Prabhupada, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami creator text Mumbai Bhaktivedanta Book Trust 2023 monographic eng

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193p. Vedic Insights Revealing the Path to Real Peace Freedom from Suffering and God Conscious Living | ISKCON Books The Vedic literature has prophesised about this present age of quarrel and hypocrisy or the Kali-yuga. The Kali-yuga means the fourth age. There are four different kinds of ages in the vedic timeline: Satya-yuga, Treta-yuga, Ova para-yuga, and Kali-yuga. Just like there are six seasons, or four seasons in a year, similarly, in one day of Brahma there are one hundred cycles of four yugas. Four yugas means forty-three hundred thousands of years. It is a very long period. That is the duration of four yugas. When one thousand yugas pass, then one day of Brahma-twelve hours are finished. It is a big calculation. Anyway, there are four yugas-Satya-yuga, Dvapara-yuga, Treta-yuga, and Kali-yuga. In Satya-yuga, the religious principles are followed strictly, cent percent. That is called Satya-yuga. And in Treta-yuga, twenty-five percent reduced. That means seventy-five percent religious principles and twenty-five percent irreligious. And in the Dvapara-yuga, fifty-fifty: fifty percent religious and fifty percent irreligious. And the Kali-yuga, seventy-five percent irreligious and twenty-five percent religious, gradually reducing to nil-no more religion. Then finished. Then there will be devastation. Again Satya-yuga will begin. This is the way of change of Satya-yuga-Satya, Trete, Dvapara, Kali. The duration of Satya-yuga is about eighteen hundred thousand of years. Eighteen hundred thousands of years. Similarly, Treta-yuga, about twelve hundred thousands of years. Similarly, Dvapara-yuga, eight hundred thousands of years. And Kali-yuga four hundred thousands of years. This is the beginning of Kali-yuga. Out of about four hundred thousands of years, we have passed only 5,000 years. Kali-yuga has begun just after the Battle of Kuruksetra. So we have passed A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Philosophy and Religion Books Religion and Belief Books Krishna consciousness Spiritual life Hinduism Happiness Religious aspects Hinduism Bhagavadgītā Criticism, interpretation, etc Purāṇas. Bhāgavatapurāṇa Criticism, interpretation, etc Self-realization Religious aspects Hinduism Devotional literature Vaishnava Mantra meditation 294.5 T23 PRA 9789382716662 260627 20260630173738.0