When Your Dog Is More Loyal Than Your Best Friend: Understanding Loyalty in Kali Yuga If you're wondering why your pet seems more trustworthy than most humans these days, Hindu scriptures have been warning us about this for millennia. The Age of Diminishing Virtues According to Hindu scriptures, we are currently living in Kali Yuga, the fourth and final age in the cosmic cycle of time. The Vishnu Purana describes this era as one where righteousness stands on only one leg, wobbling precariously like a person trying to put on pants while standing up. The Bhagavata Purana (12.2.1) states: "In Kali Yuga, wealth alone will be considered the sign of a man's good birth, proper behavior, and fine qualities. And law and justice will be applied only on the basis of one's power." This ancient prediction reads like a modern newspaper headline, doesn't it? When material wealth becomes the primary measure of worth, loyalty naturally becomes a commodity to be bought, so...