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How Parīkṣit Received the Age of Kali
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PURPORT
In the age of Kali, the women and the children, along with  brāhmaṇas  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  brāhmaṇas  are traditionally intelligent men, and thus they will be able to pick up modern education to the top-most 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  brāhmaṇas  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  śāstras . The  brāhmaṇas  are specifically restricted in 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.
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किं क्षत्रबन्धून् कलिनोपमृष्टान् राष्ट्राणि वा तैरवरोपितानि । इतस्ततो वाशनपानवासः- स्नानव्यवायोन्मुखजीवलोकम् ॥२२॥
kim kṣatra-bandhūn kalinopasṛṣṭān rāṣṭrāṇi vā tair avaropitāni itas tato vāśana-pāna-vāsaḥ snāna-vyavāyonmukha-jīva-lokam
kim —whether;  kṣatra-bandhūn —the unworthy administrators;  kalinā —by the influence of the age of Kali;  upasṛṣṭān —bewildered;  rāṣṭrāṇi —state affairs;  vā —or;  taiḥ —by them;  avaropitāni —put into disorder;  itaḥ —here;