Yuga Calendar Calculator for Apple iPhone & iPad

This app is available freely worldwide on Apple's iTunes Store.

Description

This fast, easy to use Yuga Calendar Calculator takes everyday (Gregorian) dates in a wide range from BC to AD (BCE to CE) and converts them to their equivalents on the ancient Hindu cycle of ages known as Yugas, with both a text and graphical output.

The calculation used is that of Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri of Serampore, West Bengal, India.

Students of the Yugas will find it simple to correlate the dates of past events, archeological finds, the lifetimes of religious figures, features in the night sky, predictions of future events and more with their place in the Yuga Ages.

For example:

2525 AD will be Ascending Dwapara 825

2012 AD will be Ascending Dwapara 312

500BC was Descending Kali 200

55000BC was Descending Dwapara 1100

It should be noted that this is not the traditional Hindu calculation, under which we are under Kali Yuga today and will continue to be for thousands of years despite the energy and space conquering nature of the world from 1700.

FAQ for free app

- AD dates are positive and BC dates are entered as a negative with a '-'

- Error checking is simplistic - valid numbers are accepted, invalid ones are treated as 0

- The date range is from -2^31 to 2^31 - 1 and rounds up or down for very, very large years

- Compatible up to iOS 5

Back story

When I first began researching Yugas two decades ago, it was a question of sky-high-priced international phone calls, internationally ordering books by mail and traveling to specific ashrams and centers to slowly piece together a wider picture. The bibliography of this blog is a tiny subset of the actual sources used. I found at the time that no one Kriya Yoga Group publicly presented the complete picture (although out-of-print and photocopied sources from the 20s and 30s did exist but only for those closely connected with older organizational insiders and their circle of acquaintances) and understandably their main focus was and is Kriya Yoga meditation over any particular one aspect of the teachings.

Today, Yuga research is vastly easier and open to everyone with the Internet and global bookstores, such as Amazon.com, with every year more people building on the legacy of Sri Yukteswar's 1894 The Holy Science, Sister Tara Mata's 1933 Astrological World Cycles and Paramhansa Yogananda's 1946 Autobiography of a Yogi.

This blog, 2007 companion book Dwapara Yuga and Yogananda and now calculator do not claim to contain all Yuga knowledge, focusing instead specifically on provable facts in Dwapara Yuga and allowing students to rapidly cover the main, original sources and to arrive at their own conclusions with many pointers to areas and groups to further explore.

I originally thought it was enough to publish the algorithm for developing a Yuga calculator but realized quite quickly that the majority of students do not have the time, inclination or technical expertise to do so and instead chose to present a ready to use product on the most ubiquitous smart phone platform. Such phones, like the 'net itself are part of the march of access to all information, everywhere, all the time which is characteristic of Dwapara Yuga and part of the mission statement of successful companies like Google (although it too is struggling between profits and ethics in ways reminiscent of defacto monopolies from ATT, to IBM and Microsoft and Facecrook).

The blog is not itself a religion, political movement, path, center or any such thing and any profits are donated for the benefit of children in the developing world in the One Laptop Per Child program (third donated in October 2009), which is independent of any Kriya Organization. A debt of gratitude is owed to the entire Kriya Yoga line of gurus and especially to Swami Kriyananda for the clarity of his writings in recent times, inspired by Yoganada's teaching's in the United States from 1920 to 1952.

The knowledge of the Yugas and Yoga today, here in the West, are the fruits of millennia of selfless service to all mankind by Swamis in India, culminating a hundred or so years ago with the missions of Swami Vivekananda and then Paramhansa Yogananda to America and Europe. They came from Bengal, the melting pot of cultures of East and West, once home to the capital of British India. Their legacy opened the door for many later gurus, especially from the 1960s, for example Swami Prabhupada, founding the Hari Krishna's in New York City.

"When every soul will rise above petty divisions in true spiritual understanding world misery will be consumed by the fire of realization of the universality of God and the brotherhood of man."

Groups

Information on the tens of groups disseminating Kriya Yoga in India, America, Europe and around the world can be found here. Positive, constructive news items around Dwapara Yuga and Kriya Yoga are welcome from whatever source on this blog. This site is not a booster of any particular group, or a hate-site against any particular group.

Related iPhone Apps

Ananda has a number of more sophisticated, free iPhone apps available for download here.   As yet, SRF and other Kriya Yoga groups have web presences but no mobile apps.   Please let us know when and if they become available so that they can be listed and publicized.