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 TIME. Though we think very little about time, yet the flight of time is bringing all things to an end. Our Earth, the Sun, the Moon, all the stars, and the planets must, in the course of countless years, come to an end. As hundreds of millions of years have rolled away since Creation began, and as it is impossible for a human being to say when it began, the Hindu Sastras say there is no beginning of creation. According to Hindu Chronology the present year is the five thousand and fifth year of Kali Yuga, the fourth and last Yuga.

Krita Yuga is said to have lasted one million seven hundred and twenty-eight thousand years; the second, Treta Yuga, one million two hundred and ninety-six thousand years; the third, Dwapara Yuga, eight hundred and sixty-four thousand