Hinduism: Details about 'Dharma Yukam'
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The Satya Yuga, also called Sat Yuga, Krta Yuga and Krita Yuga in Hinduism, is the "Yuga (Age or Era) of Truth", when humankind is governed by gods, and every manifestation or work is close to the purest ideal and mankind will allow intrinsic goodness to rule supreme. It is sometimes referred to as the "Golden Age."
The cycleThe yugas are said to succeed each other almost endlessly. After the perfect Satya Yuga, a decline marks the Treta Yuga. Further decline brings about the Dwapara Yuga, and after it comes the final and dark Kali Yuga, a time of wickedness, when man kills man. At the end of the cycle a Divine Being is said to take birth and reestablish righteousness, thus beginning a new Satya Yuga. The Satya Yuga according to some holy textsAmongst the four eras, the Satya Yuga is the first and the most significant one. This era extends up to 1,728,000 years. Knowledge, meditation, and penance hold special importance in this era. All the pillars of religion are present in totality. The average life expectancy of a human being in Satya Yuga is believed to be over 4,000 years. During Satya Yuga, all people engage only in good, sublime deeds. Ashrams become devoid of wickedness and deceit. In AyyavazhiIn Ayyavazhi mythology, the Satya Yuga, or Dharma Yukam, is the eighth or final yukam (yuga). In the Akilattirattu Ammanai it is a concept related to the Christian heaven or the Hindu moksha. By destroying all the evils that were the fragments of Kroni, the primordial personification of the evil spirit in the successive yukams of Neetiya Yukam, God, who was incarnated as Ayya Vaikundar, rules this yukam as an uncounterable king with the Santror Makkal. See alsoTopics in Hinduism
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