Returning to Goloka

2. TRETA YUGA - also called the silver age, lasts 1,296,000 years. The
average life span is 10,000 years and the godly qualities decrease one
fourth compared to the Satya yuga. Human bodies have 80%
functional DNA and life is lived at less than full potential.
3. DVAPARA YUGA - or the bronze age, lasts 864,000 years. Godly
qualities are reduced to 50% by now and the average life expectancy is
only 1,000 years. Human bodies have 40% functional DNA and life is
lived with dependency on hardware technologies such as the wheel,
axe, knives, fire for cooking food, and shelters are constructed for
protection from harsher environments.
4. KALI YUGA - the iron age of hypocrisy, deceit, and quarrel lasts
432,000 years. Very few of the population exhibit the qualities of
devotion to God and life expectancy is only 100 years. Human bodies
have less than 20% 1 functional DNA, and that will continue to decline,
and life is lived in ignorance of its full potential. There is almost total
dependency on hardware technologies just to sustain life. It reaches
the extreme known as the "singularity" when computers have greater
than human intelligence and machines actually dominate - to the
extreme in which the human body is replaced totally by robotic
machines and human consciousness is somehow “hosted” by these
machines.
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See the research of Chris M. Rands, et.al. 8.2% of the Human Genome Is Constrained:
Variation in Rates of Turnover across Functional Element Classes in the Human
Lineage, published July 24, 2014, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgin. 1004525 and "What is
Junk DNA," by Ananya Mandal, MD, http://www.news-medical.net/health/What-is-Junk-
DNA.aspx
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