The Fallacy of Extended Kali Yuga

The Extended Kali Yuga Fallacy is a great confusion reigning around the idea of ​​Kali Yuga, born of the notion of the great fanciful symbolic cycles of the Puranas, and aggravated by common and vulgar errors of interpretation.

The concept of Kali Yuga that the East holds today is nothing more than an undue fusion of ideas about Kali Yuga from different sources, most of which are unknown today. Ancient Indian cosmology is a black box full of veils, and sometimes it also has some blind spots. The scenario would not be encouraging if it were not for the efforts already made to solve all these problems.

The only reference to Kali Yuga that Hindu devotees had at some point was that of the great symbolic Yugas of millions of years, as they were unaware of the natural hierarchy of the Wheels of Time. This confused things and led them to mix up the different Kali Yugas cited by various schools, approaches and calendars, in a merely speculative formula without any objective basis in terms of chronology. In fact, the very adoption of Krishna's death as the opening of this cycle is nothing more than a simple inference for the establishment of this greater Kali Yuga in the Vaishnava imagination.

The subject is complex because it involves lost scientific cycles and exalted symbolic cycles. Although the five-thousand-year cycles are almost unknown in the present-day East, their shadow hovers over the traditions, myths and prophecies of Hinduism in a simple but eloquent way, like the light of the stars punctuating the darkness of the Night and providing references for sailors.

They provide the basis for the selection of the ten main avatars (among which Krishna and Kalki have duly marked the cycles in question) within the larger group of 22, just as in Buddhism they support the mandala of the Dhyana Buddhas. In the Stanzas of Dzyan (which are a possible Kalachakra tantra), the theme is expressed in the form of the five races discussed in the Secret Doctrine of Helena P. Blavatsky. Just as they were most certainly also represented in this sequence of five swastikas below originating from the ancient culture of Harappa, where the formula 5x5 thousand years of Plato's Great Year is suggested.

This situation arose from a great deal of confusion between parallel concepts and lost knowledge about the different wheels of time (or kalachakras), and here we have a step-by-step guide to solving it. Confusion is like the game of “Chinese whispers” where at the end of the line the initial message ends up completely modified. A transmission of information is usually influenced by the amount of information (or lack thereof) of the receiver.

It is natural that some people feel disturbed when they see such widespread dogmas being questioned, however when it comes to prophecies and calendars, unfortunately, error is very common and there are many reasons, not excluding the importance of secrecy or discretion. Of course, not everything happens in an absolutely innocent way. There is an intention in sects and religions to perpetuate things as they are, especially from a spiritual perspective, to the point of even creating completely fanciful calendars and chronologies for things.(1)

In this way, abstract or mysterious themes, related to jealously guarded secrets, naturally tend to suffer special deformations when a legitimate chain of transmission is broken.

So, follow the questions announced here in the Diagram below. And after this little exercise in applied cosmology, many new doors may open.

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1. The exotic Manvantara (or “Day of Brahma”) of 4,320,000 years (much publicized by the Hindu Vaishnavas) is only a veiled cycle that “does not exist” as such, since divided by the well-known esoteric Key of 360, it results in the “famous” cycle of 12 thousand years - and which, together with Pralaya (“Night of Brahma”), gives the complete Great Year of Plato. It is the largest circle of the Diagram with its “great Yugas” (“Ages of the World”). 

2. In addition, there was more than one cycle in Medieval India that used the language of the Yugas. The smaller cycle was similar to the current 5 thousand year old “World Drama” of the Brahma Kumaris School, which revived part of this knowledge in the 20th century. It also corresponds to the true Eastern concept of the “root race” of the theosophists (and thus demystifying another famous chronological “fallacy”). These are the smaller internal cir-cles of the Diagram, also with their “small Yugas”.

3. The death of Krishna, which is said to announce “the beginning of the current (great) Kali Yuga”, actually occurred at the end of the small Atlantean Kali Yuga, since avatars always come in this transition of complete cycles - see indication with arrow in the upper right corner of the Diagram.

4. We are currently concluding a new racial Kali Yuga, that of the Arya Race. It follows from this that an event analogous to that of Krishna is also announced to happen now with an avatar of a similar category, which is Kalki - see indication with arrow in the lower right corner of the Diagram. 

5. These two “small” Kali Yugas have been wrongly combined in the popular imagination under the assumption that they are the “Great Kali Yuga” (of that fantastical veiled Manvantara of 4,320,000 years), occupying all this time, when in fact many Yugas have passed since then, and both in the Great Wheel and in the Small Wheels, as can be seen in the Diagram. 

6. The true Kali Yuga of the greater Manvantara has not yet begun, and will only come in the middle of the Age of Aquarius - see also at the foot of the Great Wheel of the Diagram, through the intermediate band of the astrological Ages. 

7. Incidentally, the true moment of complete transitions receives the special name of “Diamond Age” (Vajra Yuga), a fact generally ignored in the dissemination of the world’s cycles, but also practiced to a certain extent by the Brahma Kumaris themselves mentioned. 

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If you have grasped these basic questions of cosmology, you are prepared to understand the true mysteries veiled by the profound symbolism of the Stanzas of Dzyan, as well as the reality of the racial and planetary cycles “veiled” by theosophical doctrines, including the arrival of the great Kumaras at the end of the previous round (Pralaya), as indicated by the arrow in the upper left corner of the Diagram, and their important analogies with the pre-sent moment of planetary transition.

Notes:

1. Thus, there are those who imagine that they can stop time by merely inventing unreal chronologies that do not correspond to the facts, designed only to preserve the subjective feeling of a sacred childhood. However, it is necessary to awaken to reality after a certain time, otherwise mysticism can become escapism and alienation, and then advance to the greater Yogas that also empower the person within reality itself, as is the case of Agni Yoga.

From the work "The Philosophies of Time", Luís A. W. Salvi

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About the Author

Luís A. W. Salvi (LAWS) has been studying the Ancient Mysteries for over 50 years. A specialist in the Philosophies of Time and Practical Esotericism, he also develops works in the areas of Perennialism, Deep Psychology, Esoteric Anthropology, Holistic Sociology and others. He has already published dozens of works through Agartha Publisher, in addition to maintaining the Agartha wTV Channel.