Srila Prabhupada - "Whatever we see is within this one universe, we cannot see outside of it".

What we see in the material universe is all within our 4 billion mile diameter universe.

We CANNOT see outside our individual universe according to Srila Prabhupada.

It is impossible to see the millions of other Brahmandas outside our inner universe (that s deep inside a massive Brahmanda) because of being surrounded by 7 thick material layers, Srila Prabhupada explains-

Srila Prabhupada - ''The Vedic literature informs us that within this universe there is one sun, which is moving. The Western theory that all the luminaries in the sky are different suns is not confirmed in the Vedic literature.

Nor can we assume that these luminaries are the suns of other universes, for each universe is covered by various layers of material elements, and therefore although the universes are clustered together, we CANNOT see from one universe to another.

In other words, whatever we see is within this one universe.

In each universe there is one Lord Brahmā, and there are other demigods on other planets, but there is only one sun''.

 - Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 5 Chapter 21 Text 11, Purport:

Maybe the material scientists are tricked by the "hall of mirrors" effect that some other scientists have suggested is caused reflections of light from other luminaries that makes the our small material universe appear to be way bigger than what it is.

A wise man and women will seek freedom from this ''material'' law of karma and seek out a teacher, a pure devotee of Krishna who can guide one out of this temporary decaying material creation of cause and effect.

Why do we suffer or enjoy happiness in this material world?

Why are we put into situations where we experience natural disasters, car accidents, war, disease, being rich or poor or perfectly healthy or suffer disability both physical and mentally?

The answer is ''nothing in the material Universe happens by accident'' everything that happens to us good or bad are the reactions to our own individual actions coming from many past lives.

The love you give is the love you receive but real love is service to Krishna

Karma (car-ma) is a Sanskrit word meaning the result of a person's actions as well as the actions themselves. It is a term about the cycle of cause and effect.

According to the principles of Karma, what happens to a person in this life is influenced by build up of actions good or bad deeds coming from millions of past lives and visiting this life.

Everything good or bad we do has reactions that will revisit us in this life or a future life.

Everything eventually comes back to us. This is the laws of the Universe.

We are all put into a situation according to our karma, the family we enter, the geographical place we take birth in and the wealth or poverty we are born in.

As Jesus also says ''As you sow so shall you repeat''.

A wise man and women will seek freedom from this ''material'' law of karma and seek out a teacher, a pure devotee of Krishna who can guide one out of this temporary decaying material creation of cause and effect.

It is impossible to see the millions of other Brahmandas outside our inner universe (inside a massive Brahmanda) because of being surrounded by 7 thick material layers that only mystic yogis and advanced devotees can see through

What we see in this universe is all within our 4 billion mile diameter individual universe, we CANNOT see outside of our small universe. Therefore It is impossible to see the millions of other Brahmanda universes outside our inner universe (that is deep inside a massive Brahmanda) because of being surrounded by 7 thick material layers that only rare mystic yogis and advanced devotees can see and pass through in their subtle material bodies

Srila Prabhupada explains why we cannot see outside our own universe - Srila Prabhupada - ''The Vedic literature informs us that within this universe there is one sun, which is moving. The Western theory that all the luminaries in the sky are different suns is not confirmed in the Vedic literature. Nor can we assume that these luminaries are the suns of other universes, for each universe is covered by various layers of material elements, and therefore although the universes are clustered together, we CANNOT see from one universe to another. In other words, whatever we see is within this one universe. In each universe there is one Lord Brahmā, and there are other demigods on other planets, but there is only one sun''.
- Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 5 Chapter 21 Text 11, Purport:

Garbhodakaśāyī Vishnu is an expansion of Mahā Vishnu and with Lord Brahma, resides in a secondary universe that is deep within Maha Vishnu's Brahmanda greater universe.

Garbhodakaśāyī Vishnu below in painting is an expansion of Mahā Vishnu and resides with Lord Brahma deep within Maha Vishnu's Brahmanda greater universe.

There are millions of these Brahmanda universes, each with a Garbhodakasayi Vishnu and Lord Brahma who reside within in a smaller secondary universe that is surrounded by the greater Brahmanda egg shaped universe.

All these Brahmanda's originate from the Body of Maha Vishnu (Kāraṇodakaśāyī Vishnu)

In Gaudīya Vaishnavism the Sātvata-tantra describes three different forms of Vishnu as:

1 - Mahā Vishnu a.k.a. Kāraṇodakaśāyī Vishnu
2 - Garbhodakaśāyī Vishnu Seen in painting below)
3 - Ksirodakaśāyī Vishnu (Paramātmā).

