The Wes Penre Papers || The Fifth Level of Learning The Vedic Texts
both animals and humans in their honor.31 We should perhaps ask ourselves—if this is so, were these Pleiadian beings, who were able to commit such crimes, really good guys to begin with? Now, back to East India and the Hindu religion. They, too, had their different time cycles, where the longest one was called the Catur-yuga, lasting four million three-hundred thousand years (4,300,000).32 However, if we want to go very deep into how time is measured in the different Veda books, I am sure it would make both me and the readers utterly confused because it differs depending on which scripture we read. Here below we have four time cycles, which correspond quite closely to what is said to be the age of the Earth, so I thought I should at least mention them. In Hinduism, there are four yugas, 1. 2. 3. 4.
Satya Yuga Treta Yuga Dwarapa Yuga Kali Yuga
Catur-yuga then refers to the time encompassed by the passing of four Yugas. It covers approximately 4.32 billion solar years.33 This differs substantially from the 4,300,000 years I mentioned first. The “discrepancies” may not be so strange after all, if we think about it. The time span the Vedas bring up is long, and the way of measuring time must have changed numerous times. The two different ways of measuring that I have mentioned so far are very old, so I will probably not use them very much in my papers—except that we are going to hear the term “Kali Yuga” a few times in future papers. Instead, so we don’t confuse things unnecessarily, I have decided to use time cycles that are being used by the Hindus perhaps most frequently today. The original Yuga Cycle Doctrine was fairly simple—the duration of a Yuga Cycle was 12,000 years, with each Yuga lasting for approximately 3,000 years. This is encoded in the Saptarsi Calendar, which has been used in India for thousands of years, and is still used in many parts of the country. The term “Saptarsi,” interestingly enough, refers to the seven Rishis, mentioned above, or the seven sages, as they were also called. These seven rishis (there were, as I mentioned, more Rishis or Sages, but these seven were considered particularly enlightened) appear at the beginning of each Yuga to spread the laws of civilization to mankind.34 We will hear more about this as well in future papers, and it will get quite interesting. The famous author, Graham Hancock, explains:
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Various Pleiadian lectures, channeled by Barbara Marciniak. Thompson, p. 286 33 http://www.hindupedia.com/en/Catur_yuga 34 http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/DMisraB6.php#edn_13 32
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