The Cycle of Yugas
युगचक्रम्
Chapter 2
18 ¶Only with the advent of the animal kingdom was there such a thing as tapas or sādhana to transmute the fires of instinctive desire. There will come a time, toward the end of the Dvāpara Yuga and into the Kali Yuga, when the soul will incarnate into a human body and be pulled back into the animal world, and then again into a human body, and be pulled back into the animal world, and then again into a human body, simulating a war between devas and demons. There will be families who live deep in caves, in the first evolutionary step out of the animal kingdom, who weren’t reclaimed by the sacrificial ceremonies of the Tretā Yuga. §
The Sublime Era Called Tretā Yuga§
19 ¶During the Tretā Yuga, the Earth has been lush and wonderful for those souls who avoided the animal world and continued to fulfill their evolution on Earth, without interruption, in their original bodies. All through this time we greatly perfected laboratory-like monasteries, working to help those who were captured. We all lived together in absolute, blissful harmony, and the world was a beautiful place. Everyone was creative and well occupied with various mental activities rather than those of a physical nature. All was ever in a state of total completion at each point in time, due to the nature of the yuga and our culture. Even when the original body was lost to a hungry animal, this did not disturb the inner equanimity. It will be only in the end of the Dvāpara Yuga and into the Kali Yuga that this completeness of culture and natural expression of soul will be lost, and the division between the inner and outer will become a great barrier, it is predicted. As others entered the animal kingdom, it was considered a natural participation in the evolution on this planet, though we all avoided the experience as long as possible. It was only those who came back from the animal herds, through mutation into the newly forming human race with bodies that mated, who knew a little of the duality of happiness and unhappiness. §
The Ratio of Those Still in Original Bodies§
20 ¶As the Sat Yuga ended with the advent of the Tretā Yuga, the ratio of divine beings to those entering the animal kingdom was something like three to one. One half to one half was the ratio during the Tretā Yuga. But now, toward its end, the ratio is one in the original body to three in the others. Our prophecies read out that during the Dvāpara and Kali Yugas every celestial soul will either be in an animal body or in a human body made of its flesh, fire and bones. And it will be at the end of the Dvāpara Yuga that all will see and remember the virtues of the Tretā Yuga and tell in great volumes its history and culture as it faces the looming gloom of the Kali Yuga. Soon man forgets those virtues and the proper way of moving in the mind and using its powers as he begins to work for dark purposes. It is during this time he will have mental battles with one another, and the black arts will be played with as games. It will be in the Kali Yuga that mankind kills one another. But in the Dvāpara Yuga still there is not yet the killing, no hand to hand combat as in the Kali Yuga, but one will hurt the mind of another in the dusk of his soul. It will be in the Kali Yuga, after the souls emerge in human form, with desires, passions and reproductive fervor, that racial and religious groups of many different kinds will begin. Before that there is only one religion.§
Exercizing The Fading Ability to Fly§
21 ¶Our power of being able to fly is beginning to wane, and it is impossible to travel for long distances. And so we fly in games and for sport as we exercise this fast-fading faculty. Many are seen walking then flying a little and walking again, interspersing one with another, three or four hundred yards at a time. Those in the grosser bodies cannot do this at all and marvel at our ability. Children, however, can sometimes fly in the human bodies, and they lift them in the air and spin around as they dance and play one with another. They could fly long distances, but didn’t really have the desire to go any place because their homes were so nice there was no need to travel anywhere. The sign of our losing our ability to fly, it has been predicted, is the official beginning of the Dvāpara Yuga’s advent in space and time. Then vast substances will form and divide the land. Darkness will prevail and cloud the mind, they say. §
The loss of knowledge and the loss of the ability to evolve divine faculties in the human body will occur, they say. Great knowledge, however, will be forced through certain souls by the Mahādevas, who will speak it and write it through the Kali Yuga to stabilize the belief and the culture, the prophecy states. §
Prediction About the Dvāpara Yuga§