Each form has a different role in the maintenance of the Universe and its inhabitants.

"For material creation, Lord Krishna's plenary expansion assumes three Vishnus.

1 - The first, Mahā Viṣhṇu, creates the total material energy, known as the mahat-tattva.

2 - The second, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, enters into all the universes to create diversities.

3 - The third, Kṣīrodakaśāyī Vishnu, is diffused as the all-pervading super soul in all the universes; in the heart of every living being, is known as Paramātmā.

He is present even within the atoms.The real objective of meditation in Yoga is attaining a state of Paramātmā. Anyone who realises them can be liberated from material entanglement."

Garbhodhakaśāyī Viṣṇu is an expansion of Mahā Viṣṇu (expansion of Saṃkarṣaṇa of second caturvyūha, which expands from Nārāyaṇa in Vaikuṇṭhaloka).

Garbhodhakaśāyī Vishnu is realized as the form of Pradyumna within the material universe .

He is the father of Brahmā who appeared from His navel and hence Garbhodakashayi Vishnu is also called Hiraņyagarbha.

The Pancha Tattva - "Pancha means "five" and Tattva means "truth" or "reality".

The Pancha Tattva.

Pancha means "five" and Tattva means "truth" or "reality".

In the Gaudiya Vaishnavism or the Krishna Consciousness movement, (The Hare Krishna Movement) Pancha Tattva refers specifically to the Five aspects of God or Absolute Truth.

In Gaudiya Vaishnavism these five Personalities appeared on Earth at the end of the 15th Century.

Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared on Earth on the 18th of February 1486

Therefore five great personalities appeared in the late 15th century -

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu,
Nityananda Prabhu,
Advaita Acharya,
Gadadhara Pandita,
Srivasa Thakura.

They famously spread the Hare Krishna mantra, and the practice of devotion (bhakti) to Krishna throughout India.

1 - Chaitnya Mahaprabhu is Krishna Himself, The Supreme Person (Svayam Bhagavan).

2 - Nityananda is Krishna's first personal expansion with a combined power of Balarama,

3 - Advaita Acharya is a combined incarnation of Lord Vishnu & Lord Shiva (Harihara).

4 - Gadadhara is a combined incarnation of Radha, Lalita (gopi) and Krishna's internal energy.

5 - Srivasa is Krishna's pure devotee and symbolizes devotion. The great sage Naradha Muni is Srivasa

"I bow down to Lord Krishna, who appears as a supreme devotee (Lord Chaitanya),

As His personal expansion (Sri Nityananda),
His incarnation (Sri Advaita),
His devotee (Sri Srivasa),
His energy (Sri Gadadhara),
and who is the source of strength for the devotees." (Chaitanya Charitamrita Adi 1.147.6)

Within the Gaudiya tradition a mantra formed from the names of the five members of the Pancha Tattva is often spoken or sung as a means of devotional worship or meditation (japa).

Often this mantra is sung or chanted prior to the Hare Krishna mantra.

It is believed by followers to be the most merciful mantra available in this age of Kali.

śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda,śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda.

Everything Personal and Impersonal, including all activity and inactivity exists in Krishna's effulgence known as the Spiritual Sky, Brahman and the Brahmajyoti.

Brahman, also known as the Brahmajyoti, is NOT a place in outer space as some believe, it is an effulgent collective of multiple unlimited individual living entities that surrounds Krishna's Body and also known as the Spiritual Sky.

And everything Personal and Impersonal, including all activity and inactivity exists in Krishna's effulgence too.

Brahman, Brahmajyoti or Spiritual Sky is made up of unlimited individual living entities of all types, from Vishnu tattvas (93% of Krishna's 64 qualities) to Vishnu-Shakti-tattvas (93%), to Shiva tattva (84%), to jiva tattvas (78%).

EVERYTHING exists in the Spiritual Sky which is Krsnaloka, Vishnulokas, Material creation and the Impersonal Brahman.

Brahman IS the "living effulgence made up of unlimited individual jivas" all surrounding Krishna's Body in both Personal and Impersonal realities or realms.

So another name for Brahman and Brahmajyoti can also be the Spiritual Sky.

The Spiritual Sky has EVERYTHING in it, both personally active worlds full of active jivatmas or impersonal inactive realities also full of jivatmas in a dormant state.

Within the Spiritual Sky EVERYTHING exists in a beginningless and endless manifestation.

