Re: Appearance of Shri RAm again and again shows cyclical nature of time
om namo bhagavate vAsudevAya
From Yog Vashishthha :
Six times has Vishnu incarnated as Parasurama, the son of Renuka. Buddha has incarnated again and again in 100 Kaliyugas. The Tripura and its denizens have been thirty times consumed by the flames. ..... The eternal Vedas will arise suited to the intelligence of every age. They will be understood more and more with the increase of intelligence. So also are worldly actions marvellous. Though the several Puranas are read in different ways, yet they convey one significance only. Every Yuga, Jnana-Sastras will be embodied in the shape of the stainless Ramayana. Like Rishi Valmiki who recited the Ramayana now, there have been 12 Valmikis who brought out the same before. Bharata, the second of the Itihasas, though composed by the noble Vyasa, is considered by some as a Khila (supplement to the Vedas). In this creation, Sri Rama incarnated for the eleventh time on this earth. He will incarnate again in the wealthy house of Vasudeva. ...
All these will be latent in the one Jnana-Atma, like foams in an ocean and will again revive and again disappear.....
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The conclusions by those expert in shAstrAs is that purANas narrate histories of this and other universes , all existence, over a gigantic time scale but do not give importance to chronology.
AvatArs are listed but not necessarily in chronological order.
Two sacred texts (purANs for instance) could be relating an appearantly identical story, but could be occurences of the exact same thing in two different kalpas.
The goal is transcendental hearing , understanding and learning - like Vashishthha muni implies in the passage above.
Why astronomical projections to identify itihAs events like Shri rAm's appearance is not enough or valid as the only source :
"The palentary positions mentioned in Ramayan would also have occured multiple times in history prior to the calculated date...
Moreover the date calculated is heavily dependent on interpretation of sanskrit verses and softwares or method of calculation. That is why everyone gives his own date with day/month/year and time."
Jai Shri KRshNa
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