Srila Vyasadeva: The Eternal Sage and His Divine Role in Cosmic Time

Srila Vyasadeva is one of the rishis and an incarnation of Godhead, I’m not sure if he lives for the entire duration of Brahma’s life or just for one day of Brahma, in any case Vyasa has got one mega life-span.

It was Vyasadeva who gave Sanjaya the vision to see everything that took place on the battlefield of Kurukshetra so that he could relay it to the blind king, Dhritarashtra. That’s why it is said that the rishis know the past, present and future.

Thus it is no problem for Vyasadeva to write about events that run over many human generations. What happens during thousands of our solar years - for Vyasadeva, since his life span is so enormous, it is a daily occurrence.

Krishna says:

By human calculation, a thousand ages taken together form the duration of Brahma's one day (4,32 billion years). And such also is the duration of his night.

At the beginning of Brahma's day, all living entities become manifest from the unmanifest state, and thereafter, when the night falls, they are merged into the unmanifest again.

Again and again, when Brahma's day arrives, all living entities come into being, and with the arrival of Brahma's night they are helplessly annihilated.

Yet there is another unmanifest nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as it is.

That which the Vedantists describe as unmanifest and infallible, that which is known as the supreme destination, that place from which, having attained it, one never returns—that is My supreme abode