Kali Yuga, the
consciousness of lower chakras, decadence & desires
From: "jagbir singh" <www.adishakti.org@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:22 am
Subject: Kali Yuga, the consciousness of lower
chakras, decadence & desires
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Description of the Age of Kali (the consciousness of
lower chakras
decadence & desires)
In the fourteenth chapter of the last canto of the "Paramahamsa
Samhita" portion of the Vayu Purana, named "Sri Gauranga
Candra
Udaya", Lord Brahma prays to the Supreme Lord Sri Hari
thus:
"In the age of Kali, people are spontaneously attracted
to sinful
activities and are devoid of the regulations of the
scriptures. The
so-called "twice-born" are degraded by their low-class
activities and
those who are born in low-class families are alway s
hostile to
brahminical culture. The twice-born are low-class by
quality and do
business by selling mantras. These so-called learned men
are
absorbed in their intestines and genitals and their only
identification is the thread they wear. Indulging in
overeating,
absorbed in bodily consciousness, lazy, intellectually
dull and
greedy for others properties, they are consistantly
against God-
consciousness. Due to being overly inclined towards
false paths
without essence, they manufacture their own processes
for self-
realisation. Neglecting their actual duties they are
expert in
blaspheming You (the Supreme Personality of Godhead) and
the saintly
persons; hence again Mother Earth is in tears due to
this burden.
Therefore, Oh Lord of the Universe, destroyer of the
miseries of the
destitute, please mercifully do what is befitting for
the protection
of the Earth and the living entities."
"The very day and moment the Personality of Godhead,
Lord Sri Krsna,
left this earth, the personality of Kali, who promotes
all kinds of
irreligious activities, came into this world." (Srimad-Bhagavatam
1.18.6)
"O learned one, in this iron age of Kali men have but
short lives.
They are quarrelsome, lazy, misguided, unlucky and,
above all, always
disturbed." (Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.1.10)
Foreseeing the incompetencies of the people in this age
of Kali or
the iron age of quarrel, great sages and saintly people
throughout
the ages have sort to benefit the general mass of people
by
revealing to them the knowledge contained in the
scriptures, whereby
they may attain relief from the inflictions of this most
degraded
and dangerous of all ages.
Elaborate description of the anomolies of Kali-yuga and
the plight
of the living entities is given in the Srimad Bhagavatam.
Therein it
is described how as the sun rose and after taking his
morning
ablutions in the waters of the Sarasvati, Vyasadeva sat
alone to
concentrate.
"The great sage Vyasadeva saw anomilies in the duties of
the
millennium. This happens on the earth in different ages,
due to
unseen forces in the course of time. The great sage, who
was fully
equipped in knowledge, could see, through his
transcendental vision,
the deterioration of everything material, due to the
influence of
the age. He could also see that the faithless people in
general
would be reduced in duration of life and would be
impatient due to
lack of goodness. Thus he contemplated for the welf are
of men in
all statuses and orders of life." (Srimad-Bhagavatam
1.4.16-18)...
With the progress of the age of Kali, four things
particularly,
namely the duration of life, mercy, the power of
recollection, and
moral or religious principles will gradually diminish.
Since Dharma,
or the principles of religion, would be lost in the
proportion of
three out of four, the symbolic bull is standing on one
leg only.
When three fourths of the whole world become
irreligious, the
situation is converted into hell for the animals. In the
age of
Kali, godless civilizations will create so many
so-called religious
societies in which the Personality of Godhead will be
directly or
indirectly defied. And thus faithless societies of men
will make the
world uninhabitable for the saner section of people....
In this age of Kali, the women and the children, along
with the
brahmanas and cows, will be grossly neglected and left
unprotected.
In this age illicit connection with women will render
many women and
children uncared for. Circumstantially, the women will
try to become
independent of the protection of men, and marriage will
be performed
as a matter of formal agreement between man and woman.
In most cases
the children will not be taken care of properly. The
brahmanas are
traditionally intelligent men, and thus they will be
able to pick up
modern education to the topmost rank, but as far as
moral and
religious principles are concerned, they shall be the
most fallen.
