{"id":980,"date":"2026-04-22T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/?p=980"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:21:40","slug":"kali-yuga-kali-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/kali-yuga-kali-age\/","title":{"rendered":"KALI-YUGA (Kali Age)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kali-Yuga, the present dark age of spiritual decline. It is traditionally said to have started with the &#8220;death of Krishna in 3002 B.C.E. This idea is fundamental to Tantra, which purports to be a new gospel for the dark age. The word &#8216;kali,&#8217; often loosely translated as &#8220;dark,&#8221; derives from the losing throw of the dice, dice playing being a favorite activity of the ancient Indians. \u2014 Georg Feuerstein, The Encyclopedia of Yoga and Tantra (1997)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/182162_467715173241114_1263210934_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3891\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/182162_467715173241114_1263210934_n.jpg\" alt=\"182162_467715173241114_1263210934_n\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/182162_467715173241114_1263210934_n.jpg 403w, https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/182162_467715173241114_1263210934_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/182162_467715173241114_1263210934_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have reached the apex of this era and the pendulum has just begun to shift into a new extended period of increasing &#8220;light.&#8221; &nbsp;Astrologers date the aphelion and beginning of this shift, December 21, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kali-Yuga, the present dark age of spiritual decline. It is traditionally said to have started with the &#8220;death of Krishna in 3002 B.C.E. This idea is fundamental to Tantra, which purports to be a new gospel for the dark age. The word &#8216;kali,&#8217; often loosely translated as &#8220;dark,&#8221; derives from the losing throw of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}