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Continued from page 63 family for generations. Cows will be _ friendly relations, they will be ready to lose abandoned or killed when they stop giving _ their own lives and kill even their own rela- will freely wander from one man to the next. milk. tives. Men will no longer protect their elderly Cities will be dominated by thieves, the "In Kali-yuga, men will be wretched and parents, their children or their respectable Vedas will be contaminated by speculative controlled by women. They will reject their wives. Thoroughly degraded, they will care interpretations of atheists, political leaders fathers, brothers, other relatives and friends —_gnly to satisfy their own bellies and genitals. will virtually consume the citizens, and the and will instead associate with the sisters and "O King, in the Age of Kali, people's intel- so-called priests and intellectuals will be _ brothers of their wives. Thus their conception _Jigence will be diverted by atheism, and they devotees of their bellies and genitals. The _ of friendship will be based exclusively on Brahmacharins will fail to execute their vows _ sexual ties. Uncultured men will accept chari- and become generally unclean, the house- _ ty on behalf of the Lord and will earn their holders will become beggars, the _ livelihood by making a show of austerity and Vanaprasthas will live in the villages, and the wearing a mendicant's dress. Those who Sannyasins will become greedy for wealth. now nothing about religion will mount a "Women become much smaller in size, and _ high seat and presume to speak on religious they will eat too much, have more children _ principles. than they can properly take care of, and lose "In the Age of Kali, people's minds will all shyness. They will speak harshly and will always be agitated. They will become exhibit qualities of thievery, deceit and emaciated by famine and taxation, my dear unrestrained audacity. King, and will always be disturbed by fear of "Businessmen will engage in petty drought. They will lack adequate clothing, 7° °' ‘ commerce and earn their money by cheating. food and drink