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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
<< Canto 12, The Age of Deterioration >> << 3 - The Bhūmi-gītā >>
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yadā māyānṛtaṁ tandrā nidrā hiṁsā viṣādanam śoka-mohau bhayaṁ dainyaṁ sa kalis tāmasaḥ smṛtaḥ
WORD BY WORD
TRANSLATION
| 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.
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PURPORT
| In Kali-yuga, people are almost exclusively devoted to gross materialism, with hardly any affinity for self-realization.
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