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Chapter -18 - Uththarakandam

Kali Yuga Varnnana/The hard phase of the Kali era

Sage Kakabhushundi speaks “ Oh! Garuda, In kali era 1)  the people will not follow Varna or Ashrama Dharma, 2) they will not follow any of the righteous deeds, the people take great pleasure in disgracing the Veda and Purana.  3)The twice-born sell their knowledge for money, 4)the Kings will take pleasure in torturing its subjects, and no one will follow or believe the Vedic rites.  5) Everyone follows their own mind and consider them a perfect way of performing rites.  6) People who have excellence in speech would be the leader of scholars, spread false perceptions, and recommends newly formed structures of Dharmic rites, considered as Sajjana. 7) The people will be interested in stealing the wealth of others 8) people will admire the person who exposes himself/herself, as the highly knowledgeable and spiritualistic follows religious practices. 9) People who speak lies and sarcastic would be considered as virtuous and smart. 10) The people who have no discipline, completely forbidden the rules prescribed in Veda, would be considered as Vairagin and Gnani in the Kali era, 11) the person with the long nails, beard, and matted hair locks would be treated as Thapasvi.  12) In the Kali era, people will be interested in getting dressed in horrific clothes, ornaments, etc. eat the worst meals which are prohibited, and expose themselves as Yogi and Mahashreshta. 13) People will take great pleasure in putting others in trouble, enjoys physical and verbal abuse, they engage all those awful deeds and conflicts with their mind, deed, and words. Oh! Prabho, 14) the woman folks would make the men dance to their tunes, and take complete control over them, like the person who performs magic with a monkey on the streets.  15)Shudras advise the Bhramana, and they adorn sacred thread and receives all those charities shamelessly.16) The humans are lustful and greedy, they speak ill of deities, Veda, scriptures, Bhramins, and ascetics.  17) The unfortunate women leave their wedded husband, who is virtuous and handsome, chase after Parapurusha/strangers. 18)Sumangalis/chaste women will find it difficult to wear good clothes or ornaments due to poverty; the widows dress up in various sparkling clothes. 19) The preceptor and disciple would live like a deaf and blind. The preceptor who takes away the wealth of the disciple and did not work to remove the suffering or sorrows of his disciple would throw to hell. 20) The child will be taught the Dharma to earn wealth and how to feed their craving body by their parents.  21)The men and women speak more about Bhramagnana, but are not free from greed or desires, will be ready to kill the Bhramin and preceptors for money.  22)Shudra enter the debate with the Bhramin, make all efforts to prove them as Bhramagnani, deserve to perform all the Vedic rites, and pass sarcastic comment on the twice-born. Oh! Pakshiraja, 23) I have seen several atrocities in the Kali era, men will have illicit relationships, deceitful, selfish and take pleasure in verbal and physical abuses, and make promises on Bhramam, these people are self-destroyed and ruin the virtuous as well. Whoever speaks ill about Veda would take several births and undergo various hellish tortures.24) The people from the lowly clans, engaged in various heinous deeds like crushing seeds for oil, potter, Kiratha, Kola, etc. after losing their wives adopt Sanyasa and claim to worship by the twice-born, these kinds of people would bring grief in Ihaloka and Paraloka as well.  25) The twice-born would be interested in material welfare, worldly matters, illiterate, lustful, undisciplined, dull-minded, get married to the infamous woman of Shudra clan. 26) The Shudras engages in the pious deeds, Japa, Tapa, Vratha, and take a seat on the raised platforms to recite the scriptures.  27)The people in the Kaliera perform deeds as they feel good and comfortable, follow various traditions. Oh! Pakshiraja, I cannot describe those atrocities in words.”

 

Sage Kakabhushundi continues “ Oh! Harivahana, 28) In the Kali era there will be Jathisangara/inter-caste marriages to a great extend, everyone breaks the code of conduct and living, and accumulate sins, therefore, Dhukha/grief, Bhayam/fear, Vyadhi/illnesses, Shoka/depression, Viyoga/pain of separation, will be their permanent companions, 29) people will be soaked in material matters, and bondage, leave all the Vedic way of living, will not have Virakthi or Viveka or devotion to Lord Hari, follow their own way of traditions.  30)The Sannyasins will not have a sense of Virakthi, fill their homes with all the modern amenities and take comfort in it, therefore fall prey for material matters, Oh! Garuda,  31)Thapasvi get wealthier and the Grihasthas will become poor, the abnormal living of the Kali era is endless. 32)The men abandon their beautiful and virtuous wife for a callous woman as their partner and leave all the Sadhacharas.  33) The men love and respect their parents until they get married, eventually, they get new relations with the wedded wife and forget their parents and siblings, and treat them as enemies. 34) The Kings will not follow righteousness, they engage in sinful deeds, they take pleasure cruelty to the people, and the innocent get grilled. 35) The wealthiest achieve respect in the society, the twice-born recognize with their sacred thread across the chest, and Thapasvi will be recognized with their naked bodies.  36)The people who discard Veda and sacred scriptures will be known as Sadhu and devotee of Srihari, there will be endless poets, but very less will get recognition. 37) There will be several people to point out one’s mistake and criticize, there will no virtuous. 38) The Kali era will be troubled with repeated natural calamities, famine and epidemics, and poverty would kill a huge number of people.