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Time · Chapter 3

The Holy Science

Sri Yukteswar’s yuga chronology beside one measured precession cycleYukteswarOther epochsMeasuredDwapara ↓Kali ↓Kali ↑Dwapara ↑Treta ↑Satya ↑one precession cycle, 25,772 years, ending nowMaya Long Count epoch, 3114 BCEKali Yuga epoch, 3102 BCE (Purāṇas)descending Dwapara beginslowest pointascending Dwapara beginsThe Holy Sciencenow3101 BCE701 BCE49916994099769912499calendar year

Only the ascending half of Yukteswar’s 24,000-year cycle fits on this chart, and one measured precession cycle is longer still. The three epochs at the left edge sit thirteen years apart: one inscription, one tradition, and one correction of that tradition.

What if we are already in an ascending age — and the companion star and Vishnunabhi are two claims, not one?

Sri Yukteswar, in 1894, recast the yugas and put 2026 in year 326 of ascending Dwapara. Precession is close in length and different in cause. Later writers often start here.

What he actually claims

In the introduction to The Holy Science, Sri Yukteswar gives the Sun a companion star whose orbit produces a 24,000-year cycle, and a separate greater centre, . He does not name Alcyone or Sirius. Each 12,000-year half-cycle holds Satya 4,800, Treta 3,600, Dwapara 2,400, Kali 1,200, junctions included. The lowest point is about 499 CE. Ascending Dwapara begins about 1699. On his clock, 2026 is year 326 of that age.

What overlaps with measurement

is real and close in length. Its cause is lunar-solar torque on Earth’s bulge, not a stellar companion. NASA’s WISE survey restricts such a companion. The Sūrya Siddhānta’s cycle is 4,320,000 human years and places us in Kali Yuga from 3102 BCE. Yukteswar is rejecting that reading, not reporting it.

The implication others lean on

If awareness falls with distance from Vishnunabhi, an earlier civilisation could have known more than the one that followed. Hancock’s Ice Age survivors and the Binary Research Institute both use that implication. It is an implication of the model. It is not archaeological evidence for a lost civilisation.

The date cluster

The Maya epoch is 3114 BCE. The traditional Kali epoch is 3102 BCE. Yukteswar’s descending Dwapara begins 3101 BCE. The two Indian dates share a source: he is correcting the Kali date. The Maya date is a coincidence. Modern syncretism stacks all three as proof. They are one inscription, one tradition, and one correction of that tradition.

Sources

  1. Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1894 (first book edition 1920)). The Holy Science (Kaivalya Darshanam). Yogoda Satsanga Society of India. yssofindia.org. Full text via www.ananda.ru.
  2. Paramahansa Yogananda (1946). Autobiography of a Yogi (first edition, public domain scan). Philosophical Library, New York; text at Project Gutenberg. www.gutenberg.org.
  3. Bapu Deva Sastri, translator (1861). English translation of the Sūrya Siddhānta, chapter 1 (the yuga durations). Asiatic Society of Bengal; scan at Wikisource. en.wikisource.org.
  4. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. “Nutation and precession.” earth.gsfc.nasa.gov. Accessed 28 October 2026.
  5. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “NASA’s WISE survey finds thousands of new stars, but no “Planet X”.” www.jpl.nasa.gov. Accessed 28 October 2026.
  6. Binary Research Institute. “History and celestial time.” binaryresearchinstitute.org. Accessed 28 October 2026.
  7. Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. “Living Maya Time.” maya.nmai.si.edu. Accessed 28 October 2026.

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