22 ¶In the end of the Dvāpara Yuga is seen the destruction of everything that had been built in the Tretā Yuga in the dark area of the world. The races of light and the races of darkness become divided by water. The air becomes thinner. During this time there is inner darkness within man in one part of the world and inner light in another part, creating a balance of sorts. Monasteries form to hold the forces of light and keep the balance of the race. Whereas the races in darkness will not have any monasteries and just do agriculture and care for the body. Everyone will try to influence everyone else through the powers of his mind. People try to convert other people to their religion and philosophy. No one is left on his own. Thought becomes very important to everyone. Everyone tries to program everyone else’s thoughts. The destruction of this civilization will begin the Kali Yuga. The loss of knowledge and the loss of the ability to evolve divine faculties in the human body will occur, they say. Great knowledge, however, will be forced through certain souls by the Mahādevas, who will speak it and write it through the Kali Yuga to stabilize the belief and the culture, the prophecy states. “During the Dvāpara Yuga many of you will be coming back into human form from the animal kingdom and feeling the power of reason and memory,” our teachers tell us. Then man will separate himself from others to endeavor to seek control over the forces within him, with the object to arrive within himself at the state he used to be in, out of the wheel of animalistic reincarnation through procreation. §
Releasing Souls From Animal Incarnation§
23 ¶One of the major functions of some of the temples during this time of the end of the Tretā Yuga is to cause the release of the souls from the animal kingdom through sacrifice. Often the soul would be released from an animal body and be able to incarnate into a human family attending the ceremony. But later on, in the Dvāpara Yuga, people will indeed consider themselves fortunate to receive a blessing from a Mahādeva, we predict, because there will be too many in flesh-and-bone bodies at that point in time and space, and these kinds of sacrificial ceremonies will not be effective because the vibration of the Earth will not be conducive for this kind of transmigration of the soul to occur. At this time, many will begin to eat meat and fish as some animals do, and take on their characteristics of desire and cunning and live in the instinctive animal consciousness. Then, when the Sat Yuga dawns, these celestial souls who had been trapped in the instinctive nerve system, slowly working their way out of the animal kingdom as well as out of human bodies, will find liberation. Their human bodies then will still look similar to the few original bodies we have left among us now, but they will still have the heat and fire of the animal nerve system. In the Kali Yuga, humanity will follow routine blindly and their prophets completely. This will not be difficult, because the prophets will not be able to see well, hence not too far. §
The Central Sun’s Rays in The Sat Yuga§
24 ¶Cosmic rays from the Central Sun will become stronger and stronger, heralding the dawn of the next Sat Yuga. There will be a new vibration, and everything will change. Mankind will again understand himself and virtue will dawn as the Sat Yuga quickly unfolds its strength. Many who are not ready for the light of this yuga will perish. Those who are of the Sat Yuga will experience the beauty of its dawn, unaffected by the astrological and Earth changes which will claim the lives of the unenlightened bound by the fierce dragon of lust. There will be more atmospheric changes like heat and cold, gases and chemicals and things of this nature which will bring on the yuga. As the yuga progresses, people will know the nature of the planet and work with it rather than trying to control it, realizing what the planet needs and letting it go through what it needs to go through. This knowledge comes from the inside of man. This will be a time when people will change from the inside out. People won’t think the way they used to. Everything will respond to the new inner and outer space vibration—cosmic rays getting stronger and stronger bringing in the Sat Yuga. This has to do with what’s in space. As the yuga dawns everything on Earth will become clean on a mass scale through the media of a mass method of communication. When people again come from other planets in the way they did in the Sat Yuga, the change will be complete and the dawn of the Sat Yuga will have fully arrived. It will be a gradual change to a great intensity. It will seem as if time is speeding up in the beginning, and concepts of space will change. It will be slightly different, though, at that time, as the planet will be older and cooler. As time goes on into the Sat Yuga there will be less and less Earth changes because the planet will be cooler. Everything will set.§
The Central Sun is an unseen Sun, just the opposite of our Sun, as if it weren’t, but everything revolves around it and the rays are felt like the rays of the Self are felt, but not seen. It is that brink of the Absolute consciousness. §
Cycles of Time, Mind And Space§
25 ¶The Central Sun is an unseen Sun, just the opposite of our Sun, as if it weren’t, but everything revolves around it and the rays are felt like the rays of the Self are felt, but not seen. It is that brink of the Absolute consciousness. The yugas occur as a result of the revolution around the Central Sun, which is likened to an intense hole in space. There have been several series of yugas before this one where similar occurrences repeated themselves. The yugas are time cycles of time, mind and space. Time travels in a circle in the inner mind, not a straight line. Space is a circle, too. Space, stars, planets, moons and time and mind all revolve around a Central Sun, our śāstras stress. There are planets similar to the Earth, but older than the Earth, that are way forward in yugas yet to come. This planet is not yet that far into them. But there are great souls on the Earth who have been in other yugas or other Earths and are now back again to guide. §
Four Cycles Of Yugas On Earth§
