TIME (classification)

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here's yet another post...
According to Jainism or Jina Dharma, we classify time (kaal) into 2 parts:
1. avsarpani kaal, and
2. utsarpani kaal

So, what happens is:

This world is beginning-less and endless, that is, it has no beginning and will have no end, more interesting posts on this topic will soon be coming

The 'avsarpani' and 'utsarpani' kaal alternate each other. So what are these are avsarpani and utsarpani?

So allow me to show you the detailed classification of time into what we call as 'aare':

1. Sukhad-sukhad (or Sukhma-sukhma) : This is the best. Noone has no worry, never. Everyone who is born in this time is happy, and why not we have the "kalpavriksha" and the "kamadhenu", who fulfill all wishes of all. (Yes! they are a reality)

2. Sukhad (or Sukhma): This is the second best. Almost similar to the first; everyone is happy here too, though not as much as 1st

3. Sukhad-dukhad (or Sukhma-dukhma): You get the sequence, don't you? So this comes next

4. Dukhad-sukhad (or Dukhma-sukhma): This is next

5. Dukhad (or Dukhma): No need to repeat same thing again and again. Here noone is happy, everyone has some worry or the other

6. Dukhad-dukhad (or Dukhma-dukhma): Worst; earth is burning, humans live beneath the earth, get out only at night and eat only non-veg. Vegetation disappears.

NOTE: the 'tirthankaras' only exist in 3rd and 4th aaras

So you might be wondering at present, which aara is going on?

Well, it is the 5th (Dukhad), this imply everyone has some worry or the other. Ask yourself, reader does no worry or anxiety trouble you; if your answer is 'NO', think again, for it is not possible.

And the time moves as follows:

So, the the avsarpani kaal is this:

And the utsarpani kaal is this:

So you get the drift;

when time moves, it moves alternately as avsarpani-utsarpani-avsarpani-utsarpani----

Since the universe is beginning-less, noone can say which was the first 'avsarpani' or the 'utsarpani', not even the tirthankaras

uh! I fight off an urge to disclose more, which I do not wish to pursue at this time.

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