During the Golden Age of peace and harmony, people didn't have to work to live, the earth providing abundant food. They lived to a very, very old age while remaining youthful and eventually died peacefully with their spirits living on as the guardians & teachers of the race.

During the Age of Kali Yuga, an age of chaos & disharmony, people are forced to seek work yet are unable to find any gainful employment; They live anxious shortened lives of despair and urgent unmet needs, eventually dying confused & forgetful & often alone & forgotten; their spirits dying with them leaving behind the spiritless shells of blind ghosts.