Quote (inkanddagger @ Sep 25 2018 10:24pm)
But he is wrong. We are in Kali Yuga and there are almost half a million years left... ~1,000 divine years
It is unfortunate that on this cycle the akarmic and demonic have taken nearly complete power only 5,000 years in. There is so much time left though... imagine 400,000 years of human chattel slavery made possible by technological advantage developed in a short 50 years.
The consensus of some scholars today is that the truth of the Yugas and the Vedas was lost during the Kali Yuga at about the time the library of Alexandria was burned. As a result we have absurd numbers of years like 400,000 years for the length of the Dark Age, aka Kali Yuga, which are held on to today out of mostly nostalgia.
People like Sri Yukteswar spent his life trying to revive the Hindu classics after Britain "de-Sanskritized" Indian society during colonization. Sri Yukteswar's calculations for the Yugas match our human history much better too. The end of Kali Yuga would have been the same time as the European enlightenment. According to him, the cycle of the Yugas represents one MahaYuga and that in turn represents the time it takes for the earth's axis to complete one full rotation (about 24,000) years.
Life now is much better than it was 1,000 years ago which is my biggest argument for it currently being Dwapara Yuga. There is also evidence for ancient societies having a higher standard of living than during the dark ages as well, running sewers, laws, etc.
Forgive me for posting a Chevacheur graphic...
