MYSTERY - Four pillars

 

Kedareshwar Cave

Kedareshwar Cave Temple is located at Harishchandragad, a hill fort in Ahmednagar district. The fort is a popular trekking location. Kedareshwar Cave Temple is much different from other temples. It is situated in a cave and also presence of water all year round makes the temple one of the unique temples not just in Maharashtra but in India as well.

The Harishchandreshwar temple, there is the huge cave of Kedareshwar in which there is a big Shiva Linga, which is completely surrounded by water. Its height from the base is five feet, and the water is waist-deep. It is quite difficult to reach the Shiva Linga because the water is ice-cold. There are sculptures carved out here. In the monsoon it is not possible to reach this cave, as a huge stream flows across the way. And there is a huge rock above the Shiva Linga. There were four pillars built around the Shiva Linga. No one really knows the history about these pillars, but it is said that the pillars were built to depict the four 'Yugas' of Life - 'Satya Yuga', 'Tretha Yuga', 'Dwapara Yuga' and 'Kali Yuga'. When a Yuga comes to the end of its time, one of the pillars is said to break down. Three of the pillars have already broken down. The general belief is that the current phase is the 'Kali Yuga' and the day the fourth pillar breaks down - it will be looked to as the last day of the current era.
Another interesting thing about this place is that water seeps into this temple from the four walls on an everyday basis. And owing to the water being very cold, it's difficult to reach inside too. The water continues to seep in during all the seasons in the year, except during rainy season and surprisingly, it is also said that there is absolutely no water there during rainy seasons alone.

According to hindu scripture, satya yuga is one of four main ages, along with treta yuga, when Jupiter, Sun, and the Moon entered the pushya nakashatra. The main character connected with Satya yuga is Lord Vishnu, either as Matsya or a combination of kurma (the fish and tortoise avatar).

Treta means a collection  of three things in sanskrit, and that is called because of the treta yuga, there were three Avatars of Vishnu that were seen the fifth, sixth and seventh incarnations as Vamana, parashurama and Rama.

Dwapara Yuga is the third Yuga, or world age, in a cyclic age that lasts for 4,320,000 years. The Dwapara Yuga is also known as the "bronze Age" and is said to have lasted 864,000 years.

In kaliyug human values and morality are said to steadily decrease, and people become more materialistic and greedy. lord vishnu will be take the last avatar on the earth that named with kalki avatar is predicated with appear on a white horse on the day pralaya to end the kali yuga.