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NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 13, 2005: HPI note: We found this article in the Daily Pioneer quite interesting. We do not understand, however, why Dr. Arya says the Dwarpara Yuga follows the Kali Yuga. Our understanding is that the Sat Yuga follows the Kali Yuga. Hinduism Today’s founder, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, also believed we had started to enter the Sat Yuga, in part because of the discovery and mastery of electricity, which he considered a crucial sign, just as Dr. Arya does. The article follows:



For those of us who grew up believing that we are in Kali yuga, this could be a revelation. An eminent scientist has refuted all claims of this era being Kali yuga and according to him, for the past three centuries we have been living in the second phase of Dwapara yuga. While Mahabharata took place in the first phase of Dwapara (3100 bce to 700 bce), the 2nd phase of Dwapara has been credited for rampant industrial revolution. In this era man will be able to discover five types of electricity corresponding to the five nerve senses of human being. “Man transgressed the boundaries in almost all fields of knowledge. He could capture the deep oceans and high skies, could control the vagaries of nature including birth and death cycles, cloning, etc. Could all this be possible in Kali yuga where human intellect degenerates?” Dr. (Professor) A. S. Arya questions. His calculations are based on celestial phenomenon of fixed stars and he justifies that man has crossed three centuries of Dwapara and not Kali yuga.



Further more the achievements of Dwapara yuga which started around 1700 ce, the discovery of magnetic forces, presence of electricity in material substances and invention of telescope, microscope, steam engine has been attributed to Dwapara and not Kali yuga. The four yugas, according to Hindu almanacs are Satya, Treta, Dwapara and Kali yuga and the present Dwapara is in the ascending order of yuga cycle which began in 1700 ce. The first phase, in its descending order started in 3100 bce after Treta (Lord Rama’s era) and ended in 700 bce marking the beginning of Kali yuga. Dr. Arya believes that the period around 500 ce, when the Sun was at the farthest point (Vishnunabhi), was the darkest period (ghor Kali yuga) in the whole cycle of 24,000 years. By logical deductions, he says, history did record ignorance and sufferings in the entire world during the time.



“By the end of ascending Kali yuga of 1100 years by 1600 ce, men did not discover fine matter or electricities. It was in the transitional sandhi of Kali yuga of 100 years (1600-1700 ce) that man began to notice the existence of fine matters and established political peace,” said Arya who has retired as a professor of statistics from Hissar university. After referring to books on astronomy, Prof Arya calculated, that in 1894 ce the Vernal Equinox was 20 degree 54′ 36″ distant from the nearest point (the fixed star rewati) establishing that 1,394 years had passed since the Vernal equinox was 13,394 years away from the nearest point. By deducting 13,200 years (12,000 of half circle and 1,200 of ascending Kali yuga) from 13,394, it has been established that man was in the 194th year of Dwapara in 1894 ce and the 305th year in 2005 ce.



Interestingly, Prof Arya claims that the mistake crept into the Hindu almanacs in about 7000 bce during the reign of Raja Parikshit, just after Dwapara yuga ended. “Maharaja Yudhishtara, noticed the appearance of Kali yuga and retired to the Himalayas with all his wise men. Thus, there was no one in the court who could correctly calculate and dare to introduce the 1st year of Kali yuga after the completion of 2,400 years of outgoing Dwapara. Thus, the 1st year of descending Kali yuga was inadvertently counted as 2401st, which by the end of this yuga became 3,600 instead of the correct figure of 1,200,” Prof Arya mentioned. “The professional should therefore use the present date as Dwapara 305 (2005 ce) as it is associated logically with the celestial phenomenon of the fixed stars,” exhorts Arya

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