This is the Kali Yuga, The Dark Age

. . . Hindu cosmology. According to Vedic reckoning we are now in Kali Yuga, an unspiritual age of ignorance, sin, and short lifespans.

The other three ages are: Satya Yuga (Age of Wisdom and Truth), the Treta Yuga (Silver Age), and the Dwapara Yuga (Copper Age). Each has ascending and descending segments. Wiki contributors:

Kali Yuga (Devanāgarī: कलियुग [kəli juɡə], lit. "age of (the male demon) Kali", or "age of vice") is the last of the four stages that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas described in the Indian scriptures. The other ages are Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga and Dvapara Yuga. According to the Surya Siddhanta, an astronomical treatise that forms the basis of all Hindu and Buddhist calendars, Kali Yuga began at midnight (00:00) on 18 February 3102 BCE ^[1] in the proleptic Julian calendar, or 23 January 3102 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. This date is also considered by many Hindus to be the day that Krishna left earth to return to his abode. Most interpreters of Hindu scriptures believe that earth is currently in Kali Yuga. Some, such as Swami Sri Yukteswar,^[2] and Paramhansa Yogananda^[3] believe that it is now near the beginning of Dvapara Yuga. The Kali Yuga is traditionally thought to last 432,000 years.

Hindus believe that human civilization degenerates spiritually during the Kali Yuga,^[4] which is referred to as the Dark Age because in it people are as far removed as possible from God. Hinduism often symbolically represents morality (dharma) as a bull. In Satya Yuga, the first stage of development, the bull has four legs, but in each age morality is reduced by one quarter. By the age of Kali, morality is reduced to only a quarter of that of the golden age, so that the bull of Dharma has only one leg.^[5]^[6]

Kali Yuga is associated with the apocalyptic demon Kali, not to be confused with the goddess Kālī (read as Kaalee) (these are unrelated words in the Sanskrit language). The "Kali" of Kali Yuga means "strife, discord, quarrel, or contention."

According to the traditional yuga reckoning, only 5 thousand years (approximately) of the descending Kali Yuga are now passed, with approximately 427,000 years still to go. In other words, there's still a long way to go...DOWN.The yogi saint Sri Yukteswar called this "a dark prospect" (yes, it is). But he stated that this is an error; that a 430,000 year-long Kali Yuga was a mistake. He stated that the Kali Yuga only lasts 2,400 years. More Wiki contributors:

Sri Yukteswar Giri maintains that we have already rounded the nadir of the Kali Yuga, and are already climbing the ascending cycle of the Dwapara Yuga (Copper Age). According to him, the astronomers and astrologers who calculated the almanacs were guided by the false annotations of certain Sanskrit scholars such as Kullu Bhatta. As a result, they falsely maintained that the length of Kali Yuga is 432,000 years, of which 4994 would have elapsed as of 1894, leaving 427,006 years remaining. Yukteswar Giri declares this "A dark prospect! And fortunately one not true." He himself offers an astronomical explanation for a shorter cycle in which Kali Yuga lasts only 2,400 years (1,200 x 2 = one descending Kali Yuga cycle + one ascending cycle).

By Yukteswar's reckoning the Dwapara yuga (Copper Age) started in 1699 AD; that as of 2010 we are 310 years into the Ascending Dwapara Yuga.

A scholarly analysis by John Major-Jenkins states that some of Yukteswar's corrections were valid, but that Yukteswar himself made new errors. Yet Major-Jenkins' reckoning, which places us just at the nadir of the Kali Yuga now, is also cause for optimism. According to him, the nadir (bottom) of the Kali Yuga is occurring right in this time, in the year 2012. Then we will be turning the corner back up into the ascending phase (see link below). After the shipwrecks and wars -- the momentum of forces of this degenerate age -- finally play out, the ascending Kali Yuga should bring a gradual rising out of social decay and chaos. This more optimistic reckoning happens to correlate with many prophecies of major world change pegged to the year 2012. Links to seven informative sites are provided below.

From "Kali Yuga, Rites of Passage and Modern Science" by Octavian Sarbatoare

The Mahanirvana Tantra extensively describes particularities of the Kali Age . . . as presented by Lord Shiva Himself to his wife Parvati.

"O Sovereign Mistress of Kaula doctrine! When the Heavenly Stream (i.e. the Ganges river) is at some places broken and at others diverted from its course, then know that the Kali Age has become strong. ... When women become difficult of control, heartless and quarrelsome, and calumniators of their husbands, then know that the Kali Age has become strong. When men become subject to women and slaves of lust, oppressors of their friends and Teachers, then know that the Kali Age has become strong. When the fertility of the earth has gone and yields a poor harvest, when the clouds yield scanty rain, and trees give poor fruit, then know that the Kali Age has become strong. When brothers, kinsmen, and companions, prompted by the desire to obtain things of small value, will strike one another, then know that the Kali Age has become strong. When the open partaking of flesh and liquor will pass without condemnation and punishment, when the secret drinking will prevail, then know that the Kali Age has become strong." (Avalon, 1972, p. 52; Ch. IV, 49-55).

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