Golden Period of 10000 years in Kaliyuga – References!
A male devotee (Name hidden) asked like this:
“Hare Krishna prabhuji. It is unbelievable for me, you are answering any question of any topic in k.c, personal life, etc. My question is: Prabhupada ji has said that the current ten thousand years are golden period for devotees. I want to know what happens after that. Please explain prabhuji.”
REPLY:
I will explain this question on “Golden Period of 10000 years in Kaliyuga” based on the words of Srila Prabhupada as well as Brahma Vaivartha Purana.
Srila Prabhupada said that the current 10,000 years are the golden period in the kaliyuga. During these 10,000 years, Krishna Consciousness will see a big boost and growth.
On what basis, Srila Prabhupada told like that?
He said so based on the Predictions in Brahma-Vaivarta Purana.
In Brahma-Vaivarta Purana 4th Canto, Chapter – 129, Text 59&60, Krishna says:
kaler daSa-sahasraaNi
madbhaktaaH saMti bhu-tale
ekavarNaa bhaviSyaMti
madbhakteSu gateSu ca
“For 10,000 years of Kali such devotees of Mine will be present on earth. After the departure of My devotees there will be only one varna [outcaste].”
madbhaktaSunyaa pRthivi
kaligrastaa bhaviSyati
etasminnaMtare tatra
kRSNadehaadvinirgataH
“Devoid of My devotees, the earth will be shackled by Kali. Saying this, Krsna departed.”
Krishna also says in 4.90.32-33:
“(Sri Krsna said:) Lord Hari will stay on this earth for the first ten-thousand years of Kali-yuga. For that time, the deities of the demigods will be worshiped and the Puranas and scriptures will also be present.”
“For half that period the Ganga and other holy places will be present. For half that period the village temples and the Vedas studied by learned brahmanas will be present.”
That means, for the next 10,000 years, the devotees can protect themselves from deterioration of kaliyuga and they will get all opportunities to follow dharma, devotion, etc.
That is why, all of us are following Krishna Consciousness now.
What will happen in Kaliyuga after 10,000 years of Golden Period?
After 10,000 years, there will be no dharma, no mantras, no worship, nothing. All will be stopped. Deterioration will intensify further.
(Will Kaliyuga end in the year 2032 as said by some books? READ HERE!)
Srila Prabhupada gives SHOCKING details about it during a discussion with Allen Ginsberg. Read that below:
Allen Ginsberg: Now, what is Kalki’s nature?
Srila Prabhupada: That is described in the Bhagavatam. He will come just like a prince, with royal dress and sword, on horseback simply killing, no preaching. There will be no brain to understand God.
Allen Ginsberg: There will be no brain to understand God?
Srila Prabhupada: People will be so dull. It requires a brain to understand…
Allen Ginsberg: So Kalki comes at the end of the Kali-yuga?
Srila Prabhupada: Yes. Then Satya-yuga will begin.
Allen Ginsberg: Which is?
Srila Prabhupada: Satya-yuga is the pious age. People will be pious, truthful, long-living.
Allen Ginsberg: Are those the people that will remain, or are they from whatever new creation comes out of the destruction?
Srila Prabhupada: All the miscreants will be killed. And there must be some pious. They remain.
Allen Ginsberg: Do you think of this in terms of a historical event that will occur in the lifetime of your disciples?
Srila Prabhupada: No. This will happen at least 400,000 years from now. So at that time my disciples will be with Krsna. [Laughter.]
Devotees: Haribol!
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Srila Prabhupada: And those who will not follow them, they will see the fun how they are being killed. [Laughter.]
Allen Ginsberg: Will people still be chanting Hare Krsna in 400,000 years?
Srila Prabhupada: No. Hare Krsna will be finished within ten thousand years. There will be no more Hare Krsna.
Allen Ginsberg: Ah. So what will be left?
Srila Prabhupada: Nothing. I’ll kill you and eat you, and you shall kill me. You shall eat me. That will be left.
Allen Ginsberg: After ten thousand years?
Srila Prabhupada: Yes, there will be no grain, no milk, no sugar, no fruit. So I will have to eat you, and you will have to eat me. Full facility for meat-eating. [Laughter.] Full facility. Krsna is very kind. He’ll give you facility: “All right. Why cows and calves? You take your own son. Yes. Eat nicely.” Just like serpents, snakes they eat their own offspring. Also tigers. So this will happen. And there will be no brain to understand [God], no preachers, nothing. And then Krsna will come: “All right, let Me kill you so that you will be saved.”
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Allen Ginsberg: But you see it as actually a historical thing of ten thousand years for the chanting?
Srila Prabhupada: Now it will increase.
Allen Ginsberg: Until?
Srila Prabhupada: Up to ten thousand years.
Allen Ginsberg: And then?
Srila Prabhupada: Then diminish.
Allen Ginsberg: So what is the purpose right now?
Srila Prabhupada: People will take advantage of this up to ten thousand years. Then they will…
Allen Ginsberg: So this is like the last rope, the last gasp.
Srila Prabhupada: [Laughs.] Yes. So the sooner we take shelter shelter of Krsna consciousness the better.
Let us go back to Krishna now itself to avoid facing the cruel Kaliyuga after 10,000 years!
If we don’t stop our births now, we will have to take births again and again and hence we will be present even after 10,000 years.
So, develop Krishna Prema by deserting material attachments; Only that Prema will take us to Krishna.
(Are the offenses in mind also punishable in kaliyuga too? READ HERE!)