Season 3, Episode 6, School for Yogis, The Four Ages

This episode dives into the concept of the four ages as described in Vedic and Hindu mythology. The speaker discusses the cyclical nature of these ages, each governed by a different deity, and the characteristics and transitions between the Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age, and the Dark Age of Kali. The narrative underscores the shift from a world filled with prosperity and dharma to one dominated by materialism and suffering, eventually transitioning back to a Golden Age. Description given by AI friend, the underlord.

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Earth, mother and friends, you cross our heart. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to the Lowly Yogi Tales and Other Stuff Podcast. Oh, I'm so happy you found this lowly yogi here. Wherever you find yourself vibrating in that multiverse, attune this way. Let's have some fun together. Come and join me for the School for Yogis. We have made our way to class six. Class six is entitled The Four Ages, I'm having this marvelous experience as I go through and I listen to these classes. They were done 13 years ago in the basement of a tattoo parlor. A tattoo parlor that those who were there will know. Addictions. And, uh, boy, it was quite an adventure together. Uh, we had so many obstacles and so many joys as we shared the information. So it's bringing all that back. And then to also be teaching myself these words that have meaning. And the meaning resonates because it's being said to me in my own voice. And how intriguing is that? I hope that you're finding a similar experience, although it's not your voice, but maybe it's a voice that you know within you, a voice that you've heard, or you recognize, an old voice. And if so, please, that would be such a compliment in every way. Ah, well here we go once again, Class Six for the School for Yogis, the Four Ages. So, welcome. Tonight I thought about talking, I actually picked a topic, often I don't. Often I just jump in and see who's arrived and, let auspicious coincidence play out. But, uh, tonight it felt very important to talk about, what are called the four ages. And Vedic or Hindu mythology. They're the creation myth. And what's talked about in this creation myth is that there are what are called four maha yogas. And these four maha yogas play out, I believe it's a thousand times, in a day of the gods. The maha yogas are each 4, 700, 000 years long, the traditional amount of time. And They each progress with a different god at the helm. In the Golden Age, Brahma sits as god. In the Silver Age, Vishnu sits as god. Uh, Now it's interesting because the Silver and the Bronze Age, Vishnu takes a different form, but it's still Vishnu. Vishnu takes a different form in the Bronze Age. And then you have the Final Age, or the Age of Kali, which is the Dark Age. the way that it's traditionally played out is that in the golden age, what you have is actually wish fulfilling trees, and there is no need for money. There is no need, there is no idea of prosperity. There's no need for clothes or decoration or houses because you go to a wish fulfilling tree traditionally in the myth and it's given to you. Here's your food, it's quite an extraordinary time. This is said to be the Golden Age. Now, whether that's the case or that's a mythic image, we'll see. And I say we'll see because it's my understanding and my belief that we're getting ready now for the end of one age and the beginning of another age. The reason that Shiva's energy has been so present is that his creative is what ends one age and brings about the next. So the way The age changes. Now, let me go back a little bit and talk about each of the ages so that you understand what's happening. First, you have the Golden Age. The Great Age of Prosperity. Now, in this age, this is the Age of Dharma. And what that means is that actually everyone understands the full complexity of Dharma and lives by it. And that's what creates the Golden Age. And in fact, because everybody lives by the Dharma, That quality of the mandala that we live in is said to be held up in a pristine way. Right? It is said that the four ages are likened to four legs. And the golden age is said to be held up by all four legs. Because it is the age of Dharma, so it's solid. The silver age is said that one of the legs gets lost. And so now the Dharma is still important, still precious, but it's only being held up by three legs. And so what starts to happen is that greed starts getting introduced. And the wish fulfilling trees are there until people start trying to make ownership of them. And then they disappear. Because they cannot be owned. At which point it's said that rain starts to fall. In the Silver Age. Because the rain is needed to nurture the earth, so that the earth can grow things. But it's also said, because now we have weather and rain, that houses need to be built, and people have to work hard for their food, and they have to work hard