kali-yuga
कलियुग kali-yugaThe fourth and present world-age, the age of strife and decline, traditionally reckoned to have begun in 3102 BCE; the last of the four yugas, which begin with satya-yuga.
Where this term appears
- Āgama and Veda: two revelations Lineages
This is the Kali Yuga , the last of the four ages, when human capacity has shrunk and the long, exacting Vedic disciplines no longer deliver their fruit.
- The Char Dham Temples
It assigns each one an age of the world, a yuga : Badrinath to the Satya Yuga , Rameswaram to the Treta , Dwarka to the Dvapara , and Puri to the present Kali Yuga .
- The Four Yugas: Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali Essentials
The Kali Yuga is the bottom of the cycle, the age the same texts describe as a slow collapse of everything that holds a world together.
- The Three Paths to Liberation: Karma, Bhakti and Jnana Essentials
Hindu cosmology divides time into four descending yugas , and holds that we are deep in the last and darkest of them, the Kali Yuga , an age of short lives, weak wills and scattered attention.
- What are the Āgamas and Tantras? Lineages
This is the Kali Yuga , the last and most degenerate of the four ages, and the older Vedic means no longer bite.
- What is an Avatar? Deities
… , sliding from a first age of fullness down to a final dark age, the Kali Yuga , in which order is at its thinnest.
- What is Tantra? Lineages
Each age of the world, the argument runs, has its fitting scripture, and in the Kali Yuga , the present age of decline, the Vedic path has lost its power and the Agama alone is effective.
- The Wheel of Ages Treatise
Then the Treta , then the Dvapara , and finally the Kali Yuga , the age of strife, our own, when order has worn down to almost nothing.