Text 37] Scheduled Incarnations with Specific Functions
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forts of the body is activity in the mode of ignorance according to the laws of material nature. Real advancement of knowledge means progress of knowledge in self-realization. But in the age of Kali the less intelligent men mistakenly consider the short lifetime of one hundred years (now factually reduced to about forty or sixty years) to be all in all. They are less intelligent because they have no information of the eternity of life, and they identify with the temporary material body existing for forty years and consider it the only basic principle of life. Such persons are described as equal to the asses and bulls. But the Lord, as the compassionate father of all living beings, imparts unto them the vast Vedic knowledge in short treatises like the  Bhagavad-gītā  and, for the graduates, the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . The  Purāṇas  and the  Mahābhārata  are also similarly made by Vyāsadeva for the different types of men in the modes of material nature. But none of them are independent of the Vedic principles.
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देवद्विषां निगमवर्त्मनि निष्ठितानां 
    पूर्मिर्मयेन विहिताभिरदृश्यतूर्मिः । 
    लोकान् घृतां मतिविमोहमतिप्रलोभं 
    वेषं विधाय बहु भाष्यत औपधर्म्यम् ॥ ३७ ॥
deva-dviṣām—of those who were envious of the devotees of the Lord; 
    nigama—the Vedas; vartmani—on the path of; niṣṭhitānām—of the well 
    situated; pūrbhiḥ—by rockets; mayena—made by the great scientist Maya; 
    lokān ghnatām mati-vimoham atipralobham 
    veṣam vidhāya bahu bhāṣyata aupadharmyam
deva-dviṣām—of those who were envious of the devotees of the Lord; 
    nigama—the Vedas; vartmani—on the path of; niṣṭhitānām—of the well 
    situated; pūrbhiḥ—by rockets; mayena—made by the great scientist Maya; 
    vihitābhiḥ—made by; adrṣya-tūrbhiḥ—unseen in the sky; lokān—the differ- 
    ent planets; ghnatām—of the killers; mati-vimoham—bewilderment of the 
    mind; atipralobham—very attractive; veṣam—dress; vidhāya—having done 
    so; bahu bhāṣyate—would talk very much; aupadharmyam—subreligious 
    principles.