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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.15 — September 20, 1972, Los Angeles 720920SB-LOS ANGELES [41:36 Minutes] SB-01.03.15_720920SB-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: [leads singing of Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. Hare Krsna.
Devotees: All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda, Ācāryadeva. [obeisances] [break] Pradyumna: ...bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.
Canto One, Chapter 3, text 15. [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] rūpaṁ sa jagṛhe mātsyaṁ cākṣuṣodadhi-samplave nāvy āropya mahī-mayyām apād vaivasvataṁ manum [SB 1.3.15] Prabhupāda: Ladies, ladies. [ladies chant] So, word meaning. Pradyumna: [leads chanting of synonyms] rūpam—form; saḥ—He; jagṛhe—accepted; mātsyam—of a fish; cākṣuṣa—Cākṣuṣa; udadhi—water; samplave—inundation; nāvi—on the boat; āropya—keeping on; mahī—the earth; mayyām—drowned in; apāt—protected; vaivasvatam—Vaivasvata; manum—Manu, the father of man.
[11:56] Translation: "When there was a complete inundation after the period of the Cākṣuṣa Manu and the whole world was deep within water, the Lord accepted the form of a fish and protected Vaivasvata Manu, keeping him up on a boat." Prabhupāda: Hmm. So here is history also. This Vedic history is not that for one thousand years or two thousand years. No, not like that.
One period. One millennium, Brahmā's one day, it is millions and millions of years. So just like there is night after day, day after night, similarly, the Brahmā's day, Brahmā's night, that is calculated. And one Brahmā's day, you know, that is described in the Bhagavad-gītā: sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ [Bg. 8.17]. So Brahmā's one day means one thousand times of the yugas.
The yugas means the Satya-yuga, Kali-yuga and..., Tretā-yuga, Dvāpara-yuga and Kali-yuga. So Satya-yuga's duration is about 1800,000's of years. The next, Tretā-yuga, duration about 1200,000's of years. And then Dvāpara-yuga, 800,000's of years, solar years. We are calculating the years, the time also relative.
That is the latest theory of the scientist, law of relativity. My hundred years and Brahmā's hundred years and an ant's hundred years, a germ's hundred years, they are not the same. Similarly time calculation, if you go in the upper planetary system, that time calculation is different. Just like in modern age, the sputnik age, they are flying sputnik.