Kaliyuga, the age of darkness, the age of immorality, the age of quarrels, corruption,
famine, disasters, and sufferings.
The age most people lose their spiritual abilities, mental clarity, and understanding.
An age characterized by hypocrisy, degradation, and an overall rise in vice.
kaliyuga, is the last and worst of the four great ages.
The other 3 being, Satya-yuga, Treta-yuga, Dwapara-yuga.
It is a period of time lasting 432,000 years and according to the hindu texts, we're now
living in the Kali-yuga that began around five thousand years ago.
It is an evil age, influenced by the demon Kali and not the goddess Kali.
Let me repeat that again, Kali yuga is an age infleuenced by the demon Kali , and not
the goddess Kali.
As the Srimad Bhagavatam reads, When Lord Krishna left this world, and returned to the
spiritual sky, Kali entered this world, and people then began to take pleasure in sinful
activities.
Thus, religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical
strength and memory will all diminish day by day, because of the powerful influence
of the age of Kali.
In Kali-yuga, wealth alone will be considered the sign of a man’s good birth, proper behavior
and fine qualities.
And law and justice will be applied only on the basis of one’s power.
Men and women will live together merely because of superficial attraction, and success in
business will depend on deceit.
Womanliness and manliness will be judged according to one’s expertise in sex, and a man will
be known as a brahmana just by his wearing a thread.
A person’s spiritual position will be ascertained merely according to external symbols, and
on that same basis people will change from one spiritual order to the next.
A person’s propriety will be seriously questioned if he does not earn a good living.
And one who is very clever at juggling words will be considered a learned scholar.
A person will be judged unholy if he does not have money, and hypocrisy will be accepted
as virtue.
Marriage will be arranged simply by verbal agreement, and a person will think he is fit
to appear in public if he has merely taken a bath.
A sacred place will be taken to consist of no more than a reservoir of water located
at a distance, and beauty will be thought to depend on one’s hairstyle.
Filling the belly will become the goal of life, and one who is audacious will be accepted
as truthful.
He who can maintain a family will be regarded as an expert man, and the principles of religion
will be observed only for the sake of reputation.
As the earth thus becomes crowded with a corrupt population, whoever among any of the social
classes shows himself to be the strongest will gain political power.
Losing their wives and properties to such avaricious and merciless rulers, who will
behave no better than ordinary thieves, the citizens will flee to the mountains and forests.
Harassed by famine and excessive taxes, people will resort to eating leaves, roots, flesh,
wild honey, fruits, flowers and seeds.
Struck by drought, they will become completely ruined.
The citizens will suffer greatly from cold, wind, heat, rain and snow.
They will be further tormented by quarrels, hunger, thirst, disease and severe anxiety.
The maximum duration of life for human beings in Kali-yuga will become seventy years.
By the time the age of Kali ends, the bodies of all creatures will be greatly reduced in
size, and so-called religion will be mostly atheistic.
The kings will mostly be thieves, the occupations of men will be stealing, lying and needless
violence, and all the social classes will be reduced to the lowest level of sudras.
Cows will be like goats, spiritual hermitages will be no different from mundane houses,
and family ties will extend no further than the immediate bonds of marriage.
Most plants and herbs will be tiny, and all trees will appear like dwarf sami trees.
Clouds will be full of lightning, homes will be devoid of piety, and all human beings will
have become like asses.
At that time, the Supreme Personality of Godhead will appear on the earth.
Acting with the power of pure spiritual goodness, He will rescue eternal religion.
Lord Visnu—the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the spiritual master of all moving and nonmoving
living beings, and the Supreme Soul of all—takes birth to protect the principles of religion
and to relieve His saintly devotees from the reactions of material work.
Lord Kalki will appear in the home of the most eminent brahmana of Sambhala village.
Lord Kalki, the Lord of the universe, will mount His swift horse Devadatta and, sword
in hand, travel over the earth exhibiting His eight mystic opulences and eight special
qualities of Godhead.
Displaying His unequaled effulgence and riding with great speed, He will kill by the millions
those thieves who have dared dress as kings.
And all these kings who tried to enjoy the earth by their strength would be reduced to
nothing more than historical accounts.
After all the impostor kings have been killed, the remaining citizens will abundantly repopulate
the earth, and their minds will thereby become transcendentally pure.
Then, the Golden age will begin, and human society will bring forth progeny in the mode
of goodness.