kali yugam
It’s only right that the first blog post is about one of my favorite topics: the Kali Yugam. We are currently in the Kali Yugam and scripture has aptly “predicted” all that occurs in this yugam.
“There will be continued drought and people will suffer from famine on the one hand and from payment of taxes on the other.
Every day their mind will be agitated with the anxiety as to how food may be procured. They will abandon old friendships and quarrel with one another, and will even kill their relations.
They will not follow the achara (right conduct) that has come down from their ancestors, and will not be ashamed at doing so…”
We see this everyday - rulers are concerned only with procuring more funds for themselves, spirituality has declined immeasurably to the point where it is taboo to talk about it in certain spaces, everyone is anxious and angry, and consistently having access to basic needs is considered a priviledge.
But I don’t need to prove to you why we are in the Kali Yugam, rather would like to spend this time thinking about how we can heal through it. Previously, I stated that scripture has aptly “predicted” all that occurs in this yugam. The reason I have it in quotes is because we have been through this before. According to scripture, each yugam cycle (Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali) has happened before. We have to take it back to the origin of time to discuss but let’s keep it simple.
Brahma lives for 100 years. We also have a manu that arrives during the Satya yugam. We have had 7 of them. Each Manu is different, and each cycle slightly varies but we can pretty much think that in every Satya yugam, we have Matsya, Kurma, Varaha, Narisimha. In every Treta yugam, Lord Rama arrives. In every Dvapara yugam, Sri Krishna along with the Mahabaratha and Bhagavad Gita is delivered and in every Kali yugam, we anxiously wait for Kalki. This has happened before and will continue to happen. In a later blog post, we’ll talk about samsara and how we can escape this cycle.
““The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology”.”
I am so passionate about this topic that I made a documentary and magazine on the topic. Check it out below:
The Indian Standard presents Volume 4 Issue 3 with Winter Solstice: a documentary surrounding the concept of Destruction. Join Saiarchana Darira, Rushil Vishwanathan, Neha Dharmapuram and Priya Mukherjee as they discuss their personal journeys, the chaos in the world, and how to navigate the Kali Yugam
See the full story on The Indian Standard
"The foregoing picture of the Kali age is dark indeed. Yet there is a light in it. What one attains by meditation in the Krita age, by making offerings to Him in the Treta and by His service in the Dwapara, one attains by repeating His names in Kali".
