Kali Yuga

According to Vedic scriptures during Kaliyuga, the current age of darkness and ignorance:

Rulers will become unreasonable: they will levy taxes unfairly. Rulers will no longer see it as their duty to promote spirituality, or to protect their people and they will become a danger to the world.

All rulers occupying the earth in the Kali Age will be lacking tranquillity, but will be strong in anger, taking pleasure at all times in lying and dishonesty, prone to take the few meager possessions of others, with character that is mostly tamas (of darkeness ignorance, destruction, sloth), rising to power and soon falling. They will be short-lived, ambitious, of little virtue, nd greedy.

People will migrate seeking countries where wheat and barley are the staple food.

Avarice and wrath will be common, men will openly display animosity towards each other. Ignorance of dharma will occur. Lust will be viewed as being socially acceptable. People will have thoughts of murder for no justification, and they will see nothing wrong with this.

There will be no respect for animals.

Religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory will all diminish day by day because of the powerful influence of the age of Kali.

In Kali-yuga, wealth alone will be considered the sign of a man's good birth, right behavior and fine qualities. And law and justice will be applied only on the basis of one's power.


A sacred place will be taken to consist of no more than a reservoir of water located at a distance, and beauty will be thought to depend on one's hairstyle. Filling the belly will become the goal of life, and one who is audacious will be accepted as truthful. He who can maintain a family will be regarded as an expert man, and the principles of religion will be observed only for the sake of reputation.