KALI YUGA 2

It doesn't matter how many times I try and convince people that systems decay as well as flourish most look at me vacantly in disbelief. It's simply a law of the universe, I didn't make the law but I know down to my core that it is so. Today I was reading an article by Richard Stein's article Jung's Relationship to Indian Yoga and I came across this:

Unlike our modern notion of progress, the ancients imagined a decline through four stages of culture. The holy order of the universe decays from the golden age of truth to the Kali yuga, which precedes the end of time, the pralaya, or great destruction.

He goes on to quote Zimmer who offers indicators as to what this might look like, or perhaps what we should be looking for:

The seemingly holy brahmin is no better than the fool. Old people, destitute of the true wisdom of old age, try to behave like the young, and the young lack the candor of youth....The will to rise to supreme heights has failed; the bonds of sympathy and love have dissolved; narrow egotism rules....and the universe is ripe for dissolution.

If we go by those indicators, I'd say Western culture was absolutely in a Kali yuga.

In 1894 Madame Blavatsky wrote:

....we are in Kali Yuga. The characteristics of the present time show it clearly enough, for while physical civilization is high the spiritual side of it is low and dark, and selfishness is the prevailing order.

We've had plenty of warning, but of course, this is just how it is, and must be. Anything we might have tried on an external level would simply have had no impact anyway.

But according to Mme Blavatsky, it's not all bad.

The beginning of this Age and the time of its ending are dark to us; but....We can also get great comfort from the theory given out at various times, that in Kali Yuga a small effort goes farther for results than the same when made in a better Age. In the other Ages the rates of all things are slower than in this; hence, evil now seems quick; but in the same way good is also much quicker in effect and reach....

For a couple of reasons, and particluarly for those who have spent little or no time contemplating the 'meaning of life', now might be a good time to get cracking! Again, as so often, I feel vindicated in my urgent impulse to evolve my own consciousness. I can't say it will make my transition any easier but at least I can say I have tried.

For an earlier blog post of Kali Yuga click on the link.

Blavatsky, Path, November, 1894, http://www.blavatsky.net/theosophy/judge/articles/kali- yuga.htm Stein, Snapshots from the Void: Reflections on Jung's Relationship to Indian Yoga.