KALI YUGA: The Age of Quarrel and Conflict
Cosmic Convergence Research Group
Posted on May 24, 2023 by State of the Nation
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The Darkest and Densest of the Four Ages

As a general overview, there is usually common acceptance about the existence of four major ages, which always begins with the Golden Age. Known as Satya Yuga in India, satya means truth or truthfulness. Hence, the Satya Yuga, or Golden Age, is one in which truthfulness predominates across the land.

When truth and justice are so predominant in every sphere of life, the world lives in peace and harmony, brotherhood and prosperity. Virtually every culture and civilization across the planet, down through history, speaks of a time when there existed a Golden Age. And so it was … until it was time for the transition into a less ‘perfect’ age.

The age following the Satya Yuga is known as the Treta Yuga, also known as the Silver Age. There is known to be a perceptible deterioration in the quality of life between these two ages, just as there is between all of the different ages. The Treta Yuga is in turn followed by the Dvapara Yuga, which is also known as the Copper Age. Just as each precious metal becomes less pure and refined, the names of these yugas conversely reflect the degradation of civilization as they inexorably unfold upon the earth plane.

The Kali Yuga: When War Becomes Commonplace

This brings us to the last of the four ages known as the Kali Yuga. Also called the Iron Age because of the pervasive use of steel and other products made of iron, the Kali Yuga is well known for the marriage of war and “iron weapons” of war. By the introduction of weapons made of steel into every theatre of war has the entire planetary landscape and seascape been irreparably transformed. Consequently, we see the rapid deterioration of the global environment unique to this Kali Yuga, especially wherever wars are waged, conflicts are fought and skirmishes occur every day.

The definitions of Kali are many and multi-layered. Kali, depending on the context, can mean quarrel, conflict, strife, discord or contention. Therefore, these attributes have come to represent a defining way of life throughout the Kali Yuga. As testimony (glaring), the headlines of virtually every newspaper or news website clearly illustrates this unfortunate, but quite inevitable, fact of life. The very fabric of society, after all, has been woven in such a way so as to ensure that war and strife would come to dominate the entire age. And so it has … as the history books of every nation graphically portray.