Text 22] How Panksit Received the Age of Kali 861
PURPORT

In the age of Kali, the women and the children, along with 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 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 con-
demn 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 govern-
ment which denies all the moral codes of the sastras. The brahmanas 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.

TEXT 22

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MATA YEATAET — RR

kim ksatra-bandhun kalinopasrstan
rastrani va tair avaropitani

itas tato vasana-pana-vasah
snana-vyavayonmukha-jiva-lokam

kim—whether; ksatra-bandhtin—the unworthy administrators; kalina—
by the influence of the age of Kali; upasrstan—bewildered; rastrani—state
affairs; vd—or; taih—by them; avaropitani—put into disorder; itah—here;
