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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 1]
ākrāntā bhūri-bhāreṇa brahmāṇam śaraṇam yayau
bhūmiḥ—mother earth; dṛpta—puffed up; nṛpa-vyāja—posing as kings, or the supreme power personified in the state; daitya—of demons; anika—of military phalanxes of soldiers; śata-ayutaiḥ—unlimitedly, by many hundreds of thousands; ākrāntā—being overburdened; bhūri-bhāreṇa—by a burden of unnecessary fighting power; brahmāṇam—unto Lord Brahmā; śaraṇam—to take shelter; yayau—went.
TRANSLATION
Once when mother earth was overburdened by hundreds of thousands of military phalanxes of various conceited demons dressed like kings, she approached Lord Brahmā for relief.
PURPORT
When the world is overburdened by unnecessary military arrangements and when various demoniac kings are the executive heads of state, this burden causes the appearance of the Supreme Personality of God-head. As the Lord says in  Bhagavad-gītā  (4.7):
yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānam sṛjāmy aham
“Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time I appear Myself.” When the residents of this earth become atheistic and godless, they descend to the status of animals like dogs and hogs, and thus their only business is to bark among themselves. This is  dharmasya glāni , deviation from the goal of life. Human life is meant for attaining the highest perfection of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but when people are godless and the presidents or kings are unnecessarily puffed up with military power, their business is to fight and increase the military strength of