Kali Yuga Dharma
Scriptures on Kali Yuga
Brahma Purana (Chapter 212, verse 8), Vishnu Purana (Canto 5, chapter 38, verse 8) and Srimad Bhagavatam (Canto 1, Chapter 18, verse 6) say that Kali Yuga started at the end of Dwapara Yuga when Lord Sri Krishna left the earth for His eternal abode, Vaikunta.
Kali Yuga: the Dark Age
Kali Yuga is the last and worst age of the Chaturyuga (=four yugas), a time of wickedness and oppression, moral degradation, unrighteousness, sinful activities, immorality, widespread wrongness, corruption at all levels, ungodly and unholy conduct, irreligiousness, sacrilegiousness, profanity, blasphemousness, impiety, baseness, and total vileness.
The hoary scriptures have declared that human civilization will spiritually degenerate during this dark age when discord, quarrel, hypocrisy and egocentrism, egomaniacal attitude, narcissism, vanity, conceitedness, false-pride, unaccountable self-importance will reign supreme. Describing this dharmic degeneration symbolically as a bull, the Mahabarath (Canto 3 on Vana Parva) and Srimad Bagavatam (Canto 1, Chapter 16, verse 20) have said that Dharma in Kali Yuga has only one leg.
Obvious Symptoms of Kali Yuga
The Mahabarath has listed the following as some of the symptoms of Kali Yuga:
1. Gurus will no longer be respected by students, who will attempt to defame them. They will disregard their teachings, and will even take to insulting the words and wisdom of their realised masters.
2. People will be consumed with anger, greed, and they would have no qualms about expressinfg them to one another.
3. The enjoyment, expression, or pursuit of physical, especially sexual, pleasure would be considered acceptable
4. Sexual intercourse will be recognised as an important functionary of life and especially marital life.
5. Addiction to alcoholic drinks and drugs would be acceptable.
6. Women will remain unmarried.
In Brahmavaivarta Purana (Chapter 4, verse 129) the Lord declares that there will be relative peace in the first 10,000 years during Kali Yuga, when worshippers of the Lord will still be present, and some form of worship of God and deities will be continued, and when scriptures will be honoured. Of these 10,000 years, however, 5000 have elapsed, leaving but a middling 5000 years during which spiritual practice will go on.
Discourses on Kali Yuga
Swami Sri Velukkudi Krishnan has given exceptional discourses in Tamil on what the effects of Kali Yuga. He has covered the following topics and questions
A) What the Scriptures have said about Kali Yuga
1. What does Vishunu Purana say about the effects of Kali Yuga
2. The effects of Kali Yuga on our life, health, mind.
a. What is happening to our cognitive powers in Kali Yuga?
b. How do we use our intelligence?
c. What causes unhappiness and stress in Kali Yuga?
3. Is Kali Yuga really bad?
4. What is Veda Vyasa's view on the following
a. Kali Yuga
ai. Will women get Mukti?
aii. Women according to the scriptures/
b. Woman
c. Sudras
B) Liberation/Mukti/Samadhi During Kali Yuga
5. How to attain liberation in Kali Yuga?
5a. Significance of Mukti/Moksha/Samadhi/Liberation in Kali Yuga.
5b. What do we need to get Mukti?
5c. Even the disqualified can attain God. How?
6. Who in the Kali Yuga will attain God easily?
7. How to fast on Ekadasi
C) Spiritual Progress in Kali Yuga
8. Spiritual Progress in Kali Yuga compared to the efforts in other Yuga
9. Why mahatmas prefer to be born in Kali Yuga?
10. What is the sadhana recommended for Kali Yuga?
a. Can Raja Yoga (Dyana=meditation) help me to attain Mukti
b. Can Karma Yoga help me to attain Mukti?
c. Can Nyana Yoga help me to attain Mukti?
d. Will that sadhana give me liberation/Mukti?
11. Bhakti, Knowledge, Ethical perfection, etc., won't give us liberation. So, what is the only qualification for getting liberation/Mukti/Salvation?
12. How to worship the Lord in Kali Yuga?
13. Do we really have the intense desire for liberation/Mukti?
14. In Kali Yuga, there is a Sadhana that will give us everything, viz., property, prosperity, fame, name, liberation, freedom from all diseases, freedom from all sins. May I know what that sadhana is?
15. Shouldn't we know the meaning of the mantra that we are chanting?
16. How long should I chant to get rid of all my sins?
17. I don't have the time to chant/ What should I do?
18. Do we really need liberation?
a. Are we sincere about coming by Mukti?
19. What should our attitude be towards spiritual people?
D) Effects of Kali Yuga
20. I have been told that Kali Yuga lasts for 430,000 years, and only 5000 years have elapsed. As it is, it already appears abysmally bad. How worse can it get in the remaining Kali Yuga ?
21. What are the symptoms of Kali Yuga
E) Our Conduct in Kali Yuga
22. How to conduct ourselves towards animals and plants.
F) YouTube and Internet
23. What do you think of the spiritual advice that we get from YouTube?
24. Religious Conversion.
G) Religions and Spiritual Practice
25. Presence of many religions: which one contains the Truth?
26. Is Hinduism complex and complicated?
27. Can we worship Muneeswaran, Muniandy, Mathurai veeran and Kula-Deivam
H) Other Topics in His Discourses
28. Pilgrimage during Kali Yuga
29. Why do we have so many paths in Hindu religion?
30. How do we make sense of the archaryas' philosophies: Sankaracharya, Ramanujacharya and Madvacharya, Vallapacharya
31. Are archaryas Brahmins?
32. The symbolism of bull to explain Dharma in the four yugas.
33. Attitude towards Tapas like fasting.
34. Why is there a disparity between what the body loves and what the soul yearns for?
35. Donation according to chapter 17 of the Gita.
36. Chapter 14 of the Gita.
37. How to live in Kali Yuga?
Brahma Purana (Chapter 212, verse 8), Vishnu Purana (Canto 5, chapter 38, verse 8) and Srimad Bhagavatam (Canto 1, Chapter 18, verse 6) say that Kali Yuga started at the end of Dwapara Yuga when Lord Sri Krishna left the earth for His eternal abode, Vaikunta.
