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Evolution Next XVI — the Age of Truth

Dr. Alok Pandey

Abstract
We have entered the Age of Truth. The information explosion is only its surface sign. It is rapidly
shaping humanity. Our education and other institutions need to reckon this shift of values and change
accordingly.

The godheads of the future Divine seated in the human heart while the
new god takes his seat and sets into motion
Each age of mankind has its own presiding the New Law for earth and man. It is a period
godhead or deity. It is irrelevant whether a of massive revolutionary changes, shifts in
temple is erected in its honour and name or various energy-fields and an altering of the
not and whether any ritual worship is offered to balance of the previous Age. The old order
it. Though very often, we do find institutions breaks down and the new is activated in the
that serve as a temple and books to which human system or to use a modern simile,
zealous enthusiasts of ideologies cling as a new order is downloaded and installed.
sacred literature! Nevertheless this deity This subtle work often goes unseen due
becomes active in the heart of an age as the to the din and noise and the anguish and
Time-Spirit, since this is the original temple outcry of that changeover when, to use an
where all the gods have their seat. It is the Indian image, the great Serpent of Infinity,
immanent Divine within creation who puts symbolic of an unfolding time, changes its
forth one among His many aspects and powers coils, momentarily destabilising the earth. It
that begin to act in a particular age and turn the is only later, sometimes much later, that man
tide of time in a particular direction. Mankind notices the shift. In fact when the time for this
is helpless before this Zeitgeist or Kaal-Purussa shift comes it just happens and man has little
who embodies and upholds the yugadharma, say in it. Of course it becomes much simpler
the Law that will govern an Age. Of course, at if men understand what is happening and
first there is a stir and revolution that breaks consciously participate or at least collaborate
and eventually stops the influence of previous in the change that has been initiated. The
powers. The deity who ruled the previous change will take place even if they do not;
age withdraws behind the veil, back into the but it will only bring for them bewilderment

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