Text 33] Punishment and Reward of Kali 913

tvam—you; vartamanam—while present; nara-deva—a man-god, or a
king; dehesu—in the body; anupravrttah—beginning all over; ayam—all
these; adharma—irreligious principles; pugah—in the masses; lobhah—
greed; anrtam—falsity; cauryam—robbery; anaryam—incivility; amhah—
treachery; jyestha— misfortune; ca- and; maya—cheating; kalahah— quarrel;
ca—and; dambhah—vanity.

TRANSLATION

If the personality of Kali or irreligion is allowed to act as a man-god
or an executive head, certainly irreligious principles like greed, falsehood,
robbery, incivility, treachery, misfortune, cheating, quarrel and vanity will

abound.
PURPORT

The principles of religion, namely austerity, cleanliness, mercy and
truthfulness, as we have already discussed, may be followed by the follower
of any faith. There is no need of turning the coat of a Hindu to Mo-
hammedan to Christian or some other faith and thus become a renegade
without following the principles of religion. The Bhagavatam religion urges
following the principles of religion. The principles of religion are not the
dogmas or regulative principles of a certain faith. Such regulative principles
may be different in terms of the time and place concerned. One has to see
whether the aims of religion have been achieved. Sticking to the dogmas
and formulas without attaining the real principles is no good. A secular
state may be impartial to any particular type of faith, but the state cannot
be indifferent to the principles of religion as above mentioned. But in the
age of Kali, the executive heads of state will be indifferent to such religious
principles, and therefore under their patronage the opponents of religious
principles, namely greed, falsehood, cheating, pilfery, etc., will naturally
follow, and so there is no meaning in a propaganda crying to stop cor-
ruption in the state.

TEXT 33

a affaed = acadaet
wig aaa aq afaad|
wad wa qatta az

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