🐎 THE BRAHMINS CHRONOLOGY

by @LygiaCabus

What year is it? 2024 of the Christian Era; but not so much; or not so little. Calendars are relative, they are established according to milestones considered more or less historical in the context of different cultures.

The current year is 2024 of the Christian Era; 20254 in the Gregorian calendar, which has this name because it was promulgated by Pope Gregory XIII on February 24, 1582 ─ replacing its predecessor, the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar, therefore, was introduced less than 500 years ago [in 2024 AD].

According to the old Julian calendar, the current year would be 2024. Among Muslims, the year that counts is 1442  [after the Mohammedan Hijra ─ the flight of the precursor leader of Islam, Mohammed ─ Muhammad or Mohammed, leaving Mecca for Medina, in 622 AD].

The word calendar and its concept come from the Latin, kalendae, the Latin designation for the first day of each month [NEW SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY].

Kalenda was the day to pay bills and the calendarium, by associative extension of ideas, is also a record book [of values ​​and debtors].

The Gregorian calendar is the one that prevails in the Western world and, to a certain extent, is the world standard for counting time.

However, for other purposes, related to the cultural traditions of different nations, old calendars continue to be respected and followed.

Although very traditional, the Jewish calendar is not the oldest. According to the Egyptian calendar, 2024 corresponds to the year 7526.

Even more ancient peoples also have more millennia of historical records: Mesopotamians, Chinese, Japanese, Hindus, Tibetans.

However, according to theosophical occultists, the earliest time count recorded in ancient scriptures is found in India, more precisely, in the libraries of the most remote monasteries in the Himalayan region, bordering Tibet.

The Tradition of the Secret Doctrine states that the chronology of the Brahmins goes back to the creation of this solar system, and follows the formation of the planets, the Earth, and the organic and inorganic, physical and metaphysical material forms. 

Brahmin  Sanskrit word. Priest, educator, scholar  ─ brahmane, brahmin, in English. Individual of the priestly caste, the first, the highest of the four main castes of Indian society [BLAVATSKY, 1995]. They are also called Vipra [wise men], Dvija, twice-born or Bhūsura god on earth, earthly gods.

The Brahmin calendar records the emergence of the first prototypes of egoic individuals of human nature; the cycles of the Ages, of the birth, growth, decay and death of different Humanities and forms of civilization.

The Brahmin chronology offers records of billions of years! Here are the main milestones of this fantastic geo-cosmic journey:

Age of this Solar Planetary system [em 2009]	1 billion 995 million 884 thousand 809 years
Age of the First Human Race rise [ethereal]	1 billion 644 million 501 thousand 109 years
Current Age of Humanity ─ Fifth Human Race	18 million 618 thousand 728 years
Duration of Kali-Yuga, Current Era	432 thousand years
Current KaliYuga time already elapsed [2024]	5100 years

 

Ages of this Universe

The Universe has no calendar; because the marking of time depends on a reference, a zero point that defines a beginning. However, as far as human intelligence can conceive, the Universe is or should be Eternal. And eternity has neither beginning nor end.

What the Brahmin chronology measures or intends to measure and record are the cycles of activity and rest of the Universe, these, yes, according to the Secret Doctrine, are periods that can be measured in earthly years. The numbers of this Brahmin calendar, despite being astronomical, are surprisingly well defined.

This does not mean that they are exact numbers or that the changes between cycles and eras are abrupt.

Brahma day, one Kalpa  or one Manvatara	4 billion 320 million years
Night of Brahma or Pralaya	4 billion 320 million years
A Day and  a Night of Brahma	8 billion 640 million years
Current Year since the beginning of this Manvatara	4 billion  319 million  573 thousand  111,,, years

The cycles of Life in the Universe are similar to the biological clock that regulates the lives of human beings. The Universe is Brahma, the Whole, the All Things in One. God. God rests and awakens for His days and nights.

In one period, He Creates Diversity, the Cosmos in multiple manifestations of Himself. In another period, He Uncreates ─ He gathers [and withdraws into] all things and returns to being One in Himself.

Pralaya Sanskrit. Night of Brahma. Period of obscurity or repose, whether planetary, cosmic or universal. It is the period of relative or total dissolution, sleep or repose of the Universe, which supervenes at the end of a Day, an Age or a life of Brahma. ... During the long Night of rest or sleep of the Universe, Universal Pralaya, when all Existences are dissolved, the universal Mind remains as a possibility of mental action or as that Abstract Absolute Thought... Then all cosmic ideation ceases, because there is nothing and no one to perceive its effects. Brahma, the divinity itself, is in a latent state... [The variety of beings, of substances] dissolves into the primordial state of abstract potential objectivity. [BLAVASTKY, 1995]

The Secret Doctrine of the Brahmins calls the period of creation Manvatara, the Day of Brahma or Kalpa. The Rest of God is Pralaya, the Night of Brahma.

Manvatara Sanskrit. Period of manifestation of the Universe,  as opposed to Pralaya [rest or dissolution]. The term is applied to several cycles, especially to a day of Brahma, which comprises 432 billion solar years. Each Manvatara is divided into 14 periods, each under the rule of a patron or guardian called Manu. The present period of the present Manvatara is the seventh, and the guardian of this period is Manu Vaivasvata [BLAVASTKY, 1995].

It is as if God slept and woke up; what this researcher has not yet resolved is whether God creates while awake or asleep. Whether the Universe is the activity of God or whether the Universe is a Dream/Nightmare of God. Let's meditate...

KALI YUGA

Since God has Eternity to Sleep and Wake, His Days and Nights, which have equal durations, are infinitely long in relation to the human time scale.

The current year [2024 AD] according to the Brahminical chronology could be:

YEAR 5126 ─ since the death of Khrisna, when the current Kali Yuga or the Age of Kali or the Age of Iron began.

In other words, we are on the line of a time of great misfortunes; in fact, even disregarding the inaccuracies in the calculations of scholars, the End is delayed by just over 100 years.

[+/- 3102 BC, the year of Khrisna's death = YEAR ZERO of the CURRENT KALI YUGA. + 2024 years AD exceeds the 5 thousand years of the historical cycle of this Humanity in this KALI YUGA]. "The Time is near."

SOURCES:

BLAVATSKY, Helena Petrovna. Antropogênese. 

In A Doutrina Secreta vol. III. [Trad. Raymundo Mendes Sobral]. São Paulo: Pensamento, 2001.

...............................................Glossário Teosófico. 

[Trad. Silvia Branco Sarzana]. São Paulo: Ground, 1995.