The End of the World

I'm sorry. I can't resist talking about the whole "the world is going to end" buzz of 2012.

Vedic texts divide time into four ages. The Satya Yuga, or Golden Age, is a time of high morals and spirituality, and is the longest age. The Treta Yuga, or Silver Age, brings a decline in spirituality with increased intellect and decreased intuition. In the  Dwapara Yuga, or Bronze Age, demoniacal-type beings begin to be born. And in the Kali Yuga, the Iron Age, unrighteousness prevails. Kali Yuga is the shortest age. Like the four seasons, these four cycles continuously revolve. At the end of the Kali Yuga there is mass destruction of the old and the Golden Age is once more ushered in. By calculation, we are now approximately 5,000-10,000 years into the Kali Yuga.

The last episode of a  fascinating mini-series documentary called The Pyramid Code discusses the correlation between the Mayan long count calendar (the one ending December 21, 2012) and the Vedantic Ages. (It's 45 minutes long and WELL worth watching!!!) In this film, they discuss our current position in the cycle of darkness (Kali Yuga) and align the end of the Mayan long count calendar with the turning point of maximum darkness; the moment at which we begin to come out of unrighteousness and see the opportunity to open ourselves to the divine.

The narrator questions what our world would be like if we held super-consciousness as our highest value instead of material wealth. And so I will continue the question: Would it be so bad if the world as we know it did end in December of this year?