--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The linga purana gives a nice list--remarkably accurate:
Can't help but trip on some of the things this list considers bad about Kaliyuga and how much more that says about the people compiling the list than it does Kaliyuga: > -no morality, the sacred books no longer respected, false doctrines > will spread. In other words, people will stop considering us and *our* doctrines as the only real source of knowledge. > Working classes will want to take the power of the rajas and > obtain the knowledge, lifestyle of the rajas. Can't have that. > Most leaders will come from the working class. Can't have that, either. > Women who have relationships with several men will become numerous. Bad, bad, BAD women! Notice there is no similar prediction for men. > Base men who gain a little knowledge will declare themselves sages. As opposed to us, of course, who really know the truth. :-) > Ready-cooked food will be for sale. So much for the Enlightenment Burger franchises. :-) > The sacred books will be sold on street corners. Can't have people having their own access to the scriptures. They should have to come to us to have them interpreted "properly" for them. > Young girls will sell their virginity. Presumably if they gave it away, and to only one guy, everything would be hunky-dory. > Shopkeepers will run dishonest businesses. they will be surrounded > by pretentious, false philosophers. As opposed to us. :-) > People will massacre women, children, cows and one another. Presumably it is Ok to massacre women who have relationships with more than one man. > The number of rajas will greatly decline. Not if Maharishi has his way. :-) Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
