As far as
we, the followers of Vedic civilization, are concerned, we accept the Vedic
history of the whole universe, which consists of different planetary systems
called Svargalokas, or the higher planetary system, Martyalokas, or the
intermediary planetary system, and Patalalokas, or the lower planetary system.
The modern historians of this earth cannot supply historical evidences of
events that occurred before 5,000 years ago, and the anthropologists say that
40,000 years ago Homo sapiens had not appeared on this planet because
evolution had not reached that point. But the Vedic histories,
the Puranas and Mahabharata, relate human histories which
extend millions and billions of years into the past.
For example,
from these literature we are given the histories of Krishna’s appearances and disappearances millions and billions of years ago. In the Fourth Chapter of
the Bhagavad-gita Krishna tells Arjuna that both He and Arjuna had
had many births before and that He (Krishna) could remember all of them and
that Arjuna could not. This illustrates the difference between the knowledge of
Krishna and that of Arjuna. Arjuna might have been a very great warrior, a
well-cultured member of the Kuru dynasty, but after all, he was an ordinary
human being, whereas Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the
possessor of unlimited knowledge. Because He possesses unlimited knowledge,
Krishna has a memory that is boundless.
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