Kali Yuga · 28th Maha-yuga · 7th Manvantara (Vaivasvata)

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Kali Yuga

The age of the quarrel and conflict — the shortest, darkest yuga. It began at the traditional date of Krishna's departure, 3102 BCE, and runs 432,000 years.

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Years remaining
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Length
432,000 yrs

The Maha-yuga

Four yugas in descending length — the 4 : 3 : 2 : 1 ratio of a declining age. We are in the 28th maha-yuga of this manvantara, deep in its final quarter (Kali).

Through the 28th maha-yuga
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One maha-yuga
4,320,000 yrs

The Manvantara

An age of one Manu = 71 maha-yugas = 306.72 million years. Fourteen Manus rule in turn across a single day of Brahmā. We live under the 7th, Vaivasvata.

    Six are done. We are in the seventh. Seven more before this day of Brahmā ends. — through Vaivasvata's reign.

    The Day of Brahmā

    All fourteen Manus together are one day of Brahmā — a Kalpa — 4.32 billion years. We sit near its middle.

    Day complete
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    Naimittika Pralaya — the partial dissolution

    When this day ends, the lower worlds flood and burn. Time remaining:

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    A striking convergence

    Modern stellar astrophysics: the Sun swells to a red giant and renders Earth uninhabitable in ~1–5 billion years (oceans boil ~1 Gyr; Earth engulfed ~5 Gyr). The Puranic next dissolution — ~2.35 billion years — falls inside that window.

    This is arithmetic on the scriptural model set beside an independently measured figure. The agreement is striking; it is not offered as proof.

    Night of Brahmā

    After the day, 4.32 billion years of darkness. The three highest worlds endure; everything up through the heavens is withdrawn.

    The Life of Brahmā

    The outermost shell of time: 311,040,000,000,000 years — one hundred years of Brahmā. He is about halfway through.

    Brahmā's life complete
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    To Mahāpralaya (total dissolution)
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    At his death, everything returns — element folding into subtler element:

      Then: innumerable universes drift in the Causal Ocean like bubbles, Mahā-Viṣṇu breathing. One breath = one life of Brahmā. Ours is a single bubble among countless.

      Everything here ticks

      Only the witness of all this has no expiry. Everything you just scrolled through dissolves. The one watching does not.

      — the idea of na jāyate mriyate vā, Bhagavad Gītā 2.20: the soul is never born and never dies.