Kali Yuga is Now Reaching Its Climax
So the cyclical time paradigm was universal. You found it in China, you found it in India, of course, but it was there in Greece, and Rome, and it was there with the Danu, and it was there with many other peoples. I think all, in fact. So the time cycle is a part of the heritage of humanity that only was jettisoned by the Roman Empire, and the Catholic, let’s say, bastardization of Christianity, the changing of the real teachings of Rav Yeshua, that took time as being linear; there was still an end time, so it was a limited time, and in the same way in the Jewish tradition, a linear time, but a time which was known as a heilsgeschichte in the German version of that understanding as expressed by Martin Buber and other Hasidim, that although time entropically leads to a decline—not a progress—but at the end there is the time of the Messiah, and there will be world to come. So implicitly the linearity is still cyclical, and you find that in the mystical Christian mystics as well; the more esoteric teachers who are teaching theosis, the divinization of man, is the return to that. And you find it in the Koran as well, because of Adam being considered the first and highest prophet, who had all the names, as we heard recently, so that knowledge returns, and therefore the paradise which is the environment of the Adamic being, becomes remanifest.
And they did have the understanding that the first yuga, which is called variously the Golden Age, or Sat Yuga, Krita Yuga, Satya Yuga, various different names—but it is also referred to as the Solar Dynasty, as the second age is the Lunar Dynasty. But it wasn’t that these people worshipped the sun, no, that was a much later, fallen state of the remembrance of that. It meant that they were in a state of total consciousness, that the consciousness of every inhabitant of the Golden Age was literally the light of the Sun of suns, the Source of the light that creates the universe, and that manifests as the sun and the stars, and all of the heavenly bodies, and the celestial light that is a reflection of the Supreme Supernal Light.
So the understanding of the Solar Dynasty is the complete consciousness that is independent. It does not require a reflection from an other, as the moon requires the light of the sun. So once you get into the Lunar Dynasty, you already have a shift from nonduality to duality. The duality is still a high one, because the moon is full, or mostly full, but it is still a fallen state; it is a state where, now, rather that being in Atman-consciousness, they are in soul-consciousness. And then in the Copper Age the soul and the ego are together. That’s one reason why it’s called Dwapar Yuga, the two towers, the two powers of soul and ego are in relationship that the ego eventually becomes dominant and represses the soul and that begins Kali Yuga.
So we have a cycle of time, but it is clear that in the Sat Yuga, time stops. There is no sense of time because every being lives in the present, and lives egolessly, and lives in a state in which the world and the Self are not different, and the world is perceived directly as light, as the emanation of consciousness, and not different from consciousness. So there is a nonduality, and a sense that all that is is—not even a dream, but a perfect reflection in space of the information, the beauty, the power, of the Self, and that it is the Self, that the world is internal to the Self, not other than the Self.
So the consciousness then gradually shifts, and by the time we get to Kali Yuga, of course, the ego is embedded in duality, it has a split-mind, it considers the world to be separate and objective, and different from consciousness, and outside of consciousness, even though it’s very clear that nothing is outside consciousness—you couldn’t know anything that was outside your consciousness—but there’s a belief, and it’s a religious belief, called “science”, but it’s a religion, that we are actually in a world that exists independently of us, because consciousness is identified with bodies, and bodies are temporary phenomena, that come and go in the world, they are part of the impermanence of the flux of time. But the consciousness remains present, even though it becomes unaware of its presence, because it becomes lost in thought. And as soon as your consciousness becomes lost in thought, and you believe that that thought is what you are, “I think therefore I am”—as soon as you become lost in that, you live in the past and the present, because thought is all about that—wishing that the past was still here, or that it didn’t happen—but having some relationship, nostalgic, or horrified by the past, and some fantasy about the future, that is either positive, hopeful, or negative and fearful. But the ego is always ping-ponging between these, and is never present.
And so it feels a lack of being, because being the Real is only presence, and the ego never knows presence, because in the present it dissolves, it dissipates. And so the mind continually chatters, because it is terrified of its own dissolution, its disappearance into a presence that is so awesome and so full of energies, that the ego cannot tolerate it, it cannot tolerate the bliss that would show up if you remained present for an extended period. The ego would begin to dissolve and all that would remain is presence. This is the whole point of meditation, but very few people meditate in such a way that the presence remains consistent and unbroken long enough to dissolve the sanskaras, the latent tendencies of the ego-mind, so that the ego pops back after the meditative formality, and is never dislodged from its fictional condition as a character. But the presence that is beyond the fictional entity, that one comes to believe one is, because the belief that the mind has reality, and represents one, takes over as the implicit religion of the ego itself, that cannot be undone or seen through by the ego, because it is based upon that, and it dreads knowing its own lack of reality, of essence.
So, it is only in moments of trauma, when one becomes speechless, that one knows presence, or moments of divine love, or being hit by a lightning bolt of shakti, or one is filled with that supreme presence to the point where the ego dissolves completely, that one has the sense of what the Real truly is.
So time itself changes its qualities as it goes on, and consciousness becomes more dense, and the world, rather than being a dream, becomes something that is all too solid, and all too resistant, and all too filled with danger, so that it has to be experienced by beings who remain vigilant and on guard, and using their minds to calculate their way of dealing with reality, and trying to get whatever benefits can be extracted from the flow of temporal change. And the consciousness does not have the luxury of abiding in presence, because of its paranoid tendency to need to compare the current situation with the past, and try to create an optimal future.
So time, from the perspective of the classical period, is seen as a circle that is entirely present all at once. There is a recognition that when you enter a state of total presence, you enter a higher dimension in which the apparent flow of time is entirely here; there is no past and no future, even though there is history, and there is the apparent shift, but actually it’s an illusion, because consciousness is present throughout it all—and that presence is always here and now.
And so all of time is present in every moment. In the same way that the entire ocean is contained in every drop—you are a microcosm of the macrocosm—but all of your past and future lives, and all of your experiences, are present in every moment if you are silent and still enough to perceive all of that information—it’s there, but it’s too subtle for the ego-mind, which is chattering, to pay attention to. And this is why information can be drawn from the so-called “Akashic Records”—it’s simply the information of the entire kalpa that is entirely present in every moment, if you pay attention, and you know how to decode that vibrational frequency in which it is contained.
So presence is the key to liberation, because presence is nonduality. And so this is why meditation is the path, the key, to attaining the liberation that is always here, because in fact there is no one needing to be liberated, since the ego is a fictional entity. And so because you are not the ego, you only believe you are, you are actually that total presence, as soon as that belief is dropped the goal of liberation is recognized as being your natural state, and it could not be anything else.
So this is the understanding that we must be able to fully grok in order to be liberated from, not simply the illusion of impermanence, but the fear and desire that the ego is based on, as its effort to overcome its lack of being, which it can never do. So presence is the only medicine to overcome that endless journey through the illusion of time, that can never reach fulfillment, until time itself comes to an end.
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Susan
4 Jan 2022Thank you:-)
michael
25 Feb 2024i am doing some research into kali yuga, and the first thing sources provided by google tell you is that there is 432,000 years left of kali yuga.
sadhgurus foundation also has different timings.
what is the source of the confusion/difference in timings?
I intuitively feel the current transformation we are living through, I resonate with Shunyamurtis teachings. I am writing on these times in such a way that people unfamiliar with the esoteric and spiritual can access these ideas that describe our current transformations. ending of Kali Yuga is something i would intend to use as one of the cultural references to the transformation, so I am looking for some clarity on the topic, and would greatly appreciate any help on the matter