There is the "personal (active) and Impersonal (inactive or dormant)"

The "Impersonal" Brahman is a state of individual dormant consciousness manifested by the individual jivatma while deep in meditative inactivity on the mental plateform, a completely dreamless existence.

Impersonal Brahman consciousness is like the consciousness in a rock that is dead.

The Spiritual Sky can therefore either manifest both personal or impersonal Brahman realms.

The painting below shows the Spiritual Sky that has a dark cloud in it as well. That dark cloud is called the material creation.

Lecture on SB 7.9.10-11 -- Montreal, July 14, 1968:

Mālatī - "What I want to know is if you worship Kṛṣṇa do you go to Kṛṣṇaloka?"

Prabhupāda - "Yes".

Mālatī - "And if you worship Viṣṇu, what happens to you? Where do you go? What happens to those people?"

Prabhupāda - "He goes to Viṣṇuloka".

Mālatī - "And is it eternal?"

Prabhupāda - "Yes. Any place in the Spiritual sky is eternal. Viṣṇu planet or Kṛṣṇa planet are all in the Spiritual world.

Or the impersonal Brahman, that is also in the spiritual world. So somebody wants to be merged into the Brahman effulgence, so that is also a Spiritual world.

Somebody wants to go into the Viṣṇu planet, that is also in the Spiritual world. And somebody wants to go to this Kṛṣṇa planet, that is also in the Spiritual sky.

But there are differences even in the Spiritual sky.

The difference between Spiritual sky and material sky is that everything in the Spiritual sky is eternal, and everything in the material sky is temporary".

Gurudāsa - "Isn't Brahmajyoti temporary in the fact that you can come back down to the earth? Back to the material World?"

Prabhupāda - "Brahmajyoti means spiritual sky. This material sky means Brahmajyoti is covered by material cloud. Actually, everything is Brahmajyoti and like the clear sky, but a portion of the sky is sometimes covered by cloud. The whole sky is never covered by sky.

Similarly, some portion is covered by this material atmosphere, that is called material world.

Actually, the original sky is spiritual. Original the sky is full of sunshine, but the covered portion means we cannot see the sunshine. Covered portion by cloud means we cannot see the sunshine.

Similarly, this material sky means we cannot see the Spiritual effulgence. That is the difference. Otherwise, even this material sky is also a Spiritual sky.

The painting below shows the Spiritual Sky that has a dark cloud in it as well. That dark cloud is called the material creation.

There are 7 material thick layers (qualities of material energy) in the Brahmanda surrounding and encasing our small material universe we are in.

There are 7 material thick layers (qualities of material energy) surrounding our small material universe we are in.

Each layer encasing our small universe is 10 times greater than the previous layer as Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 3 Chapter 11 text 41 tells us -

At the outer edge of our inner universe is the following  covering putting us deep inside the surrounding Brahmanda.

1 - 4 billion miles × by 10 = 40 billion miles (Earth covering)

2 - 40 billion miles × by 10 = 400 billion miles (water covering)

3 - 400 billion miles × by 10 = 4 Trillion miles (fire covering)

4 - 4 Trillion miles × by 10 = 40 Trillion miles (air covering)

5 - 40 Trillion miles × by 10 = 400 Trillion miles (sky or ether covering)

6 - 400 Trillion miles × by 10 = 4 Quadrillion miles (false ego covering)

7 - 4 Quadrillion miles (mind and intelligence covering) × by 10 = 40 Quadrillion

The eight separate energies in the material creation.

Bhagavad Gita As It Is

Chapter 7: Knowledge of the Absolute

TEXT 4

bhumir apo 'nalo vayuh
kham mano buddhir eva ca
ahankara itiyam me
bhinna prakrtir astadha

1 - bhumih—earth;
2 - apah—water;
3 - analah—fire;
4 - vayuh—air;
5 - kham—ether;
6 - manah—mind;
7 - buddhih—intelligence;
8 - ahankarah—false ego;

TRANSLATION

Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego—altogether these eight comprise My separated material energies.

PURPORT

The science of God analyzes the constitutional position of God and His diverse energies. Material nature is called prakrti, or the energy of the Lord in His different purusa incarnations (expansions) as described in the Svatvata Tantra:

visnos tu trini rupani purusakhyany atho viduh
ekantu mahatah srastr dvitiyam tv anda-samsthitam
trtiyam sarvabhuta-stham tani jnatva vimucyate

"For material creation, Lord Krsna's plenary expansion assumes three Visnus.

1 - The first one, Maha-Visnu, creates the total material energy, known as mahat-tattva.

