It is fair to say that certain astronomical theories have been generally accepted as provable scientific facts; the Earth spins on its axis; the Moon revolves around the Earth; all the planets and moons in the solar system revolve around the Sun; the Sun and its system of planets and moons revolve around some distant star for about 24,000 years, a celestial phenomenon which results in the backward movement of the equinoctial points around the zodiac, also known as the precession of the equinoxes.
There is still considerable conjecture on planet Earth, however, over the theory that the solar system revolves around what yogi’s know as the Grand Centre of the Universe (Vihnunabhi), also known to the holy men of India as the seat of all creative power in existence (Brahma or the Universal Magnetism), the force which regulates the mental virtue of the internal world of Mankind (Dharma).
When the Sun, in its revolution round its distant dual in our binary solar system, comes to a place nearest the Grand Centre, with the Autumnal Equinox at the first point of Aries, consciousness becomes so well developed that Mankind easily comprehends all knowledge worth knowing, including the formerly fathomless mysteries of Eternal Spirit; that which has neither a beginning or an end.
Twelve thousand years later, when the Sun and its system of planets and moons are furthest from the Grand Centre and the Autumnal Equinox is at the first point of Libra, Dharma is so incapacitated that Mankind loses its ability to comprehend all but the objects of the five physical senses, and the solar system’s journey back towards the centre of creation begins once again, as does the enlightenment of consciousness.
These two 12,000 years cycles are known as the Electric Couple and each bring about complete transformation, both internally in the intellectual or electric world, and externally in the material world. Since the development of conscious, blissful existence is a gradual process, as is its decline, each 12,000 year period is divided into four stages, each of which is divided into two equal periods of ascension and descent:
Kali Yuga Ascending/Descending, each lasting 1,200 years, during which the Sun passes through 1/20th of its orbit and Mankind learns/forgets how to comprehend that which is not perceived by sight, sound, taste, touch and smell; the grand illusion of Maya; belief in that which is false knowledge.
Dwapara Yuga Ascending/Descending, each lasting 2,400 years, during which the Sun passes through 2/20th’s of its orbit and Mankind learns/forgets how to comprehend electricity and its attributes; the fundamental creative principals of the external world.
Treta Yuga Ascending/Descending, each lasting 3,600 years, during which the Sun passes through 3/20th’s of its orbit and Mankind learns/forgets how to comprehend divine magnetism; the source of all electrical forces, upon which all of creation depends for its very existence.
Satya Yuga Ascending/Descending, each lasting 4,800 years, during which the Sun passes though 4/20th’s of its orbit and Mankind learns/forgets how to comprehend the Supreme Reality of Eternal Spirit; the only real substance in existence.
The Indian law maker, Manu, a great sage from this solar system’s last Satya Yuga (Descending), succinctly describes the passing ages in this extract from Manu Samhita, which formed the basis for the ancient laws of the planet during the last Golden Age, not just Hindu philosophy:
“Four thousands of years, they say, is the Krita Yuga (Satya Yuga or the “Golden Age” of the world). Its morning twilight has just as many hundreds, and its period of evening dusk is of the same length (400+4000+400=4,800). In the three other ages, with their morning and evening twilights, the thousands and hundreds decrease by one (300+3000+300=3,600). That forefold cycle comprising 12,000 years is called an Age of the Gods. The sum of a thousand divine ages constitutes one day of Brahma; and the same length is its night.”
http://freetheplanet.net/articles/217/the-laws-of-manu-chapter-one
Not being cognisant of the Solar Age we are actually experiencing is a considerable handicap to our connection to the Earth, its solar system and the multiverse beyond. This fundamental realisation led my research into a body of work so rich in divinity that it cured me of the atheism I had been afflicted with since I was eight years old.
The Myth of Kali Yuga
According to historical and archeological evidence, around 700 BC, Yudhisthira, the King of Indraprastha, Hastinapura and undisputed Emperor of the world, began to notice, along with the wise men of his court, the descending darkness of Kali Yuga. Yudhisthira was reluctant to announce this to the people of his kingdom, since he was concerned that the discouraging news would result in the kind of chaos he was attempting to avert for the highest benefit of all.
