Hare Krishna, dear devotees!! All glories to Srila Prabhupada !
It has been mentioned in the scriptures that after Lord descends as Kalki and slays all atheists, the Golden Age of Satya Yuga will once more begin. My questions are---
1) Will there be only Satya Yuga after this or rest three yugas will follow??
2) Will the same incarnations of Lord like Matsya, Varaha, Nrisimha or Rama come or some other incarnations as it has been mentioned in Bhagavatam that Krishna's incarnations are infinite?? Supposing, in the treta yuga of the next cycle, a different incarnation of Lord descends. Will the people then glorify that particular incarnation instead of Lord Ram who had appeared in this treta yuga ??
3) Will again Vyasdeva rewrite the Vedic scriptures, considering the degraded condition of men in Kali yuga??
4) Will Krishna reveal the secret message of Gita to Arjun or any other of His favourite devotees ?
5) In the Kali yuga of next cycle, will again Lord Kalki appear to punish the atheists ?
5) How long will the cycle of these four yugas continue and when there will be total annihilation when Krishna alone and the spiritual world will exist, not even the demigods?
Your aspiring servant
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.2.24: The 2014 Astronomical Event
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.2.24 states:
यदा चन्द्रश्च सूर्यश्च
तथा तिष्यबृहस्पती ।
एकराशौ समेष्यन्ति
भविष्यति तदा कृतम् ॥ २४ ॥
yadā candraś ca sūryaś ca
tathā tiṣya-bṛhaspatī
eka-rāśau sameṣyanti
bhaviṣyati tadā kṛtam
The verse describes a specific astronomical configuration involving the Sun, Moon and Jupiter, stating that they will enter simultaneously into Tiṣya (Puṣya) in the same sign, Karkaṭa (Cancer). The commonly cited Vedabase rendering explicitly translates sameṣyanti as “will enter simultaneously.”
What happened on 26 July 2014?
On 26 July 2014, a significant astronomical configuration occurred:
- Sun — in sidereal Cancer (Karkaṭa)
- Moon — in sidereal Cancer
- Jupiter (Bṛhaspati) — in sidereal Cancer
- Sun and Moon formed the New Moon conjunction in Cancer.
- The conjunction occurred within Puṣya (Tiṣya).
- Jupiter was also situated within Puṣya.
Contemporary astronomical/astrological data for that date place the Sun and Moon together at approximately 9°48′ Cancer, within Puṣya, while Jupiter was approximately 8°17′ Cancer, also within the same nakṣatra.
Thus the three bodies were not merely in the broad sign of Cancer; they were simultaneously within the Puṣya/Tiṣya sector of Cancer.
“Simultaneous entry” — Yes
This point is especially important.
The Sanskrit word in the verse is:
समेष्यन्ति — sameṣyanti
The translation supplied by Vedabase gives:
«“will enter simultaneously”»
The same rendering appears in the Vanisource text.
Furthermore, a presentation of the verse under the section for Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura explains that Jupiter periodically enters Cancer and that during its stay there, two or three new moons can occur with Jupiter; the distinguishing condition is when all three enter Puṣya simultaneously.
Therefore, the relevant condition is not simply:
Sun + Moon + Jupiter = somewhere in Cancer
but rather:
Sun + Moon + Jupiter → simultaneously in Puṣya/Tiṣya within Cancer.
The 2014 correspondence
For the 26 July 2014 event, the astronomical configuration therefore corresponds closely to the three principal elements specified in ŚB 12.2.24:
1. Sun — Cancer ✓
2. Moon — Cancer ✓
3. Jupiter — Cancer ✓
4. Sun + Moon — Puṣya ✓
5. Jupiter — Puṣya ✓
6. All three simultaneously within Puṣya — ✓
The Sanskrit and the standard translation therefore provide a precise basis for describing the event as a 2014 astronomical correspondence to the configuration described in Text 24.
An important distinction
This astronomical correspondence should not automatically be stated as proof that Satya-yuga began in 2014.
The verse itself connects the astronomical condition with the beginning of Kṛta/Satya-yuga, and the commonly cited translation says that this occurs “at that exact moment.”
However, establishing whether a historical astronomical occurrence constitutes the scriptural event described by the verse requires additional questions concerning the traditional chronology, calendrical system, sidereal calculation, and interpretation of the verse.
So the careful historical statement is:
«On 26 July 2014, the Sun, Moon and Jupiter were simultaneously positioned in Cancer and within the Puṣya/Tiṣya region, matching the astronomical configuration described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.2.24. The verse uses sameṣyanti, which standard Vedabase translations render as “will enter simultaneously.”»
That is the strongest factual formulation without making an additional claim beyond the astronomical evidence.
-Duration, characteristics and order of yugas are constant for every cycles.
-The Lord past times in every cycles of catur yugas are different, but principles are the same.
-The universe is cyclically created and destroyed in the timespan of 311.04 trillion years, one life time of Sri Brahma.
Hare krishna Dandwat Pranam PAMHO AGTSP,
Currently 7th manu is going on,with 18th (Divya)Yuga Cycle.