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My discussion with astrologer Abhijeet Mishra on the AstroEdify YouTube channel. I go into the details of the Yuga Cycle model, and explain why it indicates that the Kali Yuga ends in 2025, and what are the transformative changes we can expect going forward. 

It was a great discussion in which many interesting points came up, and Abhijeet brought his scriptural and astrological knowledge to the table to shed light on many of the things that are happening now in the world, and how things are likely to intensify in the period of transition.

Watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3spkO5kkA&t=3399s

  

 

Note: This article is based on information from my book, Yuga Shift, and was first published on Mysterious Universe (https://mysteriousuniverse.org/)

The legends and folklore of many cultures assert that humans lived much longer in the bygone ages – for some hundreds of years, in fact, – which seems difficult for most people to accept in the modern day, considering that the average lifespan today is around 80 years or so. As per the Yuga Cycle doctrine of ancient India, the average lifespan gradually declines as we move from the higher Yugas to the lower Yugas. The Laws of Manu declares that,

“(Men are) free from disease, accomplish all their aims, and live four hundred years in the Krita age (Satya Yuga), but in the Treta and (in each of) the succeeding (ages) their life is lessened by one quarter.”[1]

 

Note: This article has been extracted from my book, Yuga Shift

When we read the ancient legends and folktales, we constantly hear about how the heroes of the bygone ages were big and phenomenally strong. And I am not talking about the Greek demigods here, who were supposedly as tall as 15 feet, as per the classical Greco-Roman writers. I am talking about normal human beings. Pliny the Elder wrote in Natural History,

“But it is almost a matter of observation that with the entire human race the stature on the whole is becoming smaller daily, and that few men are taller than their fathers...Moreover, the famous bard Homer nearly 1000 years ago never ceased to lament that mortals were smaller of stature than in the old days.”[1]

 

Note: This article is extracted from my book, "Yuga Shift" and was first published on Mysterious Universe (https://mysteriousuniverse.org/)

One of the stories that most of us have grown up hearing is that the human species is continuously evolving to higher levels of intellect, by a gradual process of evolution by natural selection. It has been literally drilled into us that the modern human species i.e. Homo sapiens, has evolved over millions of years from ape-like ancestors.