Creation of Universe - Cosmology (Part 2 of 3)

As per Hindu Mythology Lord Brahma is the creator of Universe. He has four heads, to monitor all four directions, he is often called Svyambhu (meaning self-born). He was born from a Lotus which emerged from Lord Vishnu’s Navel. Some literature states that he was born from a Golden Egg known as “Hiranyagarbha” which has a different magnanimous theory.

Brahma often called as "Parampitah" meaning Father of Everything created in Universe

As per Hindu Cosmology the creation and destruction of the universe is a cyclic process in a time span of 8.64 billion years which repeats itself forever and Big Bang is not the beginning of everything but just the start of present cycle.

So in simple terms it can be understood by

Ayana is a six month period of Sun's progress either from North or South of the ecliptic, two Ayana compose one human year

1 human year = 1 Dev Ahoratra (i.e. A Complete Day - 1 Day & 1 Night of Demigods, Northern Ayana is Day and Southern Ayana is Night)

30 Ahoratra of Dev = 1 Month of Dev

360 Dev Ahoratra = 1 Dev Vatsara (1 Year)

12000 Dev Vatsara = 1 Chaturyuga (often called as Maha-Yuga)

One Chaturyuga includes

(12000 Dev Vatsara of which

• 4800 Vatsara is Human’s 1 Satya or Krita Yuga
• 3600 Vatsara is 1 Treta Yuga
• 2400 Vatsara is 1 Dwapar Yuga & remaining
• 1200 Vatsara is 1 Kali Yuga) hence 432000 Human Years = 1 Kali Yuga, the present yuga in which we are living

71 Chaturyuga = 1 Manvantar (i.e. Lifespan of One Manu)

Before the beginning of First and after each Manvantar follows a Samdhi Kala which is of same duration as a Krita Yuga

14 Manvantar = 1 Kalpa (1 Day of Lord Brahma, includes 14 Manvantara and 15 Samdhi Kala)

2 Kalpas = 1 Day & 1 Night of Brahma
Two Kalpas constitute a Day and a Night (is of equal duration as of Day) of Brahma and here comes the “Cycle of our Universe” i.e. 8.64 billion human years

8.64 Billion year is said to tbe One Life Cycle of Universe

30 Days of Brahma = 1 month of Brahma

360 Days of Brahma = 1 Bramha Year

50 years of Bramha = 1 Paradha (Para meaning 100, Adha meaning half)

2 Paradha’s = 100 years of Brahma which is known as 1 “Para” or “Maha-Kalpa” and this is lifespan of the Supreme Lord Brahma.

Also One Day of Brahma i.e. 1 Kalpa is divided into 1000 parts called as “Charan”

Lord Brahma wakes up at the beginning of each Kalpa (i.e. Day) and creates Life in Universe and by the end of his day all living entity is destroyed, only water and the zero blackout spread everywhere for whole Night while Brahma sleeps (rests i.e. yoga-nidra), Again in the morning on beginning of new day Brahma wakes up and the same creation process takes place, this creation and destruction cycles constantly goes on forever.

50 years of Current Lord Brahma have elapsed. The last Kalpa at the end of 50th year is called Padma Kalpa. This is the first 'day' of the 51st year. This Brahma's day, Kalpa, is named as ShvetaVaraha Kalpa(White Boar Aeon). Within this Day six Manvantaras have already elapsed and this is the seventh Manvantara and is named as “Vaivasvath Manvantara” (or Sraddhadeva Manvantara) reigned by Manu named “Vamana”. Within the Vaivasvath Manvantara 27 Mahayugas, and a Krita, Treta and Dwapara Yugas of the 28th Mahayuga have elapsed. We are at Kaliyuga of the 28th Mahayuga. This Kaliyuga began at midnight of 17^th February / 18^th February in 3102 BCE in the Proleptic Julian Calendar so only 5117 years are passed out of 432,000 years of current Kali Yuga, and hence another 426,883 years are left to complete this 28th Kali Yuga of Vaivasvath Manvantara. Since 50 years of Brahma have already elapsed, this is the second Parardha, also called as Dvitiya Paradha.