26 ¶Each yuga is a cycle of time and a cycle of space. The end of the coming Kali Yuga will be the end of the third full cycle of yugas since this planet became habitable. The next Sat Yuga will begin the fourth cycle of yugas. During the second cycle of yugas, celestial beings arrived from other planets bringing with them vegetation. Their spaceships passing over the Earth’s surface dropped seeds and foliage. Then celestial beings came en masse and hovered over the Earth in their etheric bodies. Some became the birds and small and large animals because they couldn’t bring through the duplication of the divine soul body strongly enough to live on Earth at that time. Due to the conditions of the Earth and the gasses in the atmosphere, a mutation took place among all the divine souls that started the instinctive mind on the planet. The animals at the end of the second cycle were big, beautiful and happy. Even during this yuga, the small animals from the second cycle of yugas are coming into human form. There will be many humans on Earth as it enters the fourth cycle of yugas, our śāstras have explained to us. §
Devonic Races Within Birds And Mammals§
27 ¶Some birds are a race of devas that will never incarnate into anything other than birds. All egg-laying creatures are devas and stay in the inner world of this planet. This would include turtles, snakes, fish, lizards and birds. The large mammals of the water, however, that give birth will eventually take human birth. Most all of Lemuria will be under vast bodies of liquid during the Kali Yuga, protected by various kinds of these mammals swimming within it, they say. §
During the next Sat Yuga, knowledge of working with and through the rays of the Central Sun will return. Then man will live underground again, as he did before he came to this planet, and then remember how to travel easily through space.§
Adjusting to The Vibration Of Each Yuga§
28 ¶At the beginning of each yuga, the celestial soul within each body will not immediately realize how to adjust itself to the external mind flow. But as the yuga progresses, the brain and intellect will adapt easily within the new forces that come into effect. The middle of the last Sat Yuga and the middle of the next, our seers tell us, exist simultaneously in one current point in time. The beginning of the next Sat Yuga will be similar to the end of the Tretā Yuga. During this time there will be similarities between the two yugas, such as mankind’s ability to understand the true nature of himself, harmony between people, flying for short distances and the ancient orders of monasticism again flourishing on Earth. During the next Sat Yuga, knowledge of working with and through the rays of the Central Sun will return. Then man will live underground again as he did before he came to this planet, and then remember how to travel easily through space. He will never travel easily in space until he lives under the surface of the Earth, our prophets clearly state. §
Placing Books in The Ākāśa§
29 ¶We have a little śāstric book, small in size and quite thick, which describes the methods used in placing the manuscripts of all cultures and time during the latter part of this yuga into the atmosphere of the inner mind. It says that all manifest life comes from the forces within the inner substance of the mind and permeates out through all the other elements. All these elements exist within a seed. A seed is in direct connection to the ākāśa. Therefore, the oil from a seed is a direct tube into it from the physical plane. To place books in the ākāśa, they should be first soaked in oil and then burned, it states. It is through the method of soaking books in life-giving oils, then reading them aloud to imprint them in the memory ākāśa and burning them to put them into the astral ākāśa that all records of history, philosophy and prophecy are written. The books that are in the ākāśa were made out of the oil in this way, the exact same substance as Earth oil, but the inner part of the oils appear in any kind of manifest form in the ākāśa through this method. Oil is a form of odic force in a very condensed state. Anything crushed will turn to oil eventually, they say. Within the oil is fire and many other kinds of elements. Everyone who used the single eye had access to any or all of these books. Later, in the Kali Yuga, when this is not possible, books will be written and many copies of the same one will be made to be read by those who have the use of both or one or the other of the two eyes. §
Original Bodies, First Flesh Bodies§
30 ¶Our original Earth bodies were boned very soft in the Sat Yuga. The bones at any place could bend as much as two inches or more. This was because of the atmosphere at that time, which was similar to the atmosphere under water at great depths. The atmosphere will change again in the Dvāpara Yuga and Kali Yuga, and the bones will harden. It will again change when the next Sat Yuga comes into power. The original bodies by the end of the Sat Yuga contained a high content of oil, whereas it is found that the flesh bodies have a high content of other kinds of liquids, and even the blood is different. This remains so through the Kali Yuga. Because of the high oil content in the original bodies, the bones were soft and springy, much like snake or fish bodies. All through the Tretā Yuga, we were able to maintain these fibrous bodies with a high content of oil and keep them soft and pliable. In these soft, pliable bodies, we were easily in touch with beings on other planets. §