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hand of the last Saint, and will be destroyed by devas for his extreme impiety. The Saint and the Nun will perform sallekhanā death, along with the householder and the pious lay lady. Fire will disappear instantly, and dharma will cease to exist in the next moment !
Thereafter the sixth kāla, likewise of 21,000 years, will supervene. It will be the worst of all. People will keep on deteriorating, and the suffering and misery will be intolerable. Cooking will be unknown; for there will be no fire ! People will take to raw meat, which they will bite off from living animals and even men. Law and order will be replaced by lawlessness and disorder. At the end of the sixth kāla, a great calamity will befall the world; for forty-nine days there will rain down on it fire and ashes and burning cinders; hot winds will scorch up all the surface of the soil, and it will be ripped open to a great depth; all living nature will be destroyed, excepting those who are able to hide themselves in deep ravines and caves or who are
from the Jaina view, in reality, implies no difference at all. For the Hindu Kalki is the destroyer of the soul's internal enemies-passions and appetites and the like who will establish the Kingdom of God in the human Heart, while the Jaina Kalki will be an historical enemy of the Faith and of the followers of the Faith, who will be a man of flesh and blood in the outer world!
