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The Time and the Kalachakra

The elemental basis of Indian astronomy is a straightforward expression: "Breath is Time".
That is outlined in older upanishads as well as in the astronomical works often known as Siddhanta. In historic India there was no break up between astronomy, religious life, and people. The aim of astronomy was to narrate the macrocosm to the microcosm. The Hindus were not hooked on stargazing for the purpose of giving new labels to stars, nor were they excited about applying religious ideas to technological ends. The scheme might originally have originated from Sumerian tradition, which used base 60 and produces ephemerides superior to these utilized by the Victorians.

The Hindu measures of time are superb or non secular measures. Adepts of the Kalachakra have been effectively conscious of perturbations in planetary cycles, in the year and within the month. In line with this view is the idea that individuals are, like the true solar system, subject to fluctuations, perturbations and inequalities. The periods are based on the numbers 27, 54, 108, 360 and 21600, numbers which we find recurring many times in tantrik texts.

That which is actual is the respiration, say Sanskrit texts. A respiration consists of two halves, an inhalation and an exhalation. The meshing of time and astronomy and breath is the Kalachakra. Mahakala = Brahma = Time. The obstacles to Sun-Moon respiration, or equipose-respiratory, are brought on by conditioning. In keeping with the Indian medical shastra, the ayurveda, meals is of three varieties = impressions, breath, edibles.

Just as with out meals we are starved and die, and without oxygen we suffocate, so without impressions we could not survive. Improper food affects us, faulty breathing starves the blood of oxygen, lack of impressions causes physiological disturbance.

Relating our own physique to cosmology, our earth centre, our physical or planetary physique, is sustained by food. Our emotional centre (Sol) is sustained by breath. Our intellectual centre (Moon) is sustained by impressions.

Speech is breath modulated by the bodily organism in various ways -- depth of breathing, muscle rigidity, form of mouth, form of psychological impressions. The Indian measure is that 10 lengthy syllables make 1 breath. There are smaller subdivisions of time ending with the paramanu -- this is related to the time taken to sense an impression.

The goddess, or shakti, is the whole circle of the Zodiac, Time, the Solar, Moon and Planets, the Constellations, Breath (Prana) and Matrika (See, for instance, Tripurasundari, on this web site). All these factors are thought of to be unified in the Nath custom- Matrika Shakti guidelines all letters of the alphabet, all mantra, and all speech.

Words are said to have a delusive nature (Mahamaya Matrika) as a result of the phrase itself, although it could contain a reference to an object is commonly surrounded by clusters or Kulas of lesser Shaktis, These lesser Shaktis themselves indicate other references to objects. These Shaktis embody what are called 'associations of thought', clusters of sense impressions, related maybe by hyperlinks that are distinctive to an individual.

Breath
21600 = number of breaths day and evening (= 24 hours) 10800 = photo voltaic, 10800 = lunar 1 breath = 4 seconds
Time
24 hours x 60 minutes = 1440 minutes
1440 minutes x 60 seconds = 86400 seconds 86400/21600 = four seconds = 1 breath
1 nadika of 24 minutes = 1440 seconds(=360 breaths) 1 photo voltaic 12 months = 360 days = 8640 hours
1 photo voltaic month = 30 days = 720 hours
1 season = 60 days = 1440 hours
1 half-month = 15 days = 360 hours
Indian Measures
It is among the circumstances of a Kalpa (aeon) that in it the planets with their apsides and nodes must unite in 0 levels of Aries -- therefore inside each Kalpa a planet must make a certain variety of revolutions.
One Chaturyuga = 1 kalpa/1000
10 long syllables = 1 Prana (breath = four seconds) 360 Pranas = 1 Nadika (=24 minutes)
60 Nadikas = 1 day
1 Chaturyuga = 4320000 photo voltaic years
A Yuga is divided into four parts:
Krtta Yuga = 1728000 solar years
Treta Yuga = 1296000 solar years
Dvapara Yuga = 864000 solar years
Kali Yuga = 432000 photo voltaic years
Each age has two twilights:
Krita Yuga
Dawn 144000
Day 1440000
Dusk 144000
Treta Yuga
Daybreak 108000
Day 1080000
Dusk 108000
Dvapara Yuga
Daybreak 72000
Day 720000
Dusk 72000
Kali Yuga
Dawn 36000
Day 360000
Dusk 36000

Which means that one solar 12 months = 1 day of the gods
One Kalpa (Aeon) = 1 day of Brahma
One Kalpa = 1 night of Brahma
Brahma's life = 100 years of these days = 864,000,000,000 divine years.

Notice that the 'Kali Yuga', although taken to have an aeonic impact upon people's way of life, is nevertheless a fiction used for astrological computation: Firstly of the Kali epoch (seventeenth Feb 3102 BC) the imply places of the 7 planets are assumed to be initially of the sidereal sphere at zero levels Aries. By calculating from this epoch the imply positions of Sun, Moon and planets are obtained. The proof seems to indicate that the start of the epoch was determined retrospectively, i.e. based mostly on a later epoch and labored backwards to a time when Solar, Moon and planets were in 0 degrees Aries.