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    Kali yuga

    Namaste,
    What stage of the 4 stages is the kali yuga? What can I expect the Earth to be like after the stage is over and which stage is next? Because I'm expecting the earth to change from it like the ice ages.


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    Re: Kali yuga

    Namaste Jigar,

    Quote Originally Posted by Jigar View Post
    What stage of the 4 stages is the kali yuga? What can I expect the Earth to be like after the stage is over and which stage is next? Because I'm expecting the earth to change from it like the ice ages.
    As you've seen from our discussion in another thread, the traditional model (this is the only one I'll mention here) says we are in the kaliyuga since the year 3102 BCE, and this age lasts a total of 432000 years. The kali yuga is the last of the four yugas in the mahayuga cycle. It is also called the iron age or age of discord when dharma declines, and adharma rules.

    The mahayuga cycle goes as follows:

    satya yuga - 1728000 years
    treta yuga - 1296000 years
    dvapara yuga - 864000 years
    kali yuga - 432000 years

    After the kaliyuga is finished, another satya yuga begins. The idea is that dharma and spirituality are at the highest in the satya yuga, and lowest in the kali yuga. In other words, dharma waxes and wanes through the yuga cycles.

    As for the second part of your question, I'm not sure what you can expect of the earth once this age is over. From a geological perspective, ice ages come and go every 100000 years or so. And also don't forget, we are overdue for a shift in the magnetic poles .

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    Namaste Jigar,

    Quote Originally Posted by Jigar View Post
    What stage of the 4 stages is the kali yuga? What can I expect the Earth to be like after the stage is over and which stage is next? Because I'm expecting the earth to change from it like the ice ages.
    According to Theosophy, as the Yugas roll by, the Earth will shrink and become a satellite, just as the Moon was once a full-fledged planet and became a satellite!

    For more details, check: http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/sho...18&postcount=3

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    Quote Originally Posted by saidevo View Post

    According to Theosophy, as the Yugas roll by, the Earth will shrink and become a satellite, just as the Moon was once a full-fledged For more details, check:
    Namaste saidevo,
    Can you adivse on any books, shastra, agama's I may take a look-see?

    Regards and pranams,
    Last edited by yajvan; 28 March 2007 at 07:38 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by saidevo View Post
    Namaste Jigar,



    According to Theosophy, as the Yugas roll by, the Earth will shrink and become a satellite, just as the Moon was once a full-fledged planet and became a satellite!

    For more details, check: http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/sho...18&postcount=3

    Namaste,
    I find that theosophy ludicris. It needs supporting evidence.

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    Jigar

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    Namaste Yajvan.

    Quote Originally Posted by yajvan
    Can you adivse on any books, shastra, agama's I may take a look-see?
    Most Hindus and many others believe that there was a universal faith akin to Sanatana Dharma (may be SD itself) that was prevalent in the world before the advent of the Western religions. And then there were the Atlantean, Lemurian and other pre-historic civilizations that perished over time. These ancient cultures and 'civis' had their own technology in their daily walks of life that matched, if not excelled the modern technology. For example, the Atlanteans are believed to have harnessed nuclear power for transport and knew ways of generating that power without its radiational hazards. Plato talks about this civilization. Where did he obtain that knowledge?

    Theosophy seeks to find and re-establish the roots of all faiths, so man can know his true history and culture and unite in a White Brotherhood. I am interested in knowing about and reading the Hindu Scriptures that have details on the parts of the world beyond Bharat Varsha of those times. The growing agression of Christianity and Islam seeks to destroy such universal truths and bring humanity inside an iron curtain. If humanity is to thwart their schemes, it needs to look beyond its religions (however universal they may be), find the roots that united the world in faith and culture and seek to re-establish them.

    I have read some of the works of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater. While they are elaborate in the holistic world view of the hereafter offered by Theosophy based on Brahminism (the philosophy of Brahman) and Buddhism, they don't speak much about the roots. There is one author, H.P. Blavatsky, the founder of the Theosophical movement, who gives elaborate details of these roots in her works. I have started reading her work The Secret Doctrine. It is rich in details even within the first fifty pages of its introduction. I would recommend this work for you, so you may read it, compare it with Hindu Scriptures you are well-versed with, and highlight the correspondences and contradictions. And then if you are interested in a quickie on Theosophy, read these wonderful compilations by Arthur E. Powell: 1. The Solar System 2. The Etheric Body 3. The Mental Body 4. The Causal Body (I have read the first three of them).

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    Namaste,

    Quote Originally Posted by saidevo View Post
    if you are interested in a quickie on Theosophy, read these wonderful compilations by Arthur E. Powell: 1. The Solar System 2. The Etheric Body 3. The Mental Body 4. The Causal Body (I have read the first three of them).


    I read a few review about each book. Although it is referenced as inaccurate it seems to be of a very interesting read indeed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jigar View Post
    Namaste,
    I read a few review about each book. Although it is referenced as inaccurate it seems to be of a very interesting read indeed.
    Jigar
    Arthur E. Powell's compilations can be read/downloaded at:
    http://www.theosophical.ca/OnLineDocs.htm

    and HPB's books at: http://www.theosophy.org/index.html and many other Theosophical Websites.

    For the books of Annie Besant and Leadbeater, check:
    http://www.anandgholap.net/index.html

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    Vishnu Purana states that Earth will become desolate and desert-like at the very end of this Kali Yuga.
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    Re: Kali yuga

    Hari Om
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    Namaste,

    I am watching the news on Pakistan's former PM Benazir Bhutto's assassination Thursday ( December 27, 2007) by a suicide bomber. The bomber also killed at least 22 of her supporters. CNN is now reporting that a motorcyclist drove to the side of her convoy then blew himself up.

    AS I look around the world I think how can this not be a sign of Kali yuga continuing. I mention this, as on one forum I attended the notion was vehemently argued that we are not in this age kali yuga.

    So, I pinched myself a few times to insure I was not in dream REM state of consciousness and then opened the papers, watched the news, and pondered, again, how can this not be Kali yuga, and what the heck am I doing here? I figured out why I am here, yet I am still aghast that some do not see Kali Yuga blooming.

    Now to the mukti, and his/her balanced vision all this is Brahman, all this is consciousness. To the un-aided eye there is this time that is upon us that is called out in the Mahabharata by Yudhishthira ( Vana Parva, Section CLXXXIX ) we are experiencing now. http://www.hinduism.co.za/kaliyuga.htm


    Do I think we can change the course of time? Yes I do. How so? The infusion of the Divine, Brahman, the SELF, this Bhuma into the good people of this earth.


    May we all contribute to improving this world, starting with ourselves.


    pranams

    1. Kali Yuga timing - a few discussion points: http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1803
    Svami Yukteshvar's calculations for this age: http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14254&postcount=2
    यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
    yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
    because you are identical with śiva

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