Time to Grow

I wish everyone a happy New Year’s and I hope that 2018 brings deep inner growth, joy, love, and a greater ability to transform life’s problems into a reason to grow and become a highly conscious human being.

"The answers to life’s difficulties exist within every one of us. It never makes sense to blame the world for our problems, because external pressure and conflict never go away. They’re a great teacher of sorts, a reminder that we have to build strong inner lives to maintain any kind of balance. It’s like the irritation in an oyster that produces a pearl. If we take the time to transform tension and insecurity into love and joy and become thankful for life’s indiscretions that remind us to do some kind of inner work…we become that pearl. There’s nothing nobler than one’s ability to transform confusion into spiritual awareness, to learn to forgive trespasses as they occur every day..." ~ Stuart Perrin

From the Hindu perspective:

"The Supreme Maha Vishnu – the omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient, creator, protector, destroyer, giver of knowledge, ignorance, bondage and liberation creates Chaturmukha Brahma from his Navel. He then creates the universe manifesting Himself in the four-faced Brahma. The life of a universe is linked to the life span of the Chaturmukha Brahma.

The life span of Brahma is 100 cosmic years (Caturmukha brahmaNaH paramAyurvarShashataM). This quantum is denoted as Para.

1 cosmic year = 360 cosmic days.
1 cosmic day = 28 Manvantaras (14 Manvantaras = day, 14 manvantaras = night).
1 Manvantara = 71 Mahayuga.
1 Mahayuga = 4 Yugas (43 lakh 20 thousand human years)
4 yugas = Krita, Treta, Dvapara, Kali.
Krita Yuga = 17 lakh 28 Thousand human years 17,28,000.
Treta yuga = 12 lakh 96 Thousand human years = 12,96,000.
Dvapara yuga = 8 lakh 64 thousand human years = 8,64,000.
Kaliyuga = 4 lakh 32 thousand human years = 4,32,000

Out of the 100 years of Brahma time 50 years have already elapsed. We are now in
the 51st year of Brahma, first month, first day (kalpa by name Shvetavarahakalpa)."