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Canto 3

The supreme poet Pingala (Shiva) descended in the world to manifest a new creation with the sound of Anushthupa and to begin a new human cycle – (Kalpa) consisting of the Satya Yug (golden age), Trita Yug (silver age), Dwita Yug (bronze age) and Kali Yug (iron age), in the above order. At the end of the Iron Age, the Golden Age again commences. This is the constant turning of the time wheel.

The poet - Pingala Maheshwara - appeared, wearing a mass of matted hair, to save the humanity from the bondage of animalism.  With a deep voice, he spoke to Kashyapa the creator of gods, who observed him with astonished eyes.

Pingala said - This is the place, o great creator, where I have decided where the Epic should manifest. With it will also manifest a new creation.  Please behold and grant your power and light of tapasya (meditation) to your devotee who lives here so that he may increase his ability to bear the immense force of the stream of the flow of this Epic.

I have decided to manifest the Epic through this young person, who is very simple in nature and does not consider himself an intellectual, who has faith on gods, and who always has an aspiration for the Vedic knowledge. He is the medium through which the verses of the epic Devayan will be penned.                               

Saying this, he roared in the rhythm of the Anushthupa metre. Hearing the thundering voice of the Supreme Poet, the three worlds trembled and the vast Epic manifested.

The Supreme poet said to the Creator Kashyapa - Behold 0 Supreme Creator! the divine Epic, Devayan, which manifests the truth, is appearing surrounded with a beautiful light.

Look! the wheel of time is turning - holding the secret meaning and manifestation of gods by unfolding the divine activity.

With the creation passing through the four ages, the divine intellect was shadowed by darkness. Now, the divine intellect brightens up each day with the memory of that great encircling movement and all the creations, returns.

From the Golden Age, as the universe is proceeding towards the Iron Age, look 0 Creator!  look how all the creations have changed with the passage of time. Now, once again one can see how the whole creation is turning towards the Golden age from the Iron Age.

I name this new Epic – Devayan as it moves one Golden Age to the next Golden Age unfolding all the secrets of the creation 0 God of all Gods, this Epic is the result of your efforts to manifest the golden age, the divine life, a supramental race upon the earth.  Hence, this epic is so significant to mankind.

This Epic is divided in twelve parts, each part having a thousand pages - containing innumerable shlokas (by four feet in two lines) in just one part of this vast Epic.  Whatever has occurred in the four aeons, the entire manifestation is recorded here in the order that it occurred.  The Devayan can be seen in the sky of eternity. See!

In it, you see the four Vedas flanking its four sides.  You see the Rigveda in the east, Yajurveda in the west, Samaveda in the north, and Atharvaveda in the south.

0 great Creator, in the dark sky ornamented by innumerable stars and planets, the brightest are the Sun and Moon. There you can also see the Devayan as a bright star. In the divine blaze of light, see the sun dynasty, with the life and glory of the divine incarnation Rama (Vishnu), in the epic Ramayana.

Janarddana (Vishnu) in a human form descended as Sri Rama in the sun dynasty as the famous warrior with his incomparable and unconquerable power and became uniquely victorious in the three worlds by overpowering the demonic forces.

On the other side, shining like the moon, from the moon dynasty you can observe the glory and life of divine Krishna in the Mahabharata.  Descended from Janarddana [Vishnu] as Krishna, he is famous for his activity through his incomparable intellect and knowledge.  There are also thousands of other glorious godlike characters each glowing with divine power and knowledge.

Additionally, there are many other godlike characters described in the epic who lead pure lives.  They are manifested in the Epic just like stars in the sky in this epic book of twelve thousand pages.

Devayan, in the Anushthupa metre, sounds as if the musical rhythms are coming straight from the beautiful Gandaharva world in a low, deep and hard sound. Within this, now and then, some other metre is heard – just as the sound of lightning comes all of a sudden in the middle of the thundering of the clouds.

As we see the day and night pass – we see also the four ages passing and having the same movement in Devayan.

The golden age is radiant like the day, where the Sun God and the Divine Mother with her children manifest.  The Iron Age is like a night, with Kali influencing the demonic forces.

In between, the time is divided into two parts. Trita is like the evening dusk and Dwita like the second part of the night.  Then comes the end of the deep dark night with a beautiful description of the approaching divine dawn to awaken the consciousness of the people and the world. Then the Truth Sun manifests.

O Divine Creator of all, see with your own eyes the Epic Devayan manifest in the powerful and beautiful metre of the Anushthupa giving us all a beautiful vision. Seeing its descent, the divine poet Pingala was happy and the divine creator Kashyapa calmly saw without a movement of his eyelids.

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