KALIYUGA & ATTAINING GOD

KALIYUGA AND ATTAINING GOD

Dear Reader’s

We all are very fortunate that we are having means/ ways to attain God (Lord Krishna) in this Yuga of Kali, (Kali Yuga means "strife, discord, quarrel, or contention ) which is referred as the “Dark Age” or Dharma ending age because in it people are as far away as possible from God. (Kaliyuga is the fourth most consolidated age out of the four yugas i.e. Satyuga, Tretayuga, Dvaparyuga)

Let’s first understand the environment of earth before Kaliyuga:

Sat yuga: This age is also called the Golden age because all the pillars of religion were present in totality. During Satyuga all people engage only in pious, good and sublime deeds and worshipped god most of their time or I should say people were in Sattoguna (Spending most of their time in worshipping Lord Krishna), people were not interested in material sense enjoyment. In this age, people have the bodily strength of ten thousand elephants. The four incarnations of Lord Krishna in this yuga were Matsya avatar (In the form of fish), Kurma Avatar (In the form of turtle), Varaha Avatar (In the form of Boar), Narsimha Avatar (In the form of half man and half human being).

Treta yuga:  This yuga is the second yuga out of the four yugas. In this yuga the fifth, sixth and seventh incarnations of Lord Krishna as Vamana, Parashurama and Ramachandra were construed. In this yuga, human being got the opportunity to grimace (face) the Ram Rajya, the most auspicious rajya led by Lord Rama where no one was poor and everyone was happy in the kingdom of Lord Rama.

Dvapar yuga:  In this yuga, the kings would avail to the advice of the learned scholars and accordingly would maintain law and order in his empire. The king who was addicted to vices (wrong doings) would definitely end up defeated. One or two or all from Sama, Dama, Danda, Bhed and Upeksha would be brought into use and would attain the desired. Kings were diligent in maintaining public decorum and order. In this yuga only, Lord Krishna himself came to the earth to save Dharma and gave the lesson of “Bhagavad Gita” to Arjun. Lord  Krishna.

Kaliyuga:  At the end of the Dvapar Yuga, when Lord Shri Krishna renounced the world and went to Goloka, at that time Kali Yuga, the source of all chaos took birth in the minds of the ignorant. When king Yudhishtir realized the advent of the Kali Yuga that is chaos, greed, violence and lies, he expressed a desire to go to the forest and do penance. Accordingly, he abdicated the throne and coronated (crowned) his grandson Parikshit as the king.

This is the last & worst yuga out of the four yugas, according to the Vishnu Purana, he is a negative manifestation of Vishnu, who along with his extended evil family, perpetually operates as a cause of the destruction of this world. In the Kalki Purana, he is portrayed as a demon and the source of all evil.  

It is stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam that in Kali-yuga the heads of government will be plunderers (looter) and thieves. These thieves and plunderers take the money and property of the public by force or connivance (consent ). Therefore it is said in Srimad-Bhagavatam, As Kali-yuga advances, we can see that these characteristics are already visible. We can certainly imagine how deteriorated human civilization will be by the end of Kali-yuga. Indeed, there will no longer be a sane man capable of understanding God and our relationship with Him. In other words, human beings will be just like animals. At that time, in order to reform human society, Lord Krsna will come in the form of the Kalki avatara. His business will be to kill all the atheists because ultimately the real protector is Visnu, or Krsna. 

The modern activities of human society are described in Srimad-Bhagavatam as the activities of go-khara, cows and asses (sa eva go-kharah). Everyone is acting in a bodily concept of life involving society, friendship and love for the improvement of economic and political conditions, and thus all activities are enacted in ignorance. The Supreme Personality therefore comes to teach us how to act according to the Vedic principles. In this age of Kali, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and preached that in this age the Vedic activities cannot be systematically performed because people are so fallen. He gave this recommendation from the sastras:

harer nama harer nama
harer namaiva kevalam
kalau nasty eva nasty eva
nasty eva gatir anyatha

“In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way.” The Krsna consciousness movement is therefore teaching people all over the world how to chant the Hare Krsna mantra, and this has proved very much effective in all places at all times. The Supreme Personality of Godhead appears in order to teach us Vedic principles intended for understanding Him (vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah). We should always know that when Krsna and Lord Caitanya appeared, They appeared in suddha-sattva bodies. One should not mistake the body of Krsna or Caitanya Mahaprabhu to be a material body like ours, for Krisnna and Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared as needed for the benefit of the entire human society. Out of causeless mercy, the Lord appears in different ages in His original suddha-sattva transcendental body to elevate human society to the spiritual platform upon which they can truly benefit. Unfortunately, modern politicians and other leaders stress the bodily comforts of life (yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke) and concentrate on the activities of this ism (doctrine) and that ism, which they describe in different kinds of flowery language. Essentially such activities are the activities of animals (sa eva go-kharah). We should learn how to act from Bhagavad-gita, which explains everything for human understanding. Thus we can become happy even in this age of Kali. 

In Nutshell, the human form of life is a boon or opportunity for us to go back to Godhead i.e. go back to Krishna, so we should engage ourselves in the bhakti of lotus feet of Sri Krishna who is very merciful and will accept out prayers done without any selfishness and should avoid ourselves from being hankering after sense gratification because of the reason that Kaliyuga is the most consolidated age .