[Advaita-l] Previous Kali Yugas in Shastras?

Santosh Rao srao.dilya at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 07:42:55 EDT 2018


Not everyone is a sannyasi or interested strictly in philosophy only. In
that case why place any importance on puranas at all? I'm sorry but I don't
agree that it is a waste of time to ask such questions, unless one has
renounced everything and is living in some forest somewhere.

Namaskara,

Santosh

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 3:36 AM sreenivasa murthy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>  Why should  not one conclude that all the yugas are mithya and
> to discuss about mithyavastu is fruitless and waste of time?
>  The same time and energy can be fruitfully
>   utilised for knowing one's REAL SvarUpa.Probably the participants in
> this thread are not interested in this.Brickbats , if any, for this piece
> of writing will be gracefully
> accepted as BagavatprasAda.
>
> With respectful namaskars,Sreenivasa Murthy
>
>     On Thursday, 14 June, 2018, 11:31:56 AM IST, D.V.N.Sarma
> డి.వి.ఎన్.శర్మ via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> wrote:
>
>  Why do not we conclude that there were no previous Kaliyugas and we are in
> the only one that exists.
>
> regards,
> Sarma.
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 7:31 AM, Santosh Rao via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Namaskara Bhaskar,
> >
> > Yes that is what I was asking. Since we have many detailed histories
> > recorded from previous yugas in different manavantaras and kalpas, I was
> > curious about why they seem to be silent about Kalki avatara....since
> time
> > is cyclical, there must have been an innumerous amount of Kalki avataras
> > that have already descended, yet we have no stories about them.
> >
> > Santosh
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 2:20 AM, Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> > > praNAms Sri Subbu prabhuji
> > > Hare Krishna
> > >
> > > Santhosh Rao was asking about the 'previous' Kali yuga-s.  We admit
> four
> > > yugas, as a set, keep occurring in a rotation. This is called one
> > > chatur-yuga. He was asking about the Kali yuga of  the previous chatur
> > > yugas.  Is there any talk about the kali yuga of the earlier chatur
> yuga
> > in
> > > any of the scriptural works.  I think one possible place is the Briihad
> > > Yoga Vasishtha where there is mention of 'many Ramayanas and
> Mahabharatas
> > > have happened before'. This I guess is in the BhushunDa akyayika.
> > >
> > >
> > > Ø    Yes, he is asking about the events in previous kali yuga /s,
> events
> > > like : rAmAyaNa in treta yuga, mahAbhArata in dvApara yuga etc. have
> been
> > > accounted and referred in kali yuga but there is no mention of any such
> > > event  in previous kali yuga/s why and if it is happened in one of the
> > > previous kali yuga-s why it has not been recorded and available for us
> is
> > > his question…am I right understanding your doubt Sri Santosh prabhuji??
> > > For that I guessed the answer and said there will be talking about only
> > > bygone yuga events excluding the events occurred in present yuga i.e.
> > kali
> > > yuga.  The talk about the kali yuga events & other yuga evens might
> have
> > > taken place  in other yuga-s again leaving then existing  yuga.
> > >
> > > Ø
> > >
> > > Ø    I wondered and asked my guruji a question about list of brahma
> > > jnAni-s in the br. Up. How come names like bhagavat pAda, ramaNa
> > maharshi,
> > > list of jagadguru-s whom we consider utmost Atma jnAni-s not finding
> the
> > > place in this list if the Upanishads are  yugAteeta / kaalaateeta
> > > apaurusheya text ??  why it is restricted to some rishi parampara names
> > > when we have somany Atma jnAni-s (in kali yuga shankara, gaudapaada,
> > ramaNa
> > > etc. etc.) who are worthy to be found place in this list ??  How
> > Upanishad
> > > ignored their names when the cycle of yuga-s finding the same
> characters
> > /
> > > events again and again ??
> > >
> > > Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> > > bhaskar
> > >
> > > In the shastras we see events from previous yugas in previous eons
> > > described in detail, why don't we see any events from previous kali
> yugas
> > > similarly described? Is it because in kali yuga there are no righteous
> > > people left to record and pass down tradition? Or is there another
> > reason?
> > >
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