I feel my guide and best friend was telling me to look those terms up, but it's also something profound to me, and wikipedia has some statements to back up my claim:
"Amongst the four eras, the Satya Yuga is the first and the most significant one. 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 4000 years. During Satya Yuga, all people engage only in good, sublime deeds. Ashrams become devoid of wickedness and deceit. Natyam (such as Bharatanatyam), according to Natya Shastra, did not exist in the Satya Yuga "because it was the time when all people were happy"....as described in the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic:
[...] there were no poor and no rich; there was no need to labour, because all that men required was obtained by the power of will; the chief virtue was the abandonment of all worldly desires. The Krita Yuga was without disease; there was no lessening with the years; there was no hatred or vanity, or evil thought; no sorrow, no fear. All mankind could attain to supreme blessedness. [...]"
So I am taken a back. I realize this helps me write my fine art story for Gracie the "Demon" Hunter. But the text seemingly describes a miraculous Utopia.
I've taken the step to look up a Consciousness Center located here in my city of Anaheim, California. They have yoga and meditation tonight at 7pm, so I will be attending. They also have Swadhyaay (Group Study) tomorrow and I'll want to ask about it.
When googling Swadhyaay I was asked by google search if I meant: "Swadhyaya". Upon looking that up on wikipedia I was amazed to find this:
Swadhyaya means study of self for a spiritual quest.Also,
"The Swadhyay Parivar is a socio-religious movement based in Maharashtra, India."- wikipedia article
The Swadhyay Movement of the 1950s almost plays out like a movement that ushers into an example of Utopian societies. But even in that movement there was discourse. It wasn't perfect. Still I'm excited to say I'm inspired this is helpful to my creative writing and helpful to building a spiritual side.
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