for their clothes. Whereas in the Golden Age, they were just given to them. The Bronze Age is said to be a real turning point. It's said that actually, they get shorter with each age. The Golden Age is the longest. And then the Silver Age is shorter. Bronze Age is shorter. And the Iron Age, or the Age of Kalimah, is the shortest, thank goodness. Right? So, the Bronze Age is this tipping point where, actually, in the Silver Age, the highest thing that's seen is knowledge. Everyone is aspiring to knowledge, whereas in the Golden Age, everyone's actually aspiring to understanding the Dharma. In the Bronze Age, you now have two legs, and so the Dharma now is getting very fragile. It's starting to fall apart. So from a yogi or yo's perspective, what we're starting to see is our practice is about holding up the nature of mind. That's what a yoga is. When you understand a dharma or a powerful yoga, you're actually holding up an environment. You're holding up the nature of mind, which is heavy and more potent, dharmas, or hold up more of the nature of mind. This is why the more potent yogis we have. The different age takes place, right? In a golden age, there are many very potent yogis who hold it up effortlessly. And so this is starting to digress, it's starting to fall apart. And what starts to happen is the material world in the Bronze Age becomes more important, rather than knowledge. It's materialism. Right, and that is what everyone aspires to. And this is what creates the further digression into the Dark Age. Because out of that, materialism becomes need for power, control, the law, ownership. All of that starts to become very important in the Bronze Age. At this point, weapons start to get made, um, and lines start getting drawn. Control. Power and control. Now, it's not as bad as the age of Kali., Because in the Bronze Age, there are still some people out there who understand the Dharma. There are some people out there who, still have kindness as a priority. When you get to the age of Kalima, the fourth age, the Iron Age, basically everything has completely digressed. There are, there's only one leg. So everything is completely off balance. The Dharma is not there anymore. And it's said that actually the only kindness that exists is with the poor. That wealth is no longer distributed through Uh, understanding of Dharma. It's no longer distributed through right livelihood. It's actually distributed through a much more demonic way. That wealth is given to the people who will lie, steal, treat, cheat, and kill for it. That is the nature in the Dark Age. How it is distributed. Weapons are rampant in the Dark Age. The Dark Age is really an age of demons. And if we understand the fundamental nature of a demon, it feeds on suffering. So, what better thing to have than war? What better thing to have than introducing the energy that is our life source, that is our mainstay, which we call right now money, right? But we, whatever it is called in the golden age is quite different. You know, it's the same energy. But at that age, we work because we love to. We don't work because we have to, right? And this energy, which we now call money, and we have twisted into this idea of power and control, is not always like that. In fact, there are times in the Golden Age when it has nothing to do with that. When it is really profoundly just the understanding of Dharma as it should be. And so this energy of Dharma, or law, has actually been so corrupted in the age of Kali Ma, that evil basically has taken it over. When I think about the science of the world we're living in right now, I think about the Federal Reserve, for instance, and the whole banking system. And I think, well, what better way to introduce power and control into a system than introducing every dollar that's put out there as debt. You're literally enslaving everybody, instantly. And if you do that, you have, from a demon's perspective, an unending feast of suffering. And so, from that point of view, it's fantastic. It's this great joy, right, because the king of the demons is now running rampant. And there's a traditional story, actually, that's very important during this time, and it is said that actually there is an age, the age of Kali, where there's a bull headed demon who rules supreme. And he's taken over, actually, all of the offering goddesses, all of the Nagas, all of the things that bring wealth and power are under his domain. At which point, everything is suffering. And in fact, the whole system, the medical system, which is one of the three lords of materialism, just as the banking system is one of the three lords of materialism, as the insurance system is one of the three lords of materialism, they're all interconnected. Literally, we have to have those three things to be in the material world. We have to have insurance to exist in the material world. We have to have money to exist in the material world. And we have to have physical body or medical attention to exist in the physical world. And all of