2 - The second, Garbhodakasayi Visnu, enters into all the universes to create diversities in each of them.

3 - The third, Ksirodakasayi Visnu, is diffused as the all-pervading Supersoul in all the universes and is known as Paramatma, who is present even within the atoms.

Anyone who knows these three Visnus can be liberated from material entanglement."

This material world is a temporary manifestation of one of the energies of the Lord. All the activities of the material world are directed by these three Visnu expansions of Lord Krsna.

These Purusas are called incarnations. Generally one who does not know the science of God (Krsna) assumes that this material world is for the enjoyment of the living entities and that the living entities are the causes (Purusas), controllers and enjoyers of the material energy.

According to Bhagavad-gita this atheistic conclusion is false. In the verse under discussion it is stated that Krsna is the original cause of the material manifestation. Srimad-Bhagavatam also confirms this.

The ingredients of the material manifestation are separated energies of the Lord. Even the brahmajyoti, which is the ultimate goal of the impersonalists, is a spiritual energy manifested in the spiritual sky.

There are no spiritual diversities in brahmajyoti as there are in the Vaikunthalokas, and the impersonalist accepts this brahmajyoti as the ultimate eternal goal.

The Paramatma manifestation is also a temporary all-pervasive aspect of the Ksirodakasayi Visnu. The Paramatma manifestation is not eternal in the spiritual world.

Therefore the factual Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna. He is the complete energetic person, and He possesses different separated and internal energies.

In the material energy, the principal manifestations are eight, as above mentioned. Out of these, the first five manifestations, namely earth, water, fire, air and sky, are called the five gigantic creations or the gross creations, within which the five sense objects are included.

They are the manifestations of physical sound, touch, form, taste and smell. Material science comprises these ten items and nothing more. But the other three items, namely mind, intelligence and false ego, are neglected by the materialists.

Philosophers who deal with mental activities are also not perfect in knowledge because they do not know the ultimate source, Krsna. The false ego-"I am," and "It is mine," which constitute the basic principle of material existence-includes ten sense organs for material activities.

Intelligence refers to the total material creation, called the mahat-tattva. Therefore from the eight separated energies of the Lord are manifest the twenty-four elements of the material world, which are the subject matter of sankhya atheistic philosophy; they are originally offshoots from Krsna's energies and are separated from Him.

But atheistic sankhya philosophers with a poor fund of knowledge do not know Krsna as the cause of all causes.

The subject matter for discussion in the sankhya philosophy is only the manifestation of the external energy of Krsna, as it is described in the Bhagavad-gita.

According to Srimad Bhagavatam, eventually, if one keeps traveling through this single universe we are in, one will run into the outer solid edge of our surrounding Brahmanda that encases this single universe firstly in solid earth 40 billion miles thick.

According to Srimad Bhagavatam, eventually, if one keeps traveling through this single universe we are in, one will run into the outer edge of our surrounding Brahmanda that is solid earth.

This solid barrier of dirt, rocks and earth is 40 billion miles in diameter thick, which is the first layer of the surrounding Brahmanda that encases our entire single 4 billion mile diameter universe with solid matter.

And that is just one layer out of seven that makes up the Brahmanda we are in.

Therefore Prabhupada said we cannot see outside this small material universe we are in and see other Brahmanda universes.

This is because we are enclosed deep inside our bigger Brahmanda egg shaped universe seen here in photo where millions are coming from Maha Vishnu.

In each Brahmanda is another smaller universe like ours.

The "billion miles (500,000 yogins)" diameter of our universe with its 14 planetary systems, could be a code and NOT a distance or the size of our universe.

It is ashame that we do not have more Vedic Cosmology scholars, not even Sadaputa or Dhanavir Maharaj can explain what "our 4 billion mile diameter universe" really means.

They have no idea what all the galaxies are or can use scripture to satisfactory explain it.

Because by studying 5th Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam there is no way we can see anything beyond the 4 billion mile diameter inner universe we are in.

It is impossible to see the millions of other Brahmandas outside our inner universe (inside a massive Brahmanda) because of being surrounded by 7 thick material layers that only mystic yogis and advanced devotees can see through.

Bhagavatam says the first layer of material elements (40 billion miles diameter thick of Earth, stone, dirt, rocks) that our "Brahmanda" surrounds and encases our inner universe with, no one can see through, it is NOT possible to see the millions of Brahmanda's through the solid material elements encasing our 4 billion mile diameter universe.

