Dwapara Yuga - The Vedic Age

In the book the Vedic Aryans and the origins of civilization, the following interesting timeline is presented:

• 3800 BC (Descending Treta 2900) and before - High Vedic Age, the Rig Veda
• 3100 BC (Descending Dwapara 0) - Mahabharata War, Kurukshetra, Gita, Canonization of the Vedas by Vyasa
• 1900 BC (Descending Dwapara 1200) - Drying up of the Saraswati river and end of the Vedic Age

Thus from a Yuga perspective we can see that the High Vedic Age was part of Descending Treta Yuga. It fell, right at the beginning of Descending Dawpara Yuga and collapsed mid-way through.

The book's authors argue that earlier Sanskrit scholars were unduly influenced by a) Colonial interests, for example Max Muller being in the pay of the British, b) "Aryan" racial theories and c) Fundamentalist Christian time-lines with comparatively recent dates for the origins of the world. To this day in Glen Rose, TX there are parallel museums, one for dinosaur tracks set in stone and another for creationism.

The ruins of one of the last cities associated with the Vedic Age are at Mohenjo-daro in modern Pakistan.

Built in 2600 BC (Descending Dwapara 500) and abandoned in 1500 BC (Descending Dwapara 1600), it was not rediscovered until 1922 AD (Ascending Dwapara 222).

Much as for Ancient Egypt, earlier strata at the site show higher civilization, descending as we move forward in time. Extreme radioactivity suggests that nuclear attack may have marked the end of the city. Much as for all facts prior to Ascending Dwapara Yuga, competing theories and dates mar definitive conclusions and can lead to unflattering comparisons with literature of the style popularized by Dennis Wheatley -the devil rides out (a bit). Such comparisons are perhaps a constrictive reflex, an unwillingness to accept higher civilization in the past by peoples today in underdeveloped nations and dismissing their cultural heritage as just so much 'mumbo jumbo'.

Incantations and mantra, caught both in prayers and phrases such as Abracadabra (Abracadabra sounds as Abrahadabra, in Aramaic this word roughly translates into "I will create as I speak.") far from suggesting underdevelopment hark back to Treta Yuga when the appropriate thought forms could be made reality much as in the '60s cartoon the Arabian Nights a character could transform himself just by saying so - 'Size of an elephant!" In Kali Yuga and Ascending Dwapara, masters aside, anyone can make such a demand to call 'devils from the vasty deep' but the likelihood is that they will not come since the method requires appropriate mental rather than simply egoic development.

This week the Forbes list of most wealthy people was announced. Perhaps the most remarkable news was that it was headed by a Mexican national and filled with a host of Chinese billionaires suggesting that underdeveloped nations and unknown civilizations will not eternally be so. Modern America is swept since the dawn of Dwapara Yuga with ever growing interest in Yoga, Chi Kong and Shamanic cultures and a nagging disenchantment with Malls, suburban deserts, one ton SUVs, three hour commutes and industrialized education, family and work life.

When reading books of ancient history or archeology, it's helpful to have a quick Yuga calculator to situate the dates and provide new insight. It can hardly be a mere coincidence that the Mahabharata War falls right at the boundary of Treta and Dwapara, or that Einstein discovered matter and energy are interchangeable right at the boundary of Dwapara and Kali, just at the same time that Sri Yukteswar corrected the Kali era misinterpretation of the ancient Yuga calculations found in the Vedas.

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