The Manvantara’s and Yugas on Earth
Lord Siva weds Sati
during this manvantara
Earth Forms Ages of Earth
4,350,000,000
Science:
One of the most enduring features of our
planet, Gondwana (or Gondwanaland) was a
composite continent, made up of South
America, Africa, Antarctica, India, and
Australia, and even at one time included
Florida and part of southwest Europe.
Gondwanaland is named after the Upper
Paleozoic and Mesozoic formations of the
Gondwana district of central India, which
display a number of shared geologic features
(the "Gondwana beds"). In the late nineteenth
century, on the basis of comparative
geological evidence, the Austrian geologist,
Edward Suess, suggested that the continents of
Africa, South America, Australia and India
were once part of a single supercontinent,
which he called "Gondwanaland".
Science tells us that the Continents of
Australia, India, South America, Africa, and
Antarctica, existed together as a separate
landmass as long as 650 million years ago.
And as these continents only began to break
up some 130 million years ago, this great
supercontinent had a life of around 520
million years; making it perhaps the most
important geological structure of the last
billion years.
The map shows a reconstruction of the Earth
as it was 530 million years ago. Although the
land was barren, the shallow seas teamed with
primitive life, trilobites, brachiopods, worms,
sponges, and many other forms which have
since become extinct.
Conclusions:
There are thirty Kalpas mentioned in the Puranas. Visnu in the
Meghavahana Kalpa became a cloud and showered the earth for
a thousand divine years, thus:
i. The Earth as a planet is as old as the Universe. It is
remade by nuclear fusion during each Kalpa - its
bedrock and molten centre reforming.
ii. The Earth is made habitable each Kalpa by Lord
Skanda – the lord bearing all Shaktis; Living entities
are recreated each Kalpa from Lord Visnu.
iii. The geological dating of earth rocks is determined by
the half-life of radioactive elements; each dissolution
causes material reformation of elements (fusion) and
the atomic clock is reset. Thus science can only
measure a Kalpa or 4.32 billion years - which in fact
is the given age of the Earth according to geology.
The sun, significantly, is 5-billion years old.
iv. The Earth, the solar system and every planet and
galaxy in the Universe rejuvenates during Kalpas-
this happens until the end of the Universe.
From: Siva Purana , Vol. IV, Umasamhita, Chapters 29-
34.Kailasasamhita Chapter 11. Satarudrasamhita Chapt.5
From: Univ. of Calif. at Berkley - Map of Gondwana.
ivñeñrn! Bhadrapada 2003
2,159,136,000
308,448,000
Svayambhuva Manu 650 million years Vaivasvata Manu Savarni Manu
1st manvantara 7th manvantara 8th Manvantara
2,190,864,000
1879
130 million years ago,
Time of Lord Rama
continents broke up. 1,750,000 years ago King Marut, son of
Agnivarna of the solar race,
nineteen generations after
Rama -1,748,100 years ago,
mentioned in the Siva Purana.
Lord Krsna was born
In the 28th aeon of the
Dvapara Yuga in the
Vaisvata Manvantara of
the Varaha Kalpa. –
187,488,000 years ago.
Scriptures:
The fourteen manvantaras for this creation cycle are: Svayambhuva,
Svarocisa, Uttama, Tamasa, Raivata, Caksusa, Vaivasvata, Savarni,
Raucya, Brahma-Savarni, Dharma-Savarni, Rudra-Savarni, Deva-Savarni,
Indra-Savarni.
We are in the Varaha Kalpa, the Vaivasvata Manu, and a Sat Yuga cycle
which started in 1879, the year Thomas Edison invented the incandescent
light globe, because according to scripture: “When the inhabitants of the
Earth are able to light the night with their own devices…the Krta (Sat)
Yuga will begin through this one advent in time and space…” Because of
the Sandhya twilight overlap in Yugas we are still experiencing the
negative effects of the last Kali-yuga age.
The earth was a single continent during the reign of King Svayambuhva
Manu. The earth was developed by this time. The Prajapati’s like the first,
Daksa, created living entities mentally, visually and by touch. The Earth
was inhabited by Asuras, Gods and animals of great size. The Earth is yet
to be seeded for future populations. The great migration of Homo Sapiens
in their divine form from other planets to the Earth was still to take place.
In each manvantara a partial dissolution takes place called a laya. The
worlds experience floods etc., there is recreation after annihilation.
At the end of a Kalpa a great dissolution takes place. All the living beings
(both moving and non-moving entities) are burnt by the sun’s rays. All of
them enter Visnu at the end of Kalpas along with the Adityas (gods). In the
new Kalpa (Brahma’s day) , Visnu then reissues forth all living beings.
This happens again and again. Lord Rudra annihilates them at the end of
each Kalpa.
The birth of lord Krsna son of Vasudeva and Dvaipayana Vyasa (Veda-
Vyasa) son of Parashara in the 28th aeon of the Dvapara Yuga in the
Vaivasvata Manvantara of this present Kalpa (Varaha) took place
187,400,000 years ago. The four Vedas were first classified then from one-
million sloka’s to 100,000 slokas by Vedavyasa. Lord Siva incarnated then
as Lakulin, and his sishaya’s were Garga, Mitra, Kusika and Taurusya.
At the end of Brahma’s life (100 divine years or 309.173x10^12 solar
years; his present age is 51 divine years) a complete dissolution takes place
where the whole universe is annihilated. Everything merges into the
Supreme Brahman until the next creation cycle.