cautious in not making that
mistake.
