The real meaning of Yugas || Acharya Prashant, on Vedanta (2021)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 What is Satyug? Satyug is when the mind is totally centered in the Self, the Truth.

00:23 Treta is when the mind is identified with thoughts.

00:30 Dwapar is the body and Kali Yuga is Sansar.

00:41 So, there is indeed a movement here and the movement is progressively away from the center.

00:53 When the mind is closest to the center, you call it Satyug and when the mind is farthest

01:02 from the center, you call it Satyug. Which means some of us might be in this moment in Satyug.

01:11 You are already living in Satyug.

01:17 It's not as if we are condemned to live all our life in Kali Yuga.

01:24 And unfortunately, some of us might be intermittently slipping away to Kali Yuga.

01:34 When you are living a Truth-centered life, you are living in Satyug.

01:44 When you are living a World-centered life, you are living in Kali Yuga.

01:52 Getting it? That's how we are to comprehend it. These are not spans on the calendar.

02:05 These are not expanses in chronology. These are simply states of mind.

02:16 Are you getting it? So, what's the Rishi saying here? He's saying that which originated in Satyug

02:32 God expands manifestation in Treta Yuga, which is right, because Truth

02:44 originates from the Self and then through the poet Sears finds expression in language

02:59 and languages, thoughts. Even if you are extremely meditative, yet

03:06 language necessitates some degree of thought. Otherwise, you will not be able to speak at all.

03:18 How will you remember which word to use? Even if you are extremely meditative, even if you

03:26 are totally centered in the Truth, yet you will have to retain some of your memory to express

03:35 what you are seeing. Right? So, when the Sears express themselves, they have to maintain a very

03:50 thin distance from the Truth. Otherwise, they will recede into a great blissful silence.

03:57 Their silence will be wonderful for them, but not useful for the world.

04:06 And the Rishis have students sitting in front of them. Remember, the setting is that of Upanishads.

04:17 It's a face-to-face conversation. The Rishi has to speak because the student cannot relate with

04:24 the silence of the Sear. The silence is beautiful but totally internal. It cannot be transferred

04:31 or communicated. Only words can be communicated and words, as we said, necessitate memory,

04:38 which in turn is thought. Are you getting? So, what is being actually said here is that

04:46 that which originates from the center finds expression via the Sear through thoughts and words.

04:57 And what is the name of that expression? The name of that expression is the Upanishads.

05:01 Getting? So, what does Treta stand for here?

05:09 The expression. The expression that is rooted in Satyug. The silent root in Satyug finds poetic

05:19 expression in Treta Yug. That does not mean that the root waited for a few million years

05:26 to find expression because we are not talking of calendar events here. We are not dealing in

05:34 history here. We are dealing in mind here. Clear? And about the time, the Yugas is the state of

05:44 mind. So, maybe I am asking this question because I am not, for the first time I have heard this

05:50 type of definition. So, for example, it is mentioned in our mythological stories that,

05:56 Dasarath in his old life, he kept a tapasya for thousands of years and then got Ram.

06:04 So, and the salvation methods like in Treta, there was, we have to do Yagya and in

06:11 Satyug, we have to do meditation for thousands of years and so on.

06:16 So, I saw one of your video about Big Bang, where you told that time is something that

06:23 starts from you. So, like this is, can you throw some more light on it? Like I am not able to get

06:30 it. When you say that time is something that starts from you and about the Yugas as a state of mind.

06:36 See, first thing about mythological stories, in the spiritual world, stories are for kids.

06:48 They have an importance and the importance is that when a seeker is not prepared enough,

06:54 then you entertain or prepare him with stories.

06:59 So, that's why every religious order or tradition has a lot of stories.

07:07 Why? Because a lot of people are always immature and unprepared.

07:17 You cannot give them the bare truth. So, what do you give them?

07:23 You give them stories. You say better stories than nothing.

07:27 So, don't take mythological stories too seriously.

07:32 While you have to also remember that all mythological stories contain the truth at their

07:42 center. Yet a story is not just its center. A story is the entire narrative, the entire expanse,

07:49 the twists and the turns, the entire build-up, the ebb and the flow and the whole thing.

07:58 And that not really is the truth. That just really is something that keeps you captivated.

08:07 At the same time, also keeps you in the loop that spirals up in a way, you know, an upward spiral.

08:18 It's a loop that takes you gradually upwards. So, that's the whole purpose of stories.

08:25 Now about time.

08:33 It's very straightforward.

08:35 If nothing changes at all, would you say time has elapsed?

08:51 That's what time is. Something that you use to measure change,

09:02 if within you and without you nothing changes at all, then time stands frozen.

09:15 And where is it that all the change happens?

09:23 Mind. Therefore, mental activity is another name for time.

09:29 If the mind is very restless and change is happening frequently,

09:45 then you talk of time in a particular way.

09:51 And if the mind is tranquil and there is not much change, then you talk of time in a different way.

10:03 Alright? Spirituality is not concerned with changes that you see here and there.

10:14 So, right now what I have said pertains more to your inner time.

10:20 Now, even when your inner time stands still, you could argue that externally things will keep

10:32 happening, though even that can be contested. You see, without any change happening,

10:40 even the clock would cease to move. Some change has to happen somewhere. Otherwise,

10:46 in fact, the very movement of the clock is the change.

10:48 But you need not go into that because that will become a little too technical.

10:55 Just think of the inner world here.

10:59 Here time is all about your inner state.

11:07 So, always look at time in that way.

11:16 They are not really different because the spiritual world covers the physical world.

11:30 But to begin with, you think of or try to understand the inner world.

11:36 There are no two different worlds. Not as if the inner world and external world are different and

11:44 hence have different rules and different concepts of time. Though that has been said at some places.

11:52 They talk of chronological time and psychological time. But even that distinction is arbitrary.

12:00 But useful. To begin with, it is useful to just look at the psychological aspect of time.

12:07 So, currently there is one more myth which is going on and which is claimed by a very famous

12:16 concurrent guru. So, in that definition he defines these four yugas as a movement of sun across the

12:26 galactic center and when the sun is nearest to that galactic center, there are Satyugas and

12:33 Treta Yugas and when it is farthest, because it is an ecliptical movement, so when it is farthest

12:40 it is Kalyug. I simply laughed at that but there are millions of people who believe in this

12:49 model of Satyuga, Kalyuga and all that as galactic distance between sun and galactic center of

12:57 Milky Way. So, can you, will you speak something on that, sir? I would not have wanted to end it on this.

13:07 I am not used to speaking much on extreme foolishness.

13:24 But sir, this is affecting millions.

13:29 I know, I know, I know. I feel helpless about that. But what do I do?

13:34 I can only say what is the truth and put the reality in front of you.

13:45 What do I do if they command the resources and everything else? What do I do if they are the

13:53 ones having the reach to make their nonsense penetrate every home, every gullible mind?

14:02 What do I do?

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