Do you believe in Kali Yuga?

Because when I have read the prophecies of Kali Yuga I have been haunted by them every bit. I have found every prediction made by the seers of the prior yuga to have truth to it. I see so many parallels between my own life and what the seers predicted. It seems the that the world is getting darker and darker each day.

There are four yugas and each one is represented on the leg of a bull. They are gold, silver, bronze and finally iron (the kali yuga). With each passing yuga a leg of the bull is lost and so a virtue. They are in order austerity, cleanliness, mercy and truthfulness. In the kali yuga the final leg is said to be disentegrating more and more each day. I feel as if the world is descending into madness, and truth surely becoming more distant and ephemeral each day. Kali yuga IS madness, and I feel a hell in me. I know in my current state that I am impure and at times insane.

I know there are sharp differences between hinduism and buddhism, but many Hindus/Buddhists coverge on the idea of Kali Yuga. Although they do not have an agreement on how it will ultimately play out. From what I gather the Hindus believe that (I think it was) the avater of Krishna will return to cleanse the earth of the sinners and reestablish his kingdom on earth . The buddhists think that the Buddha will return after armageddon reestablish peace on earth.

I'm probably completely butchering this, there is so much info on this topic and one wonders how much of it is true\accurate. That is not even including the fact that my memory could be causing me to completely skew the facts.

Many of you may not even believe in Kali yuga, or some of you might but see it as irrelevant to your practice, but I think it is a fascinating subject. It does really seem to me that we're living in an age of darkness.

What is your take on Kali Yuga? What is the Buddhists take on it?

(And I know I've been critical of Buddhism before, but like I said, I have never been able to shake the idea of Kali Yuga. It's one of the ideas of Hinduism that stayed with me after Buddha's rejection of Atman/ Brahman)

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