This is according to Srimad Bhagavatam 5th Canto, if you believe its present meaning of "4 billion mile diameter" which with all available evidence may not be properly translated.

The "billion miles (500,000 yogins)" could be a code and NOT a distance.

According to Srimad Bhagavatam, from one edge of our outer inner Brahmanda across to the other edge of our inner Brahmanda that surrounds and encases our material universe, the distance and diameter is a mere 4 billion miles.

Further more, our surrounding outer Brahmanda is solid matter in some places, like earth, water to some extent, fire.

The brahmanda that our universe is deep inside, is made up of 7 material layers, not all are elements, each layer 10 times bigger in size than the previous layer.

The first layer is solid earth explained in Srimad Bhagavatam's 5th Canto to be 40 billion miles in diameter completely incases our small inner 4 billion mile diameter inner universe.

Then the next layer is water being 400 billion miles in diameter.

The entire 7 is explained in pinned post of the Facebook page "Vedic Cosmology decoding the 5th Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam"

Sadly, if you repeat such information to modern Cosmologists and scientists that our universe is 4 billion miles in diameter and impossible to see out of, they will think you are mad and crazy!

And they have a point, to start with man has sent space probes to Pluto 4.5 billion miles away and Voyager launched in 1977 is 22 billion miles away.

And these are not hoaxs as foolish youtube conspiracy theorists believe.

So my conclusion is the figure of 4 billion miles means something else, there is absolutely noway our universe with its 14 planetary systems is 4 billion miles in diameter, it is foolish to even suggest it!

This figure 4 billion miles (500,000 yogins) MUST have another meaning we have not discovered yet

Our Solar System is NOT 4 billion miles in diameter, Sadaputa said out to Jupitor it is which is wrong, many ideas from Sadaputa are frankly nonsense.

What ISKCON and the Gaudiya Math need is someone to explain Vedic Cosmology correctly without these crazy flat earther devotees too.

If not, then there is a very big chance that the TOVP in Mayapur with be the but of jokes to the media, religious communities and the scientific community.

Deep within each of the millions of Brahmanda almost spherical universes originating from Maha Vishnu's breathing them out through His mouth and the pores of His skin, is a secondary universe that is encased and surrounded by that greater Brahmanda material universe.

Our Lord Brahma's 4 billion mile diameter inner universe is called "The Bhu-Mandala Universe".

Our Lord Brahma has 4 heads, his 4 billion mile diameter material creation is made up with 14 different planetary systems.

Deep within each of the millions of Brahmanda universe is a secondary universe that is encased and surrounded by the greater Brahmanda material universe.

Our Earth global sphere is in the 7th planetary system called Bhuloka

The surrounding Brahmanda universe that encases our small 4 billion mile diameter Bhu-Mandala universe, is a massive 44 Quadrillion 444 Trillion 444 billion miles in diameter according to Srimad Bhagavatam 5th Canto.

Other inner universes, like our Bhu-Mandala universe, are also deep within each of the millions of other Brahmandas recently that all originate from the Body of Maha Vishnu.

Each material universe also has their own Brahma who may have 10, 20, 50, 100, 10,000 or even 1000,000 heads.

All material universes are therefore different sizes.

Therefore to claim our small Earth globe is Bhu-Mandala is incorrect, our Earth globe is too small in size to be Bhu-Mandala described in the 5th Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam.

Our small "earth global sphere" is just a small planet within one of Bhu-Mandala's 14 Planetary Systems called Bhurloka (The 8th planetary system from lowest realm (hellish realm) known as Patala loka)

According to Vedic literature, there are many planetary systems. The planetary system in which we are living is called Bhūrloka. Above this planetary system is Bhuvarloka. Above that is Svarloka (the moon belongs to the Svarloka planetary system)

"Sastra does not give any third parties the right to chose a guru for someone else". Very important point, become educated in Spiritual life and then choose your own Guru.

Compiled by His Grace Gaura Keshava Dasa ACBSP

The ISKCON GBC should get out of the guru approval business.

They can solve their dilemma immediately by making a disclaimer that they do not approve of any gurus.

"Sastra does not give any third parties the right to chose a guru for someone else".

Very important point.

Let them educate people how to choose a proper guru, then as the sastra says let the prospective disciple choose.

If you want to choose a fat guru or a thin guru or a male or female guru, that is your choice not theirs as long as you have tested them and found them qualified according to sastra.

They should concentrate on helping ALL ISKCON members follow basic spiritual standards required for ISKCON membership.

If they can do that then what business is it of their's who amongst ISKCON members is guru of whom and who is disciple of whom?