those things in this dark age of Kali Ma are based on control and power and bringing about suffering. Now, The story goes, this has happened many times, it's said that actually in one day of the gods, this progression of golden age to dark age happens a thousand times. Oh, wow. So, it's said that at the end of this, in the dark age, Shiva is said to be the god, in the age of Kali Ma. Now the intriguing thing about this to me, is that actually, it's Shiva, and only Shiva, that can meet Kali to her very end. And that's really important. Because what we're talking about now, when we talk about Tara's yoga, we're actually talking about manifesting Shiva's creative. She does that. Because what we talk about, when you hear about Shiva's teaching, when you really hear about the words that are used around his yoga, You hear about Uma, you hear about Shakti, you hear about the mother, it's the feminine. It is essential to note, you know, we talk about all of these negative and these dark things and the brutality. And probably the most important thing that I will say tonight is that that is not the problem. That is not the big deal. That we exist in this age of demons, that we exist in this world, that is not the problem. It is the solution. The point here is that there is absolutely nothing to fear from a yogi's perspective. There is nothing to fear about being in the dark age as a yogi. It's the good news. Because it's a fast means to waking up. You are either the king of the demons or Tara. That's it. Yeah. That's it. There's no distinction between, there's no middle ground. Because you are either all of the horror or Shiva's creative. Because you either meet it or you become it. And we're talking about it on that potent of a level. That at any point along this path, this is why this yoga is so dangerous. At any point on the path, if you believe the demons, you're gone. You're stuck in their entrails and they have you. And they have you in a Vajra hell. They don't just have you in a hell, they have you in an adamantine version of it. So, it's really subtle and it's really, and it's really simple. I mean, I wanted to get all heavy there, but actually, it's very simple. Again, we go back to the good news, because what happens, what will happen, is, and this really ties into Maciej Globdrum's teachings. Maciej was an extraordinary woman. She was the first Tibetan Mahasiddha to actually give original teachings back to India. How do you spell her name? Machig. M A C H I G. Machig. Actually, if you're interested, uh, Sultram Alione Who you can find on Facebook and so on. She wrote a book called Women of Wisdom. And that's an easier one to remember. Women of Wisdom. And within it, Manchik, she tells Manchik Lakram's life story. And it's, it's a great story. And Manchik began her practice with the Prajnaparamita. Just doing that mantra. Actually she was, as a child, she was one of the ones who could read. So she was invited to houses to read the Prajnaparamita for people. And what happened over time is, well, the Prajnaparamita, of course, is the most wrathful mantra of Tara. And so she started to gain huge realization. That's the secret, by the way. That's, you know, that's, uh, that will invoke or bring about egajati. Now, let's, let's take a step back from the, and look at this from the perspective of a yoga. Because all of the demons are eaten by Kali in the story. She doesn't let one drop of blood fall. And so in that moment, she is all of the horror. She's all of the demons. She embodies everything. All of it. Now when you look at something from the point of view of a yoga, you're looking at half vibrations. Okay, so you need all of Kali to be all of Shiva. that's the yogic relationship. Is that, you have to, so that's why I keep saying that there's no problem with this realm. Right, because it's, it's like yin and yang, it's the opposite. But you need them both to attain the realization. That literally both vibrations come together, and what do they come together as? Bodhichitta, in its purest, most adamantine form. We absolutely need the dark. To have it show us the light. But it's also more than that. It's literally the nuts and bolts, the material we need to manifest the Vajra Palace, to manifest Shiva's Mandala. You cannot manifest this yoga without all of that material. You can't do it. So that's why when Vedic practitioners were working and they would do these incredibly intense austerities, what they were working to do was literally build the karmic material so that they could then, when they lit up their kundalini, they had all of the material in place to manifest the mandala. You see Kali Ma just as an idea, she's actually literally the entire material that you need to manifest Shiva's mantra, Shiva's creative, thus bringing about the golden age once again. Why are people so afraid of Kali? Well, for a very good reason. But, I mean, if they knew that you have to have her. Right. Well, just like Buddha. He had to have her. The demons, or he would have never