Exploring Time in Hinduism

Hinduism has the most mind-blowing concept of time that make Western Science look boring … here’s the tea!

We start with the paramanu or truti, the smallest periods of time, even smaller than a second. And one day in our lives is called a tithi. 15 Tithis make a fornight called paksha & those turn into masas, eventually a varsha.

Now when you take 4,32,000 years together, you call it a Yuga, called the Kali Yuga, where we are right now.

There are 3 yugas or phases of time along with Kali, namely Dwapara, Treta & Satya yuga - these are mutiples of the Kali Yuga,

In total 4 yugas make a Chatur Yuga, which is 43,20,000 years.

71 such mahayugas make up a Manvantra, which is ruled by one guy called a Manu who’s the first being of that particular era.

You have 14 such Manvantras making up a Kalpa which is just one day or one night in the life of Bhrama, who’s the architect of this universe.

When you take a year’s worth of such Bhrama Kalpas together, you get 100 Bhrama years, which is the lifespan of a Bhrama.

It doesn’t end there - one Bhrama is equal to tbe breath of a Maha Vishnu & when he exhales exhales, he gives birth to countless multiverses & then they get destroyed with his next breath as well - this is called the Maha Kalpa, which is the lifespan of the universe - 311.040 trillion years.

So basically, time in Hindusim is eternal & cyclical, not linear. Often this time dimension is called Mahakala or we know it as Shiv because he governs time.