They already have women GBCs. And historically Gaudiya sampradaya has had women diksha gurus. Some misogynist devotees in ISKCON may not like it but for sure must be accepted.

And if you don't want to accept a woman guru no one is forcing anyone to accept them as their guru. But neither can you tell others they cannot have faith and love and trust in a female guru if they do.

Women Vaisnavas already are siksha gurus. The only difference between what they do now and what they would do at diksha gurus is speaking a mantra into someones ear. Does it make sense they can't do that?

Read the following letter by Srila Prabhupada where he specifically orders his female disciple to chant the gayatri mantra in the ear of her husband to initiate him on his behalf into becoming a brahmin:

Bombay
4 April, 1971
71-04-04

Georgetown, Guyana

My Dear Vaikunthanatha and Saradia,

Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your very encouraging letter dated 21st March, 1971 and have noted the contents carefully....

Even though you have had no gayatri mantra, still you are more than brahmana. I am enclosing herewith your sacred thread, duly chanted on by me. Gayatri mantra is as follows:

[TAKEN OUT - ]

ASK YOUR WIFE TO CHANT THIS MANTRA AND YOU HEAR IT AND IF POSSIBLE HOLD A FIRE CEREMONY AS YOU HAVE SEEN DURING YOUR MARRIAGE AND GET THIS SACRED THREAD ON YOUR BODY. SARADIA, OR ANY TWICE-INITIATED DEVOTEE, MAY PERFORM THE CEREMONY....

Hoping this will meet you in good health.

Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
ACBS/adb

After reading this no one can argue that Srila Prabhupada would allow a woman to initiate someone with the gayatri mantra he had given her or even perform a fire ceremony.

READ IT AGAIN IF YOU DON'T GET IT. - Compiled by Gaura Keshava

So lets understand a day-night 24 hour period of Brahma (8 billion 640 million human years)

Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu comes to this world every 8 billion 640 million years which is how long one 24 hour day and night of Lord Brahma takes to pass.

Further more Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu only appears during the day-time between "sunrise and sunset" which is also when all the 1000 Maha-yugas take place.

There are no Maha yugas at night between "sunset and sunrise" of Brahma's 24 hour day.

A Maha yuga (Also known as a Catur yuga and Dvipa yuga) is cycle of 4 Yugas.

''Satya-yuga, Treta-yuga, Dvapara-yuga, Kali-yuga''.

Lord Caitanya comes at the beginning of just "one" Kali-yuga out of every thousand.

So lets understand a day-night 24 hour period of Lord Brahma

Every 24 hour day equals 2 Kalpas

1 - There is ''one kalpa'' for a "sunrise to sunset" day time that also has all the 1000 Maha-yugas in it.

2 - There is also ''one kalpa'' for "sunset to sunrise" night time period of Lord Brahma where NO Maha-yugas exist.

Presently we are in 28 Maha-yugas within the 7th Manu named ''Vaivasvata'' out of 14 Manu's that exist during Brahma's day-time only.

None exist during his night time.

There are 71 Maha-yugas within each of the 14 Manus.

This means Brahma's day has already gone through the first 7 Manu's plus the first 28 Maha-yugas of the 8 Manu we are in equalling 525 maha-yugas into Brahma's day.

This means it is about 11.40 am in Brahma's late morning period of the day

This further means the 1000 Maha-yugas in Brahma's day-time only occurs from "sunrise to sunset" or during the day-time that takes 4 billion 320 human years to pass.

During Brahma's night from sunset to sunrise, no Maha-yugas take place while Brahma sleeps and a partial annihilation takes place. This "sunset to sunrise" is also 4 billion 320 human years long.

One 24 hours full day of Brahma is 2 kalpas and takes 8 billion 640 million human years to pass through.

So presently as explained, we have already passed through the previous 6 Manvantaras in Brahma's day and are now into the 7th Manu out of 14 Manu.

All 14 Manus have 71 Maha-yugas in them.

And this is just one day of Lord Brahma only.

Brahma lives for 311 trillion 40 billion years then dies, then there is another 311 trillion 40 billion years of inactivity until another Brahma manifests.

All souls not qualified to go back to Godhead are stored in the Body of Maha Vishnu as individual units until the next creation of this single universe by the next Brahma.

There are millions of universes and Brahmas other than ours that are also deep inside a Brahmanda that all come from the body of Maha Vishnu.

Then they carry on and get another material body according to the combination of their karma and material desires from where they left off in the previous Brahma's creation in this universe inside our Brahmanda.