Myths of Mankind: The Mahabharata

[MariaDine]

Mahabharata - Maha in Sanskrit means big and bharata refers to the great emperor Bharat, whose empire was known as Bharata varsa, and covered the entire world approximately five thousand years ago.

The center of this empire was the region known today as India.

As such, all aspects of India's millennial (Vedic) culture are compiled in this important epic of the history of mankind.

This episode explores the myth of the Mahabharata, laying out the very roots of Indian mythology, religion and history.

The world's greatest and longest know epic poem with 100,000 verses exceeds the Bible and all of Shakespeare's plays put together.

The myth tells of the founding of civilisation and a protracted battle between the two wings of a royal family: the Pandavas and the Kauravas, bitterly opposed in a struggle for life and death.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JVxNvquJLBM

Entering the New Cycle
The Sun, along with its system, revolves around its binary in about 24,000 years of our earth. It also revolves around the grand centre called in Hindu scriptures as Vishnunabhi or the Navel of Lord Vishnu, which coincidentally happens to be the centre of the galaxy where the Black Hole exists. During this revolution , the sun goes towards the centre (Ascending) taking 12,000 years to do so and then moves away from the centre (Descending), taking another 12,000 years of earth to reach the farther point from the centre. When it is moving towards the centre, there is mental development. When it is moving away from the centre, then there is intellectual decline. Many other ancient cultures, like the Greeks, the Zoroastrians, also believed in the 12,000 year cycle.

Sri Yukteshwar, a 19th century Hindu monk, wrote on this: “Each of these periods of 12,000 years brings complete change, both externally in the material world, and internally in the intellectual or electric world, and is called one of the Divine Yugas or Electric Couple.”

This 24,000 year of Ascending and Descending cycle approximates the 25,765 Precessional Years when the sun moves backwards in the 12 zodiacal constellations. An ancient book of astronomy “Surya Siddhanta” specific the value of 54 arc second per year for precession and not 50 arc second, which calculated comes to 24,000 years.

Rather than following complicated calculations which crept into these yugas later on, it is best to follow the original Saptrishi Calendar or the calendar based on the Great Bear Constellation which was followed in ancient India. According to this calendar the Great Bear stayed in one constellation for 100 years, thus adding up to 2,700 years for 27 constellations. However, 12,000 years were equally divided into four Yugas or Ages with each yuga getting 3,000 years: Satya Yuga (Golden Age), Treta Yuga (Silver Age), Dwapar Yuga (Bronze Age) and Kali Yuga (Iron Age), with the Transition or Mutation period of 300 years each.

It has been established by several scholars through the historical accounts in Mahabharata and visits of the Greeks travelers etc to India, that the Saptrishi Calendar started in 6676 BCE. Moreover, since Mahabharata describes events happening in Dwapara Yuga, it has been established that 6676 BCE marks the beginning of Descending Dwapara Yuga. According to this calculation, we are in the Ascending Kali Yuga (676 BCE to 2025 CE). Now, the Transitional Period of 300 years starts from 2025 CE and ends in 2325CE before the next yuga starts.

What is important here is the Transitional Period. Calculations indicate that in the past Transitional Periods, Sri Yukteshwar’s “complete change” indeed took place. Scholars have linked in this way:

Consider Transitional or Mutation Period preceeding Ascending Kali Yuga, 300 years back from 676 BCE – Troy was destroyed, the great Mycenaean cities collapsed, “Third Intermediate Period” of Egypt happened, Indus Valley Civilisation ended, and Hekla volcano eruption.

Go back 3,000 years and we reach the Mutation Period of 3976 BCE-3676 BCE – referred to in geology as 5.9 kilo year event, i.e. intense aridification; Sahara desert; Jewish Calendar says world began in 3761 BC, severe floodings in Asia or the Flandrian transgression.

The Transitional Period before the above is 6976 BCE – 6676 BCE – geologists say the Black Sea Catastrophe happened during this time when Mediterranean Sea swelled with melting ice and flooded great parts of Europe; gigantic earthquakes in Europe including “rock tsumanis” in Sweden.

During the earlier Transitional Period of 9976 BCE – 9676 BCE – Ice Age ended; Global Flooding in 9600 BCE and all the extinctions that followed.

Now, for earth changes to take place, it may take a jiffy or even hundreds of years. There are no hard and fast rules in Nature but yet there are cycles. As the next Transitional Period of 300 years starting 2025 CE is approaching, there are indications that the changes might already be underway. According to Mayan Long Calendar calculations, this “Great Cycle” ended in 2012 for a new one to begin. This date of 2012 assumes importance since in this year, we began to see and record earth changes – increased volcanic eruptions, sink holes, increased earthquakes, increased floodings, increased cracking of the earth because of earth swelling.

