How to Teach Someone About the Kali Yuga

We currently live in the Kali Yuga, which is one of the four stages of time that the world progresses through as part of the cycle of yugas. Here is how you can educate other people about the significance of the kali yuga.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

1. Teach your student that Hindu philosophy maintains that there are four aeons or yugas. These are the Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Kali Yuga and Dvapara Yuga. Explain that we are currently in the Kali Yuga, which began on 18 February 3102 BC.

2. Explain that each yuga takes about 432,000 years to complete.

3. Acknowledge that there is controversy among Hindu scholars. Most believe that we are currently in the kali yuga, but some maintain we are at the beginning of Dvarapa Yuga. This is a discrepancy that the student must reconcile for herself.

4. Explain that the Kali Yuga is considered the Dark Age, because that is when people are furthest away from God. Teach him that Kali Yuga is associated with the demoness Kali.

5. Describe the attributes of Kali Yuga, which is an age of avarice, wrath, lust, atheism, materialism and apocalypse.

6. Refer the student to Hindu scriptures as well as literature about the Yugas.

7. Contemplate the mysteries of the Yugas.