Four Yugas and Kali Yuga - (2760)

Introduction

I recommend if a person has time to read into the topic of the yugas. 

It gives one a very helpful and clear picture of the development that human beings on the Earth have passed through and the current state in which humanity is now in. It gives a verification and validation of what we are currently seeing in humanity right now.

It also introduces us to the words: Kalki-Avatar, Buddha-Matreya and shows us their meaning. we have probably come across these words in our studies and reading but may not have gained a fuller appreciation of their origin and depth of meaning.

Four Yugas

They are the following:

1. - Krita-Yuga (the “age of joy,” or spiritual innocence of man)

2. - Treta-Yuga (the period of supremacy of man and of giants and of the sons of God)

3. - Dvāpara-yuga (a mixture already of purity and impurity (spirit and matter), the age of doubt)

4. - Kali-Yuga (darkness, misery and sorrow)

It was taught by Blavatsky that we are currently in the Kali-Yuga. Some other Hindu philosophers say that we are moving into the Dvapara Yuga. Master Samael says though that we are currently in the Kali-Yuga.

Kali Yuga

Due to being out of time for the day here is an excerpt describing how the Kali Yuga will be. As you read it how astoundingly accurate it is.

"[There will be] contemporary monarchs, reigning over the earth — kings of churlish spirit, violent temper, and ever addicted to falsehood and wickedness. They will inflict death on women, children, and cows; they will seize upon the property of their subjects, and be intent upon the wives of others; they will be of limited power . . . their lives will be short, their desires insatiable. . . . People of various countries intermingling with them will follow their example; and the barbarians being powerful [in India] in the patronage of the princes, whilst pur er tribes are neglected, the people will perish [or, as the Commentator has it, “the Mlechchhas 2 will be in the centre and the Āryans, in the end.”]3 Wealth and piety will decrease day by day, until the world will be wholly depraved. The property alone will confer rank; wealth will be the only source of devotion; pas sion will be the sole bond of union between the sexes; falsehood will be the only means of success in litigation; and women will be objects merely of sensual gratification. . . . External types will be the only distinctions of the several orders of life; dishonesty (anyāya) will be the (universal) means of subsistence; weak ness the cause of dependence; menace and presumption will be substituted for learning; liberality will be devotion (a man if rich will be reputed pure) . . . mu tual assent will be marriage; fine clothes will be dignity. . . . he who is the strongest will reign . . . the people, unable to bear the heavy burthens, Kara bhāra (load of taxes) . . . will take refuge among the valleys. . . . Thus, in the Kali age, shall decay constantly proceed, until the human race approaches its annihilation (pralaya). . . . When . . . the close of the Kali age shall be nigh, a portion of that divine being which exists, of its own spiritual nature . . . shall descend on Earth . . . as Kalki [Avatāra], endowed with the eight superhuman faculties. . . . He will, then, re-establish righteousness upon earth; and the minds of those who live at the end of Kali age shall be awakened, and shall be as pellucid as crystal. The men who are, thus, changed . . . shall be as the seeds of human beings, and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the Krita age (or age of purity). As it is said: “When the sun and moon, and the Krita [or Satya] age shall return.”1"

More to come tomorrow...

End (2760).