From: Raghavendra Rachuri <rrachuri@...>
Subject: [um-vedanta-list] Re: brahma and others are also saMsArins ?
To: um-vedanta-list@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, 2 August, 2008, 5:12 PM

Namaskara Madhusudhanan avare,
Yes, 1 dina kalpa = 1 day of Brahma. Also 1 Maha Kalpa = 100 years
of Brahma. As you have rightly pointed out, simply 100 years of Brahma
do not equate to 100 Brahma Dina Kalpas or 100 Maha Kalpas.

My intention in giving the figure 100 kalpas (Maha Kalpas)is to indicate the time when Brahma devaru would go to Moksha. It is at the end of his 100 years life span i.e the current Maha Kalpa. Incidentally it is also the 100th Maha Kalpa counting from the Maha Kalpa in which aparoksha jnana occurred, ( vide the statement 'yasmin kalpe aparoksha jnAnam jAtaM tadArabhya shata brahmakalpAnantaram bramhatvam bhavati' - Srinivasatirthara Tippani on Shriman Nyaya Sudhaand). This is the final Maha Kalpa after which Brahma devaru goes to liberation.

regards,
R.Rachuri

--- In um-vedanta-list@ yahoogroups. com, "Madhusudhanan Rao"
<rao.madhusudhanan@ ...> wrote:
>
> NamaskAra Sri Raghavendra avare,
>
> I thought 1 kalpa = 1 day of Brahma (consisting of 1000 catur-yugas)
& 365
> such days makes 1 year and 100 such years is the life span of Brahma.
>
> I am asking this because you had mentioned 100years(100kalpas) which
might
> mean both are same.
>
> Also, can you please let us know about a jIvan-mukta (as discussed in
> anuvyAkhyAna) and can we say our present catur-mukha is a jIvan-mukta?
>
> Regards,
> Madhusudhanan
>
> On 8/1/08, Raghavendra Rachuri <rrachuri@.. .> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Yes, the present Brahma is not yet relieved from Samsara. He would go
> > to Moksha after the end of his 100 years(100 Kalpas).
> >
> > --- In um-vedanta-list@ yahoogroups. com
<um-vedanta- list%40yahoogrou ps.com>,
> > shreedar narayanarao
> > <toyesh_sri@ > wrote:
> > >
> > > Namaskara,
> > >
> > > I understand that Moksha(libaration) is relieve from samsara. Then
> > how the statement says Bharma is in Samsara.
> > > If i am wrong please correct.
> > >
> > > "As brahma and others are also saMsArins they are also not
> > completely unaffected by desires." Acharya vani 63.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > N.Shreedar
> > >
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