Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Hindu chron., a day of Brahma, a period of 4,320,000,000 years, equivalent to a thousand great ages (mahāyuga); an eon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Hind. Myth.) One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated.
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Examples
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According to the tradition, just below the heart center there is something called the kalpa vriksha or "wishing tree."
Rod Stryker: 7 Steps to Fulfilling Your Destiny Rod Stryker 2011
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According to the tradition, just below the heart center there is something called the kalpa vriksha or "wishing tree."
Rod Stryker: 7 Steps to Fulfilling Your Destiny Rod Stryker 2011
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According to the tradition, just below the heart center there is something called the kalpa vriksha or "wishing tree."
Rod Stryker: 7 Steps to Fulfilling Your Destiny Rod Stryker 2011
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According to the tradition, just below the heart center there is something called the kalpa vriksha or "wishing tree."
Rod Stryker: 7 Steps to Fulfilling Your Destiny Rod Stryker 2011
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The real 'kalpa', which now stands in the garden of the god Indra in the first heaven, was one of the fourteen varieties found at the churning of the ocean by the gods and demons.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822
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In a search conducted over many weeks, spanning many states, and enquiries made from many retired personnel, the agency was able to trace the manuscript from the house of a microbiologist the CIA had many years ago hired for analysis of the "charged" kalpa vigraha water.
Startling CIA findings on Longevity & Hindu Spiriualism: Sure to Make you feel Thrilled Paulina 2009
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CIA's kalpa vigraha cell's job was, and still continues to be, to report back if a recipient of the charged water (wherever he or she was in the world) was alive.
Startling CIA findings on Longevity & Hindu Spiriualism: Sure to Make you feel Thrilled Paulina 2009
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The manuscript mentioned the name of the idol - "kalpa maha-ayusham rasayana vigraha" abbreviated in CIA files to "Kalpa Vigraha."
Startling CIA findings on Longevity & Hindu Spiriualism: Sure to Make you feel Thrilled Paulina 2009
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The CIA had been keeping a meticulous watch ( "kalpa-tag", they called it) over almost all test-subjects around the globe, and monitoring their lives in secrecy.
Startling CIA findings on Longevity & Hindu Spiriualism: Sure to Make you feel Thrilled Paulina 2009
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Because they are the circumstances "prior to the kalpa of emptiness", they are this life of the present; because they are the self "before the germination of any subtle sign", they are liberated in their actual occurrence.
Speedlinking 9/18/07 William Harryman 2007
adoarns commented on the word kalpa
An exceptionally-long (but varying) period of time in Hindu and Buddhist thought.
The best explanation ever:
Every 100 years, a bird flies over the summit of Mount Sumeru and, in so doing, brushes the pinnacle with a red silk scarf held in its beak. A kalpa is the period of time it takes to wear the mountain down to nothing by this activity.
February 6, 2008
treeseed commented on the word kalpa
Wow...that is so wonderful. Thank you for sharing that.
February 6, 2008
seanahan commented on the word kalpa
Eastern thought certainly is a lot different than Western.
February 6, 2008
yarb commented on the word kalpa
"I had no longer that feeling of unutterable loneliness; but felt, rather, that I was less alone, than I had been for kalpas of years."
- William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland
June 28, 2011