KARMA YUGA:

CYCLES OF TIME

In the Rishi culture Ashtanga Yoga tradition also known as the Gitananda Yoga Paramparai, there are three important sciences, namely Mantra, Yantra and Tantra.

Yantra is the mystical science of number, name and form, and is a method by which one

Can learn to live “in tune” with the cycles of the universe, rather than be “out of tune” with those very cycles. According to theYantric concept as each number has a special inherent quality or power, and numbers are not merely measures of quantities as is usually presumed. Every aspect of life goes through a phase of nines.

This phase may be nine years, nine months, nine weeks or even nine days. This concept can be further extended both ways to go down to nine milliseconds on one hand or up to nine lifetimes on the other.

The evolutionary phases of the five Tattwas (elements) are an inherent natural cycle that manifests in all human endeavours.

By understanding these cycles we may move with natural rhythm, rather than go against the tides of time. We thus fulfil ourselves in a positive logical way rather than living haphazardly. This cyclical pattern duplicates the agricultural cycle of SOWING (three phases), CULTIVATING (three phases), and HARVESTING (three phases). On the wheel of life, these nine distinct phases are found to exist in a nine unit cycle of time. This cyclic progression of time is known as the “Karma Yuga,

 

Compiled from various sources

 

Vikas P Deshpande

M. E. Civil, Structural Consultant

Vastu Consultant.

0434681647, deshpandevikas@gmail.com

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