If the above cyclic changes are correct, then these activities are expected to increase and reach their peak by 2025 CE, i.e. 12 years from now, leading to start of 300 years of Civilisational Collapse in the Transitional Period.

Now then, we are according to these calculations in the Ascending Cycle. So, we would rather witness increased mental activity, more knowledge, more intelligence, greater awakening. https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ata#post747013

[Selene]

The Mahabarata is one of the most extraordinary documents of our planet’s history. And critically, its mythology is in agreement with the other-side-of-the-world Mayan calendar in terms of the 26,000 year/yuga precessional (rotational) cycle of our planet within the greater 260,000 year rotation of our Milky Way galaxy. This is significant information. And it begs an important question:

WHO TF ever needed to calculate anything in terms of 26,000+ human years? And Why?

It wasn’t us, that’s for sure.

• We weren’t – duh – watching the sun rise and set to figure out when to plant wheat.... No, we could just check the temperature of the soil and watch the budding plants. We didn’t need a solstice/Stonehenge calculation to be farmers.

• We weren’t trying to figure out that stars move one degree optically every 72 years – longer than an average human lifespan – for no apparent purpose.

• We weren’t calculating the movements of ‘stars’ (planets) correct to five decimal points – as the Assyrians/Babylonian civilization did long before the Egyptians or Greeks [NB: You can calculate a flight to the moon or Mars using only three decimal points.] Today we’re happy with only two decimals for astrology...

It wasn’t us.

Who could possibly care about a 26,000 year cycle - and teach it?

Cheers,

Selene

[MariaDine]

WHO ???

Well, these links below will help you to know who....
Be Well .
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Year

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_age

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession

[Lettherebelight]

Myth? the events of the Mahabharata have much recent as well as historical evidence to support its status beyond that of mythology.

For a direct and authoritative explanation of the yugas, I offer Michael Cremo's presentation of Vedic time as explained clearly in the Srimad Bhagavatam (3rd Canto)

http://www.mcremo.com/vedic.htm

[MariaDine]

Posted by Lettherebelight (here)
Myth? the events of the Mahabharata have much recent as well as historical evidence to support its status beyond that of mythology.

For a direct and authoritative explanation of the yugas, I offer Michael Cremo's presentation of Vedic time as explained clearly in the Srimad Bhagavatam (3rd Canto)

http://www.mcremo.com/vedic.htm

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It was considered myth....not anymore...

[Lettherebelight]

Thanks for the clarification...and I would definitely agree with you.

I didn't in any way mean to derail your thread only to present the time calculations which appear to be slightly different.

But one wonders that when reckoning time in these gargantuan calculations,,,it may not matter that much!

[MariaDine]

Discovery of 400,000-year-old Hominin in Spain


Scientists reported the discovery of ancient human DNA from a femur fossil dated at approximately 400,000 years unearthed at the Sima de los Huesos excavation in Spain. Complete story at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/sc...f=science&_r=0

Michael Cremo's commentary on this story:

Over the past couple of weeks, numerous people have sent me links to articles about DNA research results from a femur discovered at the Sima de los Huesos in Spain. Most of the headlines to the articles are variations of this: "400,000-year-old human DNA poses mystery." Many people know that I believe humans like us existed further back in time than most scientists are now prepared to accept. Most scientists believe that humans like us first appeared less than 200,000 years ago. So, perhaps thinking that the reports from Spain support my ideas, people send me the links. However, we have to understand that when scientists and science reporters use the word "human" in connection with the discovery from Spain, they do not mean humans like us. They mean more primtive human ancestors or relatives of human ancestors. Most scientists attribute the 400,000-year-old bones from Sima de los Huesos to early Neandertals, or to Homo heidelbergensis, a European relative of the apeman Homo erectus. But in my book Forbidden Archeology I documented fossil evidence showing that humans like us were present in Europe at 400,000 years ago. For example, in the nineteenth century, the French archeologist Jacques Boucher des Perthes found an anatomically modern human jaw in his excavations at the Moulin Quignon site in Abbeville, in northeastern France. According to modern geologists, the formation there is about 400,000 years old. So there is evidence that humans like us were existing 400,000 years ago in Europe, but the recent evidence from Spain is not it—at least not from what we know from the current reports.





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[MariaDine]

The Vedic contribution - Accurate information about the Earth, the solar sistem and the Universe.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0yzH2n7MLM8

[bogeyman]

What makes you think the Sumerian civilization is the oldest in mankind's history? There are many indications man is far older than he knows, and within any myth there could be some truth.

[MariaDine]

the importance of Sanscrit and the cosmic information

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2gD5K7bhLFc