Traps, Traps and Traps!!!

There is a very interesting concept of “yugas” in Sanatan Dharma. Someone broke it down in a very interesting way for me once and I have been in awe of the idea since then. There is believed to be a cycle to this Universe (Brahman), and its repeats itself over and over again. The Universe goes through this cycle of birth and death over and over again. What amazes me is the breakdown of the one cycle. There are believed to be 4 yugas namely Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga,Dvapara Yuga, Kali Yuga. You can see it as 4 different eras, the first one(Satya) is where people are the most virtuous and righteous, the stories from this era are usually the fights between Gods and Devils. As yugas pass people become less virtuous, the first Epic comes here called “Ramayana”, the story entails a war between two Kingdoms (Bharat and Lanka), as usual the right dharma wins. The next yuga brings the biggest Epic to date “Mahabharata”, this is a war inside ones own family. Brothers sharing the same blood, willing to kill each other for some piece of land. Well things in Kali Yuga get more interesting, this is the current yuga where people have lost their mind and are going farther away from their spiritual side and just looking for more materialistic lifestyle. The fight of this era is a fight within oneself, its ones fight with themselves. We see with the passage of the yugas the war/fight becomes more intimate from fights between Heaven and Hell to ones very own eternal internal battle. Its our duty to fight this battle!!