The Four Eras According To Hinduism.

 All the living beings as well as inanimate objects undergo transformation, incessantly. 

An egg becomes an embryo that metamorphosis into an infant. Infant grows to become an adult. 

Adulthood paves the way to old age. 

Finally, the total bodily destruction takes place which is called death. 

Likewise, the world that we see before our eyes changes rapidly and after an era it is annihilated completely by the Supreme Being. 

According to Hindu scriptures, there are four eras (युग) - Satya yuga, Treta yuga, Dvapara yuga and Kali yuga. 

These yugas repeat themselves forever in a succession after every 4,320,000 years. 

Now is the Kali yuga - an era in which people shamelessly, without compunction perform immoral, unethical activities. 

About 4,26,879 years remain of Kali yuga. 

So this world will be decimated wholly after 4,26,879 years. 

Then again there would be Satya yuga - an era of truthfulness, honesty, kindliness and love. 

This world is nothing but an intricate web of illusions my dear. 

I believe, have written : 

फ़ानी है यह दुनिया प्राणी, फ़क़त पानी पर लकीर 

यह वाणी है बाबा नानक की, यही कहे संत कबीर 

फ़ानी : imperishable, फ़क़त : merely. 

This world is ever-changing, always in a flux. 

Just as a line - however bold or colorful - drawn on the surface of running water cannot remain for long, likewise all the worldly things and beings are evanescent, perishable. 

The more one attaches oneself with this perfidious world, the more one gets deceptions, griefs. 

This exactly is the essence of the teachings of all great spiritual masters like Gautam Buddha, Guru Nanak Dev, Kabir. 

~ Sanjay Gargish ~