Kali Yuga: the Dark Age
Kali Yuga is the last and worst age of the Chaturyuga (=four yugas), a time of wickedness and oppression, moral degradation, unrighteousness, sinful activities, immorality, widespread wrongness, corruption at all levels, ungodly and unholy conduct, irreligiousness, sacrilegiousness, profanity, blasphemousness, impiety, baseness, and total vileness.
Obvious Symptoms of Kali Yuga
The Mahabarath has listed the following as some of the symptoms of Kali Yuga:
1. Gurus will no longer be respected by students, who will attempt to defame them. They will disregard their teachings, and will even take to insulting the words and wisdom of their realised masters.
2. People will be consumed with anger, greed, and they would have no qualms about expressinfg them to one another.
3. The enjoyment, expression, or pursuit of physical, especially sexual, pleasure would be considered acceptable
4. Sexual intercourse will be recognised as an important functionary of life and especially marital life.
5. Addiction to alcoholic drinks and drugs would be acceptable.
6. Women will remain unmarried.
In Brahmavaivarta Purana (Chapter 4, verse 129) the Lord declares that there will be relative peace in the first 10,000 years during Kali Yuga, when worshippers of the Lord will still be present, and some form of worship of God and deities will be continued, and when scriptures will be honoured. Of these 10,000 years, however, 5000 have elapsed, leaving but a middling 5000 years during which spiritual practice will go on.
Swami Sri Velukkudi Krishnan has given exceptional discourses in Tamil on what the effects of Kali Yuga. He has covered the following topics and questions
1. What does Vishunu Purana say about the effects of Kali Yuga
2. The effects of Kali Yuga on our life, health, mind.
a. What is happening to our cognitive powers in Kali Yuga?
b. How do we use our intelligence?
c. What causes unhappiness and stress in Kali Yuga?
3. Is Kali Yuga really bad?
4. What is Veda Vyasa's view on the following
a. Kali Yuga
ai. Will women get Mukti?
aii. Women according to the scriptures/
b. Woman
c. Sudras
B) Liberation/Mukti/Samadhi During Kali Yuga
5. How to attain liberation in Kali Yuga?
5a. Significance of Mukti/Moksha/Samadhi/Liberation in Kali Yuga.
5b. What do we need to get Mukti?
5c. Even the disqualified can attain God. How?
6. Who in the Kali Yuga will attain God easily?
7. How to fast on Ekadasi
C) Spiritual Progress in Kali Yuga
8. Spiritual Progress in Kali Yuga compared to the efforts in other Yuga
9. Why mahatmas prefer to be born in Kali Yuga?
10. What is the sadhana recommended for Kali Yuga?
a. Can Raja Yoga (Dyana=meditation) help me to attain Mukti
b. Can Karma Yoga help me to attain Mukti?
c. Can Nyana Yoga help me to attain Mukti?
d. Will that sadhana give me liberation/Mukti?
11. Bhakti, Knowledge, Ethical perfection, etc., won't give us liberation. So, what is the only qualification for getting liberation/Mukti/Salvation?
12. How to worship the Lord in Kali Yuga?
13. Do we really have the intense desire for liberation/Mukti?
14. In Kali Yuga, there is a Sadhana that will give us everything, viz., property, prosperity, fame, name, liberation, freedom from all diseases, freedom from all sins. May I know what that sadhana is?
15. Shouldn't we know the meaning of the mantra that we are chanting?
16. How long should I chant to get rid of all my sins?
17. I don't have the time to chant/ What should I do?
18. Do we really need liberation?
a. Are we sincere about coming by Mukti?
19. What should our attitude be towards spiritual people?
20. I have been told that Kali Yuga lasts for 430,000 years, and only 5000 years have elapsed. As it is, it already appears abysmally bad. How worse can it get in the remaining Kali Yuga ?
21. What are the symptoms of Kali Yuga
E) Our Conduct in Kali Yuga
22. How to conduct ourselves towards animals and plants.
F) YouTube and Internet
23. What do you think of the spiritual advice that we get from YouTube?
24. Religious Conversion.
G) Religions and Spiritual Practice
25. Presence of many religions: which one contains the Truth?
26. Is Hinduism complex and complicated?
27. Can we worship Muneeswaran, Muniandy, Mathurai veeran and Kula-Deivam
28. Pilgrimage during Kali Yuga
29. Why do we have so many paths in Hindu religion?
30. How do we make sense of the archaryas' philosophies: Sankaracharya, Ramanujacharya and Madvacharya, Vallapacharya
31. Are archaryas Brahmins?
32. The symbolism of bull to explain Dharma in the four yugas.
33. Attitude towards Tapas like fasting.
34. Why is there a disparity between what the body loves and what the soul yearns for?
35. Donation according to chapter 17 of the Gita.
36. Chapter 14 of the Gita.
37. How to live in Kali Yuga?
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