Namaste,
I'm really bad at understanding the Vedic calendar, so I try to search on google info. Obviously I don't know, if someone post this already & if it's in wrong forum, so let me know...
As you know Mayan calendar ends December 21, 2010, Also Kali yuga (Sanskrit yuga = age/epoch) in Vedic calendar ends the same day.
Here I quote from about.com Hinduism section:
We live in the Kali Yuga — in a world infested with impurities and vices. People possessing genial virtues are diminishing day by day. Floods and famine, war and crime, deceit and duplicity characterize this age. But, say the scriptures, final emancipation is possible only in this age.
This is actually very accurate, I read this. Quoting part, which made me feel really weird...
But since the men of the Kali Age are full of greed, lust, gluttony, they will on that account neglect sadhana and will fall into sin, and having drunk much wine for the sake of the pleasure of the senses, will become mad with intoxication, and bereft of all notion of right and wrong (61). Some will violate the wives of others, others will become rogues, and some, in the indiscriminating rage of lust, will go (whoever she be) with any woman (62). Over eating and drinking will disease many and deprive them of strength and sense. Disordered by madness, they will meet death, falling into lakes, pits, or in impenetrable forests, or from hills or house-tops (63-64). While some will be as mute as corpses, others will be for ever on the chatter, and yet others will quarrel with their kinsmen and elders. They will be evil-doers, cruel, and the destroyers of Dharma (65-66). I fear, O Lord! that even that which Thou hast ordained for the good of men will through them turn out for evil (67). O Lord of the World! who will practise Yoga or Nyasa, who will sing the hymns and draw the Yantra and make Purashcharana? (68). Under the influences of the Kali Age man will of his nature become indeed wicked and bound to all manner of sin (69). (M.t. 1.61-69)
Next, since Mayan calendar ends, people think this is gonna be end of the world. But I was really surprised to read in about.com Hinduism section (direct link here) this:
What Happens Next?
It is predicted that at the end of the Kali Yuga, Lord Shiva shall destroy the universe and all the physical body would undergo a great transformation. After such dissolution, Lord Brahma would recreate the universe and mankind will become the 'Beings of Truth' once again.
I feel really strange & I would really be much happier to know that I misuderstood something than to know that 2 ancient cultures predict the end... I would really like your opinion on this.
Have a nice day,
~Alice
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