Bhagwat Puran Predicts the Qualities of Kali Yuga Accurately
Bhagwad Puran predicted the qualities of Kali Yuga (the present age) so perfectly 5000 years back.
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| Shri Shukdev Goswami speaking Bhagwad Puran 5000 years ago |
At the outset we present here is exact translation of verses from the scripture for everyone to
contemplate and observe whether they are true in the present times or not.
SB 12.2.1 — Śukadeva
Gosvāmī said: Then, O King, religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance,
mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory will all diminish day by
day because of the powerful influence of the Age of Kali.
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| No tolerance |
SB 12.2.2 — 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.
SB 12.2.3 — Men and women will live together merely because of superficial attraction, and success in business will depend on deceit. Womanliness and manliness will be judged according to one’s expertise in sex, and a man will be known as a brāhmaṇa just by his wearing a thread.
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| Only superficial attraction |
SB 12.2.5 — A
person will be judged unholy if he does not have money, and hypocrisy will be
accepted as virtue. Marriage will be arranged simply by verbal agreement, and a
person will think he is fit to appear in public if he has merely taken a bath.
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| People should go to Holy place to meet saints, but people will go there to a take bath |
SB 12.2.6 — A sacred place will be taken to consist of no more than a reservoir of water located at a distance, and beauty will be thought to depend on one’s hairstyle. Filling the belly will become the goal of life, and one who is audacious will be accepted as truthful. He who can maintain a family will be regarded as an expert man, and the principles of religion will be observed only for the sake of reputation.
SB 12.2.7 — As
the earth thus becomes crowded with a corrupt population, whoever among any of
the social classes shows himself to be the strongest will gain political power.
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| Powerful will grab power |
SB 12.2.8 — Losing their wives and properties to such avaricious and merciless rulers, who will behave no better than ordinary thieves, the citizens will flee to the mountains and forests.
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| People forced to live in forests & mountains |
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| Forced to eat leaves & roots |
SB
12.2.10 — The citizens will suffer greatly from cold,
wind, heat, rain and snow. They will be further tormented by quarrels, hunger,
thirst, disease and severe anxiety.
SB 12.2.11 — The maximum duration of life for human beings in Kali-yuga will become fifty years.
SB 12.2.11 — The maximum duration of life for human beings in Kali-yuga will become fifty years.
SB 12.2.12-16 — By the time the Age of Kali ends, the bodies of all creatures will be greatly reduced in size, and the religious principles of followers of varṇāśrama will be ruined. The path of the Vedas will be completely forgotten in human society, and so-called religion will be mostly atheistic. The kings will mostly be thieves, the occupations of men will be stealing, lying and needless violence, and all the social classes will be reduced to the lowest level of śūdras. Cows will be like goats, spiritual hermitages will be no different from mundane houses, and family ties will extend no further than the immediate bonds of marriage.
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| Family ties limited to husband, wife & children |
At that time, the Supreme Personality of Godhead will appear on the earth. Acting with the power of pure spiritual goodness, He will rescue eternal religion.
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| The Kalki Avatar |
SB 12.3.30 — When there is a predominance of cheating, lying,
sloth, sleepiness, violence, depression, lamentation, bewilderment, fear and
poverty, that age is Kali, the age of the mode of ignorance.
SB
12.3.31 — Because of the bad qualities of the Age of
Kali, human beings will become shortsighted, unfortunate, gluttonous, lustful
and poverty-stricken. The women, becoming unchaste, will freely wander from one
man to the next.
SB 12.3.32 — Cities will be dominated by thieves, the Vedas
will be contaminated by speculative interpretations of atheists, political
leaders will virtually consume the citizens, and the so-called priests and
intellectuals will be devotees of their bellies and genitals.
SB
12.3.33 — The brahmacārīs will fail to execute their
vows and become generally unclean, the householders will become beggars, the
vānaprasthas will live in the villages, and the sannyāsīs will become greedy
for wealth.
SB 12.3.34 — Women will become much smaller in size, and they
will eat too much, have more children than they can properly take care of, and
lose all shyness. They will always speak harshly and will exhibit qualities of
thievery, deceit and unrestrained audacity.
SB
12.3.35 — Businessmen will engage in petty commerce and
earn their money by cheating. Even when there is no emergency, people will
consider any degraded occupation quite acceptable.
SB 12.3.36 — Servants will abandon a master who has lost his
wealth, even if that master is a saintly person of exemplary character. Masters
will abandon an incapacitated servant, even if that servant has been in the
family for generations. Cows will be abandoned or killed when they stop giving
milk.
SB
12.3.37 — In Kali-yuga men will be wretched and
controlled by women. They will reject their fathers, brothers, other relatives
and friends and will instead associate with the sisters and brothers of their
wives. Thus their conception of friendship will be based exclusively on sexual
ties.
SB 12.3.38 — Uncultured men will accept charity on behalf of
the Lord and will earn their livelihood by making a show of austerity and
wearing a mendicant’s dress. Those who know nothing about religion will mount a
high seat and presume to speak on religious principles.
SB
12.3.39-40 — In the Age of Kali, people’s minds will always
be agitated. They will become emaciated by famine and taxation, my dear King,
and will always be disturbed by fear of drought. They will lack adequate
clothing, food and drink, will be unable to properly rest, have sex or bathe
themselves, and will have no ornaments to decorate their bodies. In fact, the
people of Kali-yuga will gradually come to appear like ghostly, haunted
creatures.
SB 12.3.41 — In Kali-yuga men will develop hatred for each
other even over a few coins. Giving up all friendly relations, they will be
ready to lose their own lives and kill even their own relatives.
SB
12.3.42 — Men will no longer protect their elderly
parents, their children or their respectable wives. Thoroughly degraded, they
will care only to satisfy their own bellies and genitals.
SB 12.3.43 — O King, in the Age of Kali people’s intelligence
will be diverted by atheism, and they will almost never offer sacrifice to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the supreme spiritual master of the
universe. Although the great personalities who control the three worlds all bow
down to the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, the petty and miserable human
beings of this age will not do so.
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| Life & times of Kali Yuga |
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