KALPA

A day of Brahma. 4,320,000,000 years long, divided unequally into 4 ages. Satya Yuga was the first age (Golden Age).

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Kalpa (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root klrip to be in order)

A generalizing term for a period or cycle of time.

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Kalpa (Sanskrit). The period of a mundane revolution, generally a cycle of time, but usually, it represents a "day" and "night" of Brahma, a period of 4,320,000,000 years.

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KALPA: a period of 432,00,00,000 years

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Kalpa: A Day of Brahma-4,320,000,000 years. It alternates with a Night of Brahma of the same length. In the Day of Brahma creation is manifest and in the Night of Brahma is it resolved into its causal state.

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Asamkhiya (kalpa)

Term related to the Buddhist metaphysics of time. Each of the periodic manifestations and dissolutions of universes which go on eternally has four parts, called asamkhiya kalpas.

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Padma Kalpa (Sanskrit). The name of the last Kalpa or the preceding Manvantara, which was a year of Brahma.

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Samvartta Kalpa (Sanskrit). The Kalpa or period of destruction, the same as Pralaya. Every root-race and sub-race is subject to such Kalpas of destruction; the fifth root-race having sixty-four such

Cataclysms periodically; namely: fifty-six by fire, seven by water, and one small Kalpa by winds or cyclones.

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Maha Kalpa (Sanskrit). The "great age".

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Kalpa Vedanga: (Sanskrit) "Procedural or ceremonial Veda-limb."

Also known as the Kalpa Sutras- a body of three groups of auxiliary Vedic texts:

1)    the Shrauta Sutras and Shulba Sutras, on public Vedic rites (yajna),

2)    the Grihya Sutras (or Shastras), on domestic rites and social custom, and

3)    the Dharma Shastras (or Sutras), on religious law. There are numerous sets of Kalpa Sutras, composed by various rishis. Each set is associated with one of the four Vedas.

See: Dharma Shastra, Grihya Sutras, Shulba Shastras, Shrauta Sutras, Vedangas.

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Padma-kalpa (Sanskrit) The lotus age; the last kalpa or preceding manvantara which lasted a Year of Brahma.

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kalpa-vriksha:

kalpa-vriksha. Wish-fulfilling tree.

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vi-kalpa:

vi-kalpa. Negativity, indecisiveness.

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Ratnavabhasa Kalpa (Sanskrit). The age in which all sexual difference will have ceased to exist, and birth will take place in the Anupadaka mode, as in the second and third Root-races. Esoteric philosophy teaches that it will take place at the end of the sixth and during the seventh and last Root-race in this Round.

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Bhadra-kalpa (Sanskrit) (from bhadra auspicious, blessed + kalpa age)

The time period of the sages; the present age, said exoterically to last 236 million years, so called because 1,000 buddhas or sages appear in the course of it. "The Bhadra Kalpa, or the 'period of stability,' is the name of our present Round, esoterically -- its duration applying, of course, only to our globe (D), the '1,000' Buddhas being thus in reality limited to but forty-nine in all" (TG 55-6).

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Ratnavabhasa-kalpa (Sanskrit) [from ratna jewel + avabhasa splendor + kalpa age]

The age that shall be as of the splendor of jewels -- used in Buddhism for the closing kalpa or age of mankind on this fourth globe during the fourth round. "The age in which all sexual difference will have ceased to exist, and birth will take place in the Anupadaka mode, as in the second and third Root-races.

Esoteric philosophy teaches that it will take place at the end of the sixth and during the seventh and last Root-race in this Round" (TG 276). Differentiation into two sexes is but a passing phase of human and animal evolution. It was preceded by hermaphroditism and other forms of reproduction. The very end of the fifth and the early sixth root-race will see the beginning of the ceasing of sex and the introduction of the anupapadaka or parentless mode.

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urine therapy (amaroli, auto-urine-therapy, shivambu kalpa, uropathy): Subject of The Water of Life (1937), by English urine therapist John W. Armstrong, The Golden Fountain: The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy (Scottsdale, Ariz.: TriMedica Inc., 1996), by Coen van der Kroon, and many other books.

Urine therapy refers to any method for maintaining or improving health characterized by the external or internal application of an individual's urine to that individual. Forms of urine therapy include applying urine to the skin (e.g., by massage or clay packs), ingesting it, injecting it (e.g., urine enemas), and snuffing it. Some proponents describe human urine as a divine nectar, a nectar of immortality, or a God-given panacea.

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Ganadevas (Sanskrit)A certain class of celestial Beings who are said to inhabit Maharloka. They are the rulers of our Kalpa (Cycle) and therefore termed Kalpadhikarins, or Lord of the Kalpas. They last only "One Day" of Brahma.

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Samvarta (Sanskrit) A minor kalpa. {SD 1:368, 2:307n}

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Samvarta (Sanskrit). A minor Kalpa. A period in creation after which a partial annihilation of the world occurs.

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Grihya Sutras: (Sanskrit) "Household maxims or codes." An important division of classical smriti literature, designating rules and customs for domestic life, including rites of passage and other home ceremonies, which are widely followed to this day.

The Grihya Sutras (or Shastras) are part of the Kalpa Sutras, "procedural maxims" (or Kalpa Vedanga), which also include the Shrauta and Shulba Shastras, on public Vedic rites, and the Dharma Shastras (or Sutras), on domestic-social law. Among the best known Grihya Sutras are Ashvalayana's Grihya Sutras attached to the Rig Veda, Gobhila's Sutras of the Sama Veda, and the Sutras of Paraskara and Baudhayana of the Yajur Veda.

See: Kalpa Vedanga, Vedanga.

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