Some sources say End of Kaliyuga is near

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(I’m re-posting the question in more suitable form and shall provide an answer with some more facts; please refute if you feel but let this be alive for people to see and comment/answer. I’m just an enthusiast, definitely not a spammer.)

If we match recent/current society with the description gave in this section of Mahabharata by the great Muni Markandeya.

The description sounds very familiar – looks like it gives almost identical account of the various characteristics world has demonstrated over the last century or so. Isn’t it?

We can easily verify most of the facts, like collapse of four orders into a common order, the whole world having one kind of food, rulers robbing their subjects by all means, both men and women becoming perfectly free in their behaviour and not tolerating one another's acts, girls themselves choosing their husbands, men ceasing to trust one another, people falsely bearing the marks of religion, men abandoning the countries and directions and towns and cities of their occupation, seeking for new ones, one after another...

It’s not necessary that every fact has to be occurring as is as it might be symbolic to something else, but things like girls of five or six years of age will bring forth children really struck the skeptic in me. However, soon I found that this in fact became reality in 1930s.

As most of us would know from childhood that we’re in Kaliyug – about 5 thousand years have elapsed – it would take another 432 thousand years for Kaliyug to reach to its end. What if this figure is actually symbolic to something else? What if we’re living during the end period of Kaliyug?

The ask from readers of this question is to provide facts in favor or against of this theory.

Answer 1

I recently stumbled upon this research paper which I can consider the most important and scientific sort of research regarding yugas that can dispel the myth of Kaliyug having 432 thousand years. As per the paper the four yugas are in fact 3 thousand years each and there are descending and ascending full yuga cycles (each full cycle having 12 thousand Earth years). The paper estimates the end of ascending Kaliyug in 2025. Note: the researcher isn't a working geologist, but rather a technologist. But I found the paper based on good number of facts and therefore I can consider it credible.

Then I also found a book on Veerabrahmendra – a divine saint born around 1200/1300C, the most interesting thing is the Kalagyana written by him and it has prophecies related to period during the end of Kaliyuga (most of which have already been manifested like world wars ETC). Swami Brahmendra is considered a precursor to lord Kalki and he himself described his time of arrival as Lord Kalki. I’m still going through the book. A comment on that page noted:

According to book, if we calculate, Kaliyug started in 3130BC. BrahmamGaru (Kalki) will born in year 2024-2025AD.. However he will known to World as Kalki in year 2040-2041Ad. He is married at 18 years in year 2042-2043AD. And from 2070AD, Kalki rules the world in his terms.

Similar prediction is made on National discovery channel’s blog from a seemingly different though not disclosed source:

According to Ajay, the end of the world is not so far from us. The world will end within 2085 AD.

Did the Mayan’s calendar actually refer to the end of Kaliyug (which people has incorrectly interpreted as end of world)? May be, yes. There are lot of convincing evidence from different, independent sources!