Education and bad character go ill together, but such
things will
run parallel. The administrative heads as a class will
condemn the
tenets of Vedic wisdom and will prefer to conduct a
so-called
secular state, and the so-called educated brahmanas will
be
purchased by such unscrupulous administrators. Even a
philosopher
and writer of many books on religious principles may
also accept an
exalted post in a government which denies all the moral
codes of the
sastras. The brahmanas are specifically restricted from
accepting
such service. But in this age they will not only accept
service, but
they will do so even if it is of the meanest quality.
These are some
of the symptoms of the Kali age which are harmful to the
general
welfare of human society.
In this age, people are indulging in the necessities of
life,
eating, sleeping, defending and mating, without
following the rules
and regulations, and this deterioration of social and
moral rules is
certainly lamentable because of the harmful effects of
such beastly
behavior. In this age, the fathers and the guardians are
not happy
with the behavior of their wards. They should know that
so many
innocent children are victims of bad association awarded
by the
influence of this age of Kali. In this age of Kali the
poor innocent
students are daily victims of cinemas which attract men
only for sex
indulgence.
Nowadays, men without proper training by culture and
tradition are
promoted to exalted posts by the votes of the people who
are
themselves fallen in the rules and regulations of life.
How can such
people select a proper man when they are themselves
fallen in the
standard of life? Therefore, by the influence of the age
of Kali,
everywhere, politically, socially or religiously,
everything is
topsy-turvy, and therefore for the sane man it is most
regrettable.
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 1:16:19-22).
In the twelth canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam Srila
Sukadeva Goswami
relates how after the thorough degradation of the
brahminical and
administrative classes these and other symptoms of Kali-yuga
increase to an intolerable level.
"Sukadeva Goswami 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. In Kali-yuga, wealth alone
will be
considered a 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. 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 brahmana
just by
his wearing a thread. A person's spiritual position will
be
ascertained merely according to external symbols, and on
the same
basis people will change from one spiritual order to the
next. A
person's propriety will be seriously questioned if he
does not earn
a good living. And one who is very clever at juggling
words will be
considered a learned scholar. 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. 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.
As the earth becomes crowded with a corrupt population,
whoever
among any of the social classes shows himself to be the
strongest
will gain political power. 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. Harassed by famine and excessive taxes, people
will resort
to eating leaves, roots, flesh, wild honey, fruits,
flowers and
seeds. Struck by drought, they will become completely
ruined. 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. The maximum duration of life for
human beings in
Kali-yuga will become fifty years.
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 varnasrama 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
theives, the
occupations of men will be stealing, lying and needless
violence,
and all the social classes will be reduced to the lowest
level of
sudras. 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. Most
plants and herbs
will be tiny, and all trees will appear like dwarf sami
trees.
Clouds will be full of lightning, homes will be devoid
of piety, and
all human beings will have become like asses. 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." (Srimad-Bhagavatam 12.2.1-16)
"In the age of Kali only one fourth of the religious
principles
remains. That last remnant will continuously be
decreased by the
ever-increasing principles of irreligion and will
finally be
destroyed.
In the age of Kali people tend to be greedy, ill-behaved
and
merciless, and they fight one another without good
reason.
Unfortunate and obsessed with material desires, the
people of Kali-
yuga are almost all sudras and barbarians. 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. 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.
Cities will be dominated by theives, 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. The
brahmacaris will fail to execute their vows and become
generally
unclean, the householders will become beggars, the varn
aprasthas
will live in the villages, and the sannyasis will become
greedy for
wealth.
Women 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 speak harshly and will exhibit
qualities of
theivery, deceit and unrestrained audacity.
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. 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.
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. 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.
In the age of Kali, people's minds will always be
agitated. They
will become emanciated 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.
In Kali-yuga men will develop hatred for each other even
over a few
coins. Giving up friendly relations, they will be ready
to lose
their own lives and kill even their own relatives. 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." (Srimad-Bhagavatam
12.3.24-
42).
Description of the Age of Kali (the consciousness of
lower chakras
decadence & desires)
http://www.hindunet.org/alt_hindu/1995_Mar_1/msg00067.html
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