How The Universe Was Created According To Hinduism?

Category: Hindu Cosmology

Tags: Ancient TextsHindu CosmologyMultiverseTime MeasurementsUniverse Creation

Entities: Carl SaganHinduismLord BrahmaLord ShivaLord Vishnu

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the universe is a mystery that has always puzzled mankind how was it created and who is responsible for creation in hinduism there are many theories about how the universe was created in the earliest days

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let's explore some of them in hinduism the universe is not one single entity there are an infinite number of universes that are constantly being created and destroyed in other words we live in a universe that belongs to a

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multiverse a universe will ultimately die but the multiverse lives on lord vishnu is a personification of this multiverse according to hinduism lord vishnu was asleep in the cosmic ocean of all causes

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before the creation of the universe his bed is a giant serpent with thousands of cobra like hoods the universe was created in a triad of roles creator maintainer and destroyer

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lord vishnu is the maintainer lord brahma is the creator lord shiva is the destroyer the universe was created through the actions of lord vishnu who slept and let a lotus bloom from his navel

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the luda stem represents the creation of the universe while brahma is found at the flower center and represents the creator the time it takes for one universe to be created and the next one to end is also

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the duration of one breath of lord vishnu when he exhales thousands of universe come into being and a new brahma is born in each one but when lord vishnu inhales all universes get sucked

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in and brahma dies lord brahma represents the universe that we live in he creates all life forms and is responsible for the physical world that we live in lord vishnu is the personification of

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the eternal multiverse he is responsible for the continuation of life in all universes brahma is the representation of our temporary physical universe while vishnu is the representation of

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the eternal multiverse that exists forever without any beginning or end the current universe represented by brahma is not permanent in fact it's quite temporary brahma only lives for 100 years and then

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he dies and a new universe will be born now let's talk about time measurements brahma lives for 100 years and each year of brahma has 360 days and we are currently on the first day of

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the 51st year of his reign there are day and night during the day brahma creates life and during the night all life he created is absorbed back into him therefore we will only be there for this

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day of brahma which is the first day of his 51st year but don't be sad let me promise you that this is quite a long day jug large units of time think of yoga as a unit of time that is

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measured in thousands to millions of years the vishnu purana and ancient hindu text has details about these yoke measurements a mahayoga is made up of four sub-yokes that are distributed in the ratio of

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four is to three three is to two two is to one in a maha yoga the kali yoga is the shortest yoga and lasts for 432 thousand solar years followed by the dwapua yoga which is

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twice as long as 864 thousand years then there's treta york at 12 lakh 96 000 years and finally the satyugh which is 17 lakh 28 000 years

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so in all a mahayuk on earth lasts for 4.32 million years manwander the next major unit of time after ambaha yoga in ancient indian text is called manwanter

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at the beginning of a manwanter new life forms are created and at the end of it those life forms are destroyed this is how the cycle of life goes on in the ancient indian texts one manmanta is said to last for 71 maha

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yoga or 71 multiplied by 4.32 million years this works out to be around 306.72 million years in total according to these ancient texts all

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life on earth will eventually be destroyed after 306.72 million years of evolution interestingly around 252 million years ago the earth experienced its largest

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mass extinction event most species on earth were killed including nearly 90 to 96 of all insects this was also the only mass extinction period of insects on earth

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after each mass extinction of life forms there is a period of recovery called sandhikal this period lasts for one satyog or 1.7 to 8 million years according to the latest estimates from

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modern science it is believed that it took around 10 million years for life on earth to recover after the paramount triassic extinction event as you can see it took our planet 10 million years to get back to its feet

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after suffering the greatest mass extinction in history kalp day of the brahma or universe the universe has a day two just like our day on earth is called kalp the time period for one cult is said to be

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equivalent to 14 manwanders and so there are 14 manwanters and 15 sandhikals in a culp during the sandhikal before the first manwanter no life has evolved yet

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so one culp equal to 14 multiplied by 306.72 million years plus 15 multiplied by 1.728 million years which makes it one culp equal to

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4.32 billion years on the universal scale one day is said to be 4.32 billion years long this day is divided into a period of creation where life forms are created and a night period during which no

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creation takes place each of these periods is also 4.32 billion years long in other words one day of lord brahma on the universal scale is 8.64 billion years long it's interesting to note that

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according to modern scientific discoveries the oldest life form on the earth is 4.28 billion years old mahakalp gulp a unit at universal scale is further extended with days and years

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similar on earth so that a month at the universal scale is 30 gulp that is 30 universal days and a year at the universal scale is 12 such universal months

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this enables life forms to rise and fall in accordance with the karma they have earned on the universal scale hundred years are defined as the life span of a universe this is called a mahakal

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a universe is said to end at the end of its hundred years of age so the lifespan of an entire universe is 8.64 multiplied by 30 multiplied by 12

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multiplied by 100 billion years which totals to around 311.04 trillion years the ancient indian texts says that our universe is currently on the first day

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of its 51st year during this day we are in the kalyuk of the 28th maha yoga of the seventh manwanter so we have come to the calculation once again according to ancient indian texts the

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age of the universe is 50 universal years plus six manwanters plus seven santikal plus 28 mahayoga 50 universal years equal to 8.64

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multiplied by 30 multiplied by 12 multiplied by 50 billion years equal to 155 520 billion years six manhunters

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six multiplied by 306.72 million years equal to hundred and 1840 point three two million years seven samdhika seven multiplied by one point seven two eight million years

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equal to twelve point zero nine six million years 28 maha yoke 28 multiplied by 4.32 million years equal to 120.96 million years

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so the age of the universe as per ancient hindu texts is 157.49 trillion years modern science tells us that the universe is around 13.79 billion years old however ancient

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indian texts predict a much longer timeline ancient indian texts says that the age of the universe is around 311 trillion years this video is only an attempt to

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appreciate the great scale of time on which ancient indians were working we do not come across any other ancient civilizations that talk in terms of billions or trillions of years of calculations with specific names given

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to such large periods of time like the famous american cosmologist carl sagan said in his book cosmos the hindu religion is the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the cosmos itself undergoes an

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immense indeed an infinite number of deaths and rebirths it is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology its cycles run from our ordinary day and

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night to a day and night of brahma 8.64 billion years long longer than the age of the earth or the sun and about half the time since the big bang thank you so much guys for watching this video if you liked it like comment and

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