Raja Yoga Chapter 3

Satyug (1st yug/era) :

It is also known as "Suryavanshi yug". This yug is created by the blessings of God. In this era, the quality of spirits was very good. Lord Shri Krishna (Lord Vishnu's avatar in human form) is the first person to be born in this era. He had one soul but different names like Govind, murari and so on. There is no sun set in Satyug. During the life of Shri Krishna, he is born for the 8 times and hence we celebrate festival called as "Ashtami" during the navratri festival. Lord Krishna is born as Lord Ram in his 9th birth and hence we celebrate the festival "Shri Ram navami". After Satyug, treta yug comes and it is also known as "Chandravamshi Yug". These two eras - Satyug and Tretayug were very good and pure.

Dwapar Yug means : Dwa= Two par= maad. Instead of 16 good qualities of each soul, in this era, the spirit only has 8 qualities left. That means half of the part of the soul is lost and only half is retained. There is entry of bad qualities and bad karam (bad deeds) in human beings in this yug.

God sent lot of his messengers to distribute the knowledge of God to every human being. Firstly, God sent the messenger Ibrahim and he preached a lot of people God's message and people listened to him until he was alive. After his soul left the body, all his preachings were published in the holy book "Quran". After that there were no changes in their lives. It took around 2500 years for this entire process. Later, God sent the messenger Gautam Buddha when people started killing animals and eating meat. Many people followed the teachings and preachings of Gautam Buddha but later after he died, his preachings were just caught in the book and human beings forgot about it and left practicing.

Jesus Christ , another messenger of God came now and he established Christianity . The problem started when people started treating these messengers of God as God and later did divisions into religions and created fights among themselves based on religions, discrimination,etc but this is not what God was trying to teach his children through these messengers.

How was the Bible written?

There was a king who ordered Christ that he should stop preaching and if he does not agree to this, then he will be hanged to death on the cross. Actually Christ and his two disciples used to listen to Lord Krishna's preachings in India during their visit and stay in India and they wanted to pass on the same knowledge and preachings in their country as well. But they did not know how to pronounce Krishna in English and they were able to utter Krish and hence the terms "Christ" and "Christian" were coined. They started preaching the same things that are written in hinduism holy book "Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta" in their country and that is how the holy book bible was derived after Christ's death. There was some miracle that happened after the death of Jesus Christ that made the king believe in his preachings and he asked to publish all the preachings in holy book Bible. Basically, the teachings in both the holy books "Shrimad Bhagvat Geeta" and "Holy Bible" are the same.

Since the "Dwapar Yug" only , temples were being constructed so that the human beings can see the good qualities of God and try to introduce those good qualities in their lives. Later, the nature was created (5 types) and people started praying Lord Shiva. Then came the time when people started praying saints, sages (in hindi: mahatmas, dharmatmas) as God.

Kaliyug: In this era, the souls of human beings became black or impure ("kaali" is a hindi word that means black). The qualities of soul of people are of worst quality in this era. The qualities of the soul and the body are "Tamopradhan". Even prayers are of the worst quality and are tamopradhaan. The innovation and purification of our soul is done by the creator of this universe Lord Brahma. Lord Brahma imparts very good qualities in our impure souls of Kaliyug and leads us to the path where we go to the Satyug with pure soul. The full form of the word GOD is "Generator, Operator and Destroyer" where the Generator is Lord Brahma, Operator of this universe is Lord Vishnu and the Destroyer is Lord Shiva.

The people of Kaliyug are more body conscious and they forgot about the souls. They should become soul conscious instead of thinking about the body every time. It is said that Lord Vishnu will arrive in the avatar of "Kalki" in either Uttarakhand or Uttar pradesh states of northern India in "sangam yug". Currently we are in the "Sangam yug" where the God is working on purification of souls and imparting good values and karma and removing our 5 bad values/vikaar that were imparted to humans because of Raavan so that he can lead us to the path of "Satyug" where we are ready to be born in that pure era again. Below is the picture depicting the current Kaliyug stage of "Sangam Yug".