Ancient Time Travelers of Hindu Mythology- The Ancient 4 Tales

 

Time Travel, "the concept of moving backward or forward to different points in time, in a manner analogous to moving through space". According to Hinduism, time is like a helix, it moves circularly and in one direction, that means major incidents have to happen to like incarnation of Vishnu, but otherwise nothing will repeat. Their were four ancient tales and personalities that actually observe Time traveling. [Ancient Time Travelers of Hindu Mythology] 

Let's take a closer look about these Time Travelers and their incidents in our Hindu Mythology, that brings a concept of time dilation during ancient time.

*Illustration of "Time" as per Shrimad Bhagvat Gita.

As we heard that the Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta has the answer to every questions you have. But when we wanted to know about time travel then we got a shlok off Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta as- 

Sahastra-Yug-Paryantam-Ahar-Yad-Brahmano-Viduh [B.G- 8.17]

That means, one day of Brahma is equal 1000 Mahayuga, according to this one day of Brahma is equal to 4 trillion 32 billion years of the earth. It refers that Brahma lives in some dimension where gravity is more than our imagination i.e. the time passes slowly in that particular place. So the above context refers that differ Yugs have different time period.

*The Ancient 4 Tales.

• Kakbhushundi- time traveller that saw Ramayana 11 times and Mahabharata 16 times. 

Kakbhushundi [sanskrit- काकभुशुंडि] is one of the character of Ramcharitmanas. The word 'Kak' means Crow and it is associated with the name because the sage in his final incarnation was transformed into a crow by sage Lomas and finally he decided to spend his life in the form of crow.

As per the texts, for his great devotion, Lord Rama has blessed him with eternal life and limitless vision. He has the ability to choose the physical form as per his wish and he has been gifted to stand outside of time, that's why he was able to see Ramayana played out 11 times and Mahabharata 16 times with different results. 

• Tale of King Kakudmi and his daughter Revati.

The story tells that, in Satyug, King Kakudmi takes his daughter Revati to Brahma-loka to ask Lord Brahma to find a suitable match for his daughter. When he reached the court, there was some celebration going on , the King and his daughter wait for sometime. At the end, when Brahma noticed them, he asked the king for the reason for his visit and said, "Do you know how much time has elapsed during your travel and time spent in court? Thousands of years have passed, hindered of generations have already ruled the earth and his Kingdom".

He said, "27 Chaturyugas have elapsed and there is only one suitable groom on the earth (Dwapar Yuga) who will marry your daughter, he will be Balarama, brother of Lord Krishna". When the king arrived to Earth, he realizes they are giants in front of everyone. 

• Tale of Commander Muchukunda.

Once in the war between Gods and Demons Lord Indra took help of a human King Muchukunda. King Muchukunda helps God in the war but the war lasted for one year and it was in heaven. After the war was over, when the king express desire to go back to the earth to meet his family, Indra tell him that one year in heaven is equal to 360 years on earth and his family and kingdom must have been destroyed by now with the passage of time. 

He then ask for a boon from Brahma, to sleep in deep slumber in a cave and whoever shall wake him will burn to death. Now the fascinating turn is that, during Dwapar Yuga, Lord Krishna uses this boon to kill a demon Kalayavan, and bless Muchukunda out of his misery.

• Tale of King Manu.

King Manu was one of a great devotee of Lord Vishnu during the Sat Yug. One day while roaming in the city, he found that people are even asking money in the name of god. He was very trouble by this and decided to renounce his Kingdom and find the way to get humanity. Living in forest, one day he found a small talking fish who was seeking his help. He lifted it up and put it in a jar of water to save it, but to his utmost stone astonishment it started to grow in size and it grew so bigger that it needed sea for itself.

King Manu try to take it to the sea and face a lot of troubles. Finally he could save it to the first to the sea and Lord Vishnu appeared before him in his Matsya Avatar. He was very pleased with Manu and order him to build a boat in which we could take the mankind to enlightenment. All the relatives and people were died. Lord Vishnu took Manu, his wife and animals on the boat. Lord Shiva who is the destroyer finish the earth but these were saved to continue the life on earth. Thus King Manu was the time traveler who came from one place to another and continue life on earth, it was the end of Sat Yug and begin the Treta Yug.

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