Kali Yuga

[kuhl-ee yoog-uh]

noun

Hinduism.

1. the fourth and present age of the world, full of conflict and sin.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Kali Yuga¹

From Sanskrit

Example Sentences

By the time I was a teenager, he had declared himself to be a unique incarnation of God, a physical manifestation of divinity here on earth sent to liberate us from what he called the “dark times” or “Kali Yuga.”

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He has described political correctness and liberalism as harbingers of the Kali Yuga, and glowingly referred to the Eurasian order as “the spiritual order that penetrates all levels of reality, both subtle and coarse, soulful and corporeal, social and natural.”

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Dark metal bands and American right-wing radio stations also roar about the Kali Yuga, the Dark Age of Hindu mythology, which Savitri Devi believed that Hitler was once destined to bring to an end.

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Brook believes that for humanity today the wheel is approaching Kali Yuga, the dark and chaotic phase described in Sanskrit scriptures.

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“The Age of Quarrel” appeared in 1986, with a title derived, as many listeners probably didn’t know, from the Sanskrit term kali yuga, which refers to a time of strife said to have begun about five thousand years ago.

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