Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8- Akshara Brahma Yoga - Sloka 17

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Brahma, the Creator's Standard of Time 17-19

1 Gita Sloka  every day - Chapter 8 - Akshara Brahma Yoga - Sloka 17

 Birth of Krsna

Sahasra yuga paryantam ahah yat brahmanah viduh I

Ratrim yuga sahasra antam te ahah ratra vidah janah II sloka 17

सहस्र युग पर्यन्तं अहः यत् ब्रह्मणः विदुः I
रात्रिं युग  सहस्र अन्तां  ते अहः रात्र विदः जनाः I I  श्लोक 17

Those who know the day of Brahma lasts a thousand yugas and that his night lasts a thousand yugas, they are the knower of day and night.

The part that time plays in the lives of beings is a factor worth studying. There are creatures within our ken, that complete their career and fulfil themselves in the course of a few days and weeks. The question of want of time does not arise in their  cases.

Brahma the creator is also a jivatman  having cosmic function to fulfil  and wending his way towards mukti.  That purusha who attains prakriti-laya or the universal power and efficiency in a previous kalpa or cycle, becomes Brahma in a succeeding cycle. Countless eons of ours put together form a day to Brahma and a similar expanse of time, his night. That way Brahma has his day and night, his own months and years and his own full span of life. Our understanding staggers in conceiving his life time. It expands into infinity, so to say. Still Brahma, the creator also has his wheel of birth and death and emancipation too from that wheel. He gets into krama-mukti  after his span of life, vacating his place for the succeeding Brahma. Those of us who understand what is meant by the wheel of time, the wheel of birth and death and emancipation from this relativity. This intellectual grasp is an aid for our seeking mukti  from the wheel of birth and death.