Kali Yuga: The Age of Darkness The 4 Ages of Man
The cycle of the seasons
cycles within cycles The Cycles of Time
Just like you go through a cycle in one day - sleep, waking, peak energy, wind down, sleep…. or throughout your life Humanity goes through phases and cycles that are in timing with the universal clockwork
The Ancients had a worldview and a view of time that was much more sophisticated than ours - they thought in terms of millenia and scales of time that we find almost unimaginable
Indian Yugas Greek ages Mayans Other??
How do we know we are in Kali Yuga? - LOOK AROUND!
Yogananda’s guru says we are not actually - and maybe he is right? Maybe this is the Kali part of the next best yuga. Perhaps we are on the ascent up, but still close to the bottom.
It seems to me that we are living in a Dark Age, yet this dark night holds the seeds and promise of a New Dawn. And that things can change quickly.
Understanding that we live in an age of spiritual darkness, of materialsim, of insanity and degeneracy - it can help to understand that, to understand that the world you were born into is a fallen one, an insane one That it is not you who is crazy
All things go through a 4 step process (or different number)
Winter - Spring - Summer - Autumn 4 yugas and ages Cardinal - fixed - mutable birth - growth - maturity - flowering - fruits - decay - death - rebirth
And it is not a circle, it is a spiral - going up or down, or both at the same time…
Within each yuga is 4 stages So you could be in the Darkest part of the dark age, or the lightest part of the dark age.
Does the Yuga cycle happen within one’s own soul and consciousness? Born originally into the mud of deep materiality, then slowly spiraling up and out…
(get excerpt from vedas about Kali Yuga) (hermes prophesy from Aesclepius)
Understanding that you were born into Kali Yuga, you have to do your best to do it on your own, and with a small community of soul-family. You have to make do as best you can in a fallen world. Accept that you are a product of this world Evola - ride the tiger Self-initiate
One can thrive and flourish here
We are here to be carriers of the light in this age of darkness and yet promise….