What actually happens and the end of every yuga?

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Question. What actually happens at the end of every yuga? Answer. Every yuga is like a season in the cosmic cycle.
And what happens at the end of every season? Well, we say the seasons change. The atmospheric conditions change. And that way, the way people are living, that also changes.
In this sense, they may be wearing raincoats. In winter, they may start wearing sweaters. So like that, there is these yuga seasons.
And generally speaking, there may be some minor upheavals that happen at the end of each yuga. These are not the massive pralayas that happen at the end of either the day of Brahma or the complete pralaya that happens at the end of the lifetime of Brahma. Actually, these are minor events as compared to those massive events.
But still, they are also having significant effects sometimes. So, for example, it is said that when the Kali Yuga started here, this Kali Yuga started, at that time, the scriptures described that all the visible planets, they all aligned in one line, including the moon and the sun. This is a rare constellation, this is a rare celestial arrangement that happens only once in a long, long time, hundreds, sometimes thousands of years.
And this is what happened at the start of Kali Yuga. This is prophesied in the scriptures as a characteristic of Kali Yuga. Similarly, there are other upheavals that happen.
So now, when these planets align together, it’s a sustained gravity pull, we could say that at a physical level also it can cause some effects. But primarily, this sort of physical effect is coming because the cosmic season is changing. And this causes some disturbance.
That is also one of the reasons why there is not much trace of Vedic civilization left. Now, especially in terms of its global presence, because at the start of Kali Yuga, due to the cataclysms that happened, the central hold of the kingdom of the Kurus on the world got weakened and over a period of time lost. But in general, there are some upheavals that happen at the end of each Yuga, which indicates that there is going to be a change in the cosmic seasons.
There is nothing one specific thing that happens at the end of each Yuga. The characteristics vary depending on Yuga and they also vary depending on the Yuga cycle. That means that in some Yugas, there is also the Manvantara, the end of the lifetime of Manu that happens.
So if that is there, then there is far greater falla that happens. At the end of Kali Yuga, Kalki will appear and Kalki will cause a widespread destruction. So that sort of specific destruction that Kalki causes doesn’t happen at the start of Kali Yuga because there is a downward trend that is happening as per the cosmic plan in the time scale of the universe.
But at the end of Kali Yuga, one has reached the bottom and now things have to start from the top. That’s why there is massive destruction brought so that the ungodly souls are freed of their bodies and the godly souls are brought back to give them the authority, the power by which they can bring back Dharma in the world. So in this way, there can be various things that happen at the end of each Yuga depending on which Yuga is starting, which Yuga is ending and whether it is a Manvantara cycle ending in the period of dead Yuga also.
So there are various changes that happen. But the primary thing is there are upheavals because the seasons are changing.