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You Have 5,000 Years Left To Attain Enlightenment
Failing scares me more than anything.
Here in India, a recent media buzz erupted at the potential re-emergence of the ancient, near-mythical ‘Saraswati’ river. Government initiatives sometimes even consciously attempt to bring it back.
But the curious thing about India is that it is not just a material phenomenon.
There is an undeniable energetic reality coinciding with the physical one — like how in the children’s show Avatar: the last airbender, the spiritual world exists on the same plane as the human world.
Reviving this river, then, is only half the equation.
We live in dark times.
According to Dharmic astrology, we’re currently in the kali yuga, a time of degeneration for consciousness.
Some rivers, such as the still extant Ganges, are considered divine entities. There is a soul, with great spiritual power, residing within this water body, passing on its subtle blessing. (One of the most important Buddhist sutras even mentions the Ganges river Goddess will be a future Buddha).
A 10,000 year golden period at the start of the kali yuga is predicted in Hindu texts such as the Srimad Bhagavatam.