Namaste Yajvan,
There is an annual precessional advance of about 50 angular seconds, which amounts to 1 degree in 72 years, 30 degrees in 2,160 years, 60 degrees in 4,320 years, and 360 degrees in 25,920 years.
The actual period slightly variable, but the present value is about 25,826 years. The traditional figure of 25,920 and its various factors appear repeatedly in calculations of cosmic ages, aeons, and eras . And in this ‘Great Year’ there are reckoned 360 ‘Days’ of 72 years, 12 ‘Months’ of 2,160 years, and 6 ‘Seasons’ of 4,320 years. The Mahabharata gives 432,000 years as the extent of the Present Age (Kali-Yuga), which is equivalent to 100 ‘Great Seasons’ (16.6 ‘Years’), and this Kaliyuga would therefore experience 33 full cycles of (supposed) waxing and waning dharma before its conclusion. Yuga also means Four, and the extent of previous Ages in a quadruple cycle has been calculated by multiplying 432 by its own digits (4, 3, and 2).
And so, with a basic period of 432,000 years, the other Yugas are 864,000 years (Dvapara), 1,296,000 years (Treta), and 1,728,000 years (Satya). One Mahayuga (a complete cycle of all the Four Yugas) would thus span 4,320,000 years.
Svami Yukteshvar has reduced the whole Mahayuga to approximately 6 ‘Months’ in the precessional ‘Year’, so that all 4 Yugas represent a continual decline in Dharma. And after this degenerating Mahayuga there must be an opposite Mahayuga of continually increasing Dharma, during which the sequence of Yugas is reversed.
The currently estimated time for half a precessional cycle is actually 12,913 years.
Now, I assume that Vega, as the pole-star, indicates the high point in earthly Dharma. And Polaris (our current pole-star) is almost exactly opposed to Vega, so I assume that we must right now be at the lowest ebb in earthly Dharma (i.e. at the close of Kaliyuga).
This suggestion really makes no sense to me!
The attached figure shows the apparently fixed point of Polaris, and the path that the northern celestial pole actually circumscribes during the Earth’s 26,000 year precession. And the truly fixed point at the centre of this (unmarked by any star, and from our small perspective always moving) is revealed!
Thuban (Alpha Draconis) was the pole-star in about 2,700 BC, and Vega is just off the top of the map.
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