CIVILIZATION AND SOCIAL ISSUES

What is the Hindu View of the New Age?

Various cycles of civilization and different ages of humanity have come and gone through the great movement of time. Our current civilization is neither the first nor the last, nor the highest nor the lowest.

Hinduism as Sanatana Dharma has witnessed the rise and fall of the civilizations of the world since ancient Egypt and Sumeria, and has an awareness of previous world ages thousands of years before the present cycle of civilization that began at the end of the last Ice Age. It both understands these cyclical changes and remains grounded in the Eternal Truth which transcends them.

Many people today, particularly with the change of the millennium, are looking for the dawn of a New Age of spiritual knowledge or global civilization. More specifically, the New Age movement is a name for much of the new thinking in spirituality, religion, and healing that has emerged in the Western world over the past few decades.

It includes a number of strands with Eastern enlightenment traditions, Western occult approaches and various new ideas in health, psychology, sociology and ecology. It has a prophetic trend and strongly futuristic vision.

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