With regret, Yudhisthira decided to retire to the Himalayas with his brothers and closest associates, entrusting the kingdom to his grandson, Raja Parikshit, whose advisers knew as little as the young king about the significance of the information contained in the almanacs he now held in trust, let alone how to observe that the entire solar system was moving away from the Grand Centre, rather than towards it, in one of two elliptical motions which each last 12,000 years. Consequently, the end of the Age of Dwapara and the descent of Kali Yuga were not recorded in the almanacs at the correct time.
When Kali Yuga was last in ascendance, from around 500 AD, in the aftermath of the darkest period of the Grand Cycle, as consciousness began to reawaken, the wise men of India noticed the mistake and corrected the almanacs, but not without making an error of their own, based upon the calculations of sanskrit scholar, Kalluka Bhatta.
Whilst it was correctly recorded that the beginning of the descending Kali Yuga was around 700 BC, it was also miscalculated that the new age of Kali would last for 1,200 days of Brahma or 432,000 years, instead of 1,200 years. As Swami Sri opined in The Holy Science, that really would be a dark prospect for humanity, if it were true, which astronomical evidence emphatically asserts it is not.
Nevertheless, Kalluka Bhatta’s miscalculation has resulted in some otherwise credible academics, teachers, researchers and gurus believing that conscious experience on this planet is getting darker, for all but the enlightened few who dedicate themselves to the service of others, rather than the service of the egoistic self, as we edge nearer to the apparent end of the Mayan calendar on the 21st of December 2012.
It is my contention that this miscalculation was the catalyst for Mankind’s ingorance of its place in the Universe. Even if the commonly held interpretations of the Mayan Prophesies prove to be correct, it is still difficult to explain why the beginning of the calendar [on the 11th of August 3114 BC] corresponds with the end of Treta Yuga and the beginning the descending Age of Dwapara, whereas the calendar’s end falls 312 years into the ascending Dawpara Yuga.
If Swami Sri Yuktsawa’s calculations in The Holy Science are correct, the assertion that this solar system is passing through the 311th year of an ascending Dwapara is empirically provable, in which case, the ascension of Universal Consciousness is more than 1,511 years underway, whether we are cognisant of that fact or not.
When Swami Sri’s wrote The Holy Science in the spring of 1894, the Vernal Equinox was 20 degrees, 54 feet and 36 inches from the first point of Aries (the fixed star, Ravati), at which point 1394 years had passed since the Vernal Equinox began to recede from the first point of Aries. Thus, by deducting 1,200 years from 1394, we understand that 194 was the year of the ascending Age of Dwapara, and that by adding 3,600 to 1394, which equals 4992 [AD 1894], we get the year in the Hindu almanacs at the time of Swami Sri’s literary endeavours.
The ascension of Universal Consciousness began around 500 AD, when the ascent of Kali Yuga bagan, which means that the entire solar system will continue to be in ascension for about another ten thousand, four hundred and eighty nine years. The implications of this cosmological thesis are all-encompassing, not least for those who believe that the ascension of Mankind will take place on the 21st of December 2012, which, given the foregoing, seems somewhat unlikely.
In conclusion, based solely upon the results of my on-going research, it is my firm belief that any notion that the rise or fall of Mankind is dependent upon the events which take place from one specific day to another is moot, since the events which take place during every conscious moment experienced by every sentient being are of equal significance in every solar age. Nevertheless, a sustainable explanation of why the Mayan Calendar ends so abruptly remains elusive.
Calendar Timelines
The Mayan Calendar began on 11 August 3114 BC and ends on 21 December 2012.
The Egyptian, Jewish, Babylonian and Hellenic Calendars all became evident in the period 2494-2345 BC.
The Roman Calendar was reputedly invented by Romulus around 753 BC.
The Julian Calendar was introduced in the Roman Empire by Julius Caesar in 46 BC (709 ab urbe condita).
The Gregorian Calendar was introduced in the Papal States by the decree of Pope Gregory XIII on 24 February 1582 AD and was gradually adopted by/imposed upon the vast majority of the population of the planet.
