Current Events Prophesized in the Vedas

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The Iron Age or Age of Kali

 

By Drew Lawrence

"People will give in charity and help the dispossessed but their

main purpose will be to win the recognition of society."

"The yield of milk from cows will decrease and people's ability to

digest this perfect food will diminish."

 

Just as various places on our planet go through four seasons, our

universe goes through four eras or ages as well. And the Age of Kali

is the frozen winter of the soul. But it is also the time which can

usher in a refocusing

toward enlightenment if we can overcome its selfish and destructive

tendencies. In universal calculation, we are now caught in the

snares of Kali, or the Iron Age.

 

The four ages are the Golden Age, or Satya-yuga; the Silver Age or

Treta-yuga; the Bronze Age or Dwapara-yuga, and the Iron Age or Kali-

yuga. The Golden Age lasts for 1,728,000 years. The Silver Age

extends for 1,296,000 years. The Bronze Age continues for 864,000

years and the

darkness of the Iron Age or Kali descends upon us for 432,000 years.

In our universe, one brief period of four seasons or ages extends

for 4,320,000 years. There are many such cycles. It is truly

something to ponder.

 

In the Golden Age, humans live for 100,000 years. In the Silver Age,

it is 10,000 years. In the Bronze Age, the life span is 1,000 years

and in the Iron Age, the life expectancy is reduced to 120 years.

Only 5,000 years of

this age of darkness have passed and most of us are not even close

to living 100 years, what to speak of 120 years. How much will this

human life span diminish as the remaining 427,000 years of the Iron

Age wear us down?

 

One of the symptoms of this dark age is parents killing their own

children - in the womb or outside of the womb. The great sages,

Markandeya and Vyasadeva, had predicted thousands of years before

what would take place

among a degenerated populace during the Iron Age. Under the heavy

hand of Kali, truth will be decimated by dishonesty and duplicity.

Humans will become gluttonous, lustful and poverty-stricken. People

will give in charity and help the dispossessed but their main

purpose will be to win the recognition of society.

 

Evolved souls will find themselves trapped in menial tasks far

beneath their refined nature. Those possessed with innate wisdom

will set it aside and get caught up in the business of profit and

loss. Gripped by the greed of Kali,

merchants will sell their souls to cheat their customers, even for

the most trifling gain. Ladies of the manor will lie with their

servants, wives will become prostitutes, and women will become bold,

confrontational and lacking

in chastity. Many will sell their vaginas and sexual favors. Women

will have more children than they can properly care for and men will

no longer protect their children, their deserving wives or their

elderly parents.

 

Men will become effeminate and controlled by women. Relationships

will be made and broken solely revolving around sex. Corrupt

individuals bent on self-aggrandizement will hold the posts of kings

and officials. Men will develop hatred for each other or sever

friendships over a few coins. They will sacrifice their own lives

and even kill their relatives out of greed and economic desperation.

 

Young men will age prematurely due to stresses and pressures from

all quarters and old men will continue to practice the habits of

young men, having totally lost touch with the value of the aging

process which, in effect, is the saging process.

 

Celibate priests will forsake their vows and so-called spiritual

renunciates will figure out ways to accumulate wealth. Those who

know nothing about religion will become recognized as religious

authorities. People who become petty, self-absorbed and miserable

will ignore the existence of a Supreme Being and thus the need to

perform religious practices and become avowed atheists.

 

Men who behave like beasts, leaving darkness and destruction in

their wake, will be on the increase. Murder will be found skulking

around corners everywhere. People will be in a constant state of

agitation and stress and

be plagued by fears. The populace will become emaciated either by

famine or taxation. Large numbers of people will die of hunger and

starvation.

 

Righteous persons will compromise their principles and swindlers

will be on the rise. Girls of seven or eight will become pregnant

and boys will become fathers. The yield of milk from cows will

decrease and people's ability to

digest this perfect food will diminish. The abundance of fruits and

flowers will decline. Crows and such birds of ill omen will be on

the increase. Rains and weather patterns will become unusual and out

of season. Trees and

plants will refuse to grow in many places, and these places will

become known as deserts. And what is even more wondrous is that

people will actually choose to live in such areas. In the Iron Age,

objects, places and

even individual personalities will become polluted. These then, are

the symptoms of our current epoch, the Iron Age.

 

Since the marking of time is always determined by cycles within

cycles, such as hours subdivided by minutes and minutes subdivided

by seconds, it is a fortunate thing indeed that we are going into a

minor cycle of the Golden

Age within the major cycle of this merciless Iron Age of Kali. It

doesn't necessarily mean then, that the symptoms of Kali will abate,

but that there will be a rise in consciousness, which will have a

beneficial, and uplifting

effect on the planet and the people who willingly participate in

this spiritual rebirth. That is what is taking place at this time.

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