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# Kali Yuga – An Age of Darkness
- URL: https://goodoil.news/kali-yuga-an-age-of-darkness/
- Published: 2022-04-20T02:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-19T18:08:03.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: General, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, Religion, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12

**Thornton Blackmore**

Just as Biblical lore speaks on the concept of the ‘end-times’, so too have other cultures and religions explored similar concepts. Interestingly, the *Vedic* culture of Classical India and the attending *Sanskrit* texts have spoken extensively of an age of darkness known as the *Kali Yuga*.

This *Kali Yuga*, which is said to be an age of quarrel and hypocrisy, is one of four ages that, according to the *Vedas*, repeat in a cyclical pattern again and again for the duration of the cosmic creation – which is itself also subject to manifestation and dissolution like clockwork on the wheel of eternal time.

The four ages are known as the *Satya Yuga*, the *Treta Yuga*, the *Dvapara Yuga* and the *Kali Yuga*.

The four pillars of *dharma* or religion are said by the *Vedas* to be Austerity, Cleanliness, Mercy and Truthfulness. In each successive age, *dharma* or religion is said to be reduced by one quarter, pitching the creation into a steady decline over millions of years, whereupon those souls seeking material pleasures are provided incrementally with the facilities for exploring deeper and darker realms of materialism, along with the concomitant *karma* and the chaos that comes with it.

One’s wealth, strength, beauty and other opulence evaporate accordingly with the decrease in virtue and the reincarnation of the soul along this ever-declining timeline eventually exhausts the soul of material desires and encourages the pursuit of self-realisation.

As such, while the *Satya Yuga* may in some ways be comparable to the Garden of Eden in Biblical terms, the *Kali Yuga* is an age of both suffering and materialism. According to the *Vedas*, we are at present only a few thousand years into the *Kali Yuga*, which lasts some 432,000 solar years before the *Kalki Avatar* is said to restore order and the *Satya Yuga* again recommences.

According to the *Vedas* a 10,000 year miniature *Satya Yuga* may appear within certain cycles of the *Kali Yuga*. Predictions of such a Golden Age have spanned many cultures and even in modernity, parallels have been drawn with the coming Age of Aquarius.

Whatever it may be, there exists today a conflict between the energies of dark and light. And whether one adheres to a Christian, Islamic, Hindu or any other worldview, we must acknowledge that any respite from the miseries of today will only be made possible by our willfully ascending to a higher level of conduct and consciousness.

The final revolution must be a spiritual one in order to be enduring. All other revolutions based upon increasing the facilities for material indulgence only accrue a *karmic* debt that must eventually be settled by way of collective calamities.

The question remains though, whether we as a species are ready for that quantum leap.

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