Hindu scriptures have professed the concept and the theory of time dilation more than 5000 years back. You must be thinking - “Now what was that?” I would humbly refer to an event found in the epic of Mahabharata that is not so popular and talked about.
Once upon a time, there was a kingdom beneath the oceans. It was ruled by a very nice and benevolent king called King Kakudmi. The king had an extremely beautiful daughter Revati. King Kakudmi was not able to find a capable life partner for his beautiful daughter, amongst the earthling. Therefore he decided to consult Bramha - the creator of the universe, by himself to find a capable groom for Revati. Since Lord Bramha was already absorbed in the music of the Gandharvas, Kakudmi decided to wait patiently for Gandharvas to finish their concert. After applauding their performance, Lord Bramha was amused to see King Kakudmi an earthling waiting at his doorstep with his beautiful daughter. King Kakudmi sought consultations of the Lord Himself to find an appropriate groom for Revati. Bramha laughed at that moment and said, “O King, you have come to my doorstep. Here on this plane of the universe, time is different from what it is on earth. In the time that you were waiting here, 27 chaturyugs have passed by on earth. Your kingdom is long gone by and all of the grooms existing in your era on earth are now dead. All of your fore generations are already dead and an altogether different kind of human life is now growing itself on earth.”
Now Let us dig deeper into this concept of Chaturyugs and understand it better. 1 Chaturyug is actually 1 Mahayug made up of the 4 Yugs viz. the Satya Yug, Treta Yug, Dwapara Yug, and the Kali Yug. 1 Yug equals to 432,000 human years. However, the Hindu scriptures shaking hands with Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity asserts that these 432,000 human years are nothing but 0.01% of 1 day of Lord Bramha. While 1 Maha Yug is 0.1% of Bramha’s day. So if you calculate backward, 27 Chaturyugs (27 Maha Yugs) roughly turn out to be 78 minutes of Bramha’s day and that is the time King Kakudmi was waiting at Bramha’s doorstep with his daughter while the earth below spinning itself while revolving around the sun successfully completed 432,000 X 10 X 27 years of its life (1 Maha Yug = 10 Yugs).
Now let us move to the second part of the story of King Kakudmi, Revati, and Lord Brahma. Lord Brahma assures King Kakudmi that the Lords themselves are now set to take an Avatar on the earth and thus you can give Revati’s marriage to one of them. King Kakudmi and her daughter Revati after setting back on earth find a completely different picture from the time he left. Then comes Lord Balaram, the brother of Lord Krishna himself who is one capable person to marry Revati. So as per Brahma’s suggestions, King Kakudmi marries Revati to Balaram.
Not just that the landscape and the places have changed, however, the striking difference is the change in the human race itself. Instead of progressing, the human race has degraded itself. People at present are of lower intellectual and lower physical capabilities than it used to be.
Subroneel Saha is high in life. He enjoys life and believes to savour everything by doing along the path with passion, which he considers to be the most important part of the experience. He is a prolific writer on history, mythology, sacred lore, legends, folklore, fables and parables, and for challenging willful misinterpretations of ancient Indian and world scriptures, stories, symbols, and rituals. He intents to break the dogma and reveal the intentional part of every myth and the story, with the relevance with business, management, social life, student life.Image Courtesy: Internet
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