been. Right. And he had to have all of the demons. All of them. All of the demons, to the end of, to literally, he attained Tara's realization. As Christ did on the cross. What was he doing? He was literally gathering all of Kali Ma, in the Passion. He came, literally, all of his material, and then when he lit up, it was all present. It was all there. So it's very important that we gather all of the material that we need to wake up. In the story of Oppa, he storms the palace of the Dinis. And when he finally gets through all of the obstacles and he gets to the queen of the Dinis, she who would be Tara, who would be Collie in her most wrathful form.'cause that's who Collie is, is Tara in her wrathful form. And it's actually what Shiva does. This is the fa most fascinating part of the story to me, is that what Shiva does. is he loves her. He was able to do that. And he's not, he doesn't do it once. He does it every, every time the ages shift. He knows his job is to love her. All of her. All of her horror. All of the nasty crap and shit and blood and pus and Pedophile evil, war, you know, the baby's dead on the back of the mother, all of the horror. All of it. He loves all of it. That's what brings her back. That's what reminds Uma, Tara, of who she is. And the poison is met to the end. And that's what brings about the Golden Age. It's not when Kali kills the king of the demons, it's when Shiva Loves her to the end. Has calling. That is enlightenment. That is the yoga of enlightenment. It's what you and I can do. We just keep it in the presence all the time. It has to be there all the time. And when you're going through your life and you're meeting everything with Tara's mantra, you're literally building the material. That's literally what you're doing is you're gathering all of the material that you need. And what will start to happen very naturally is that as you gather it all, as I saw very clearly, the empowerment will literally come to you and say, now it's time for you to light up. Right, right. Now, you know, now okay, you're ready. relic on your head five times. Boom, you know, okay, I'm on. When we meet it with Bodhichitta Whatever is arising out there, when we meet that with bodhicitta, when we meet it with that loving kindness, when we do tonglen, when we say our mantras, we're actually undermining that separation. There's an interesting teaching. I call it, take the cake. And at the end of every protection mantra, there's literally a statement that says, eat the cake. Eat the cake. Eat the cake. Eat the cake. And every protector, what you do is you literally create a cake. When you do a protection mantra, it's called a terraforma, and you put it out and say eat the cake. The idea is that all of the negativity goes to the cake, not to you. The mantra becomes the cake. By saying the mantra, whatever negative force might be coming into the environment has something to feed on that's not you. No, we're in the age of Kali That's very clear. Oh, very clear. We're very clearly in the age of Kali Maha. And I believe we're getting ready to move into the Golden Age. That's the transformation that's taking place. We have to be ready. From the inside out. And that's why it's so terrifying to everybody. But we are working. I think it's something to really look forward to. Oh, I agree. I agree. I feel like I've been working very hard at holding my piece, whatever small piece that might be. And making this happen. Well, I didn't do it then, but I'm certainly going to do it now. Let's dedicate the merit together. By this merit, may all obtain omniscience. May it defeat the enemy wrongdoing. From the stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness, and death. From the ocean of samsara, may it and I free all beings. By the confidence of the golden sun of the great east, may the lotus garden of the Rigden's wisdom bloom. May the dark ignorance of sentient beings be dispelled. May all beings enjoy profound, brilliant glory. Ah, Class VI, the school for yogis. I hope this illuminates the four H's. And I also hope that it finds you having a week filled with joy, a week filled with plenty, and a week filled with glorious. Play us out, Monkey Max. Play us out. Earth, Mother, and Friends Earth, mother and friends, you cross our hearth at last. Long have we grieved while the king of demons had his way. But no longer, no longer, it's time to dance and sing. This is the time when the golden age begins As we welcome love and peace and ease may it never cease Welcome joy and bliss in all the eyes of serpents kiss Welcome Mother, Welcome Child, Welcome Bodhi, Tinder, and Mile. Welcome Protection, and Welcome Friends. It's been a long wait, but now the Golden Age begins. Welcome Spring, Summer, and Fall. Winter is Persephone's and sweetest of all. Welcome Immortality. Welcome all, it's time to dance and sing, as the golden age begins. Welcome all you yogis, and we call you in. Welcome all you protectors, and we call you in. Welcome all you yogis, as the golden age begins.