Kali Yuga

"We live in an age of spiritual decay...what the Hindus call 'Kali Yuga'.

"The Hindus believe that in history there have been epochs of creation and destruction. An empire is built up and then, without warning, it quite suddently falls apart. They say that we are now in a cycle of decay -- that we are too sinful and that everything is cracking up.

"Maybe the Hindus are right. Maybe this is the age of Kali. The dark age... The age of disintegration... All the signs are there."

Dr. Yusuf Jaffrey, Muslim historian, Delhi, quoted by William Dalrymple in City of Djinns.

A good meditation for Holy Week.