Kali Yuga Quotes

• In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

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  Radhanath Swami

  Life Is Short   Duration   Kali  

  1745

• According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one leg, soon to topple. Then there are our new-age friends who believe that this December we're in for a global cage-rattling which, once the dust has settled, will usher in a great spiritual awakening. Most of this apocalyptic noise appears to be just wishful thinking on the part of people who find life too messy and uncertain for comfort, let alone for serenity and mirth.

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  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual   Believe   Dark  

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

  2522

• Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.

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  Radhanath Swami

  Fighting   Kali   Habit  

  5026

• In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.

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  Radhanath Swami

  Civilization   Atmosphere   Kali  

  1754

• It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.

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  Zeena Schreck

  Spiritual   Age   Quality  

  1752

• This is the fourth age, the Kali Yuga, and it's a time of great darkness. At the end of this age, there's supposed to be a cosmic dissolution and then life begins anew. It's a wonderful cycle of rebirth.

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  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism   Darkness   Age  

  5027

• We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is the Kali Yuga, the dark age. At the end of a cycle, Vishnu takes incarnation as a person. Vishnu is that aspect of God that preserves and protects life. When Vishnu leaves, Shiva comes.

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  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism   Dark   Childhood  

  799