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%:%:% THE KALIYUG %:%:% (Was: Re: The Cosmology of the Rig Veda)
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:: KALIYUG (PRESENT KALI AGE) PREDICTIONS IN ANCIENT TEXTS ::
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All kings occupying the Earth in the Kaliyug will be wanting in
tranquility, strong in anger, taking pleasure at all times in
lying and dishonesty, inflicting death on women, children and
cows, prone to take the paltry possessions of others, with
character that is mostly Tamas, rising to power and soon falling.
They will be short-lived, ambitious, of little virtue and greedy.
People will follow the customs of others and be adulterated with
them; peculiar, undisciplined barbarians will be vigorously
supported by the rulers. Because they go on living with
perversion, they will be ruined. The destruction of the world
will occur because of the departure from virtue and profit,
little by little, day by day. Money alone will confer nobility.
Power will be the sole definition of virtue. Pleasure will be the
only reason for marriage. Lust will be the only reason for
womanhood. Falsehood will win out in disputes. Being dry of water
will be the only definition of land. The sacred thread alone will
distinguish Brahmins. Praiseworthiness will be measured by
accumulated wealth. Wearing the Linga will be sufficient cause
for religious retreat. Impropriety will be considered good
conduct, and only feebleness will be the reason for unemployment.
Boldness and arrogance will become equivalent to scholarship.
Only those without wealth will show honesty. Just a bath will
amount to purification, and charity will be the only virtue.
Abduction will be marriage. Simply to be well- dressed will
signify propriety. And any water hard to reach will be deemed a
pilgrimage site. The pretense of greatness will be the proof of
it, and powerful men with many severe faults will rule over all
the classes on earth. Oppressed by their excessively greedy
rulers, people will hide in valleys between mountains where they
will gather honey, vegetables, roots, fruits, flowers and so
forth. Suffering from cold, wind, heat and rain, they will put on
clothes made of tree-bark and leaves. And no one will live as
long as twenty-three years. Thus in the Kaliyug, humankind will
be utterly destroyed.
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:: Based on a translation of the Vishnu Puran(a) ::
:: by Cornelia Dimmitt and J.A.B.van Buitenen in ::
:: Classical Hindu Mythology, Temple University Press ::
:: Philadelphia, 1978, ISBN 0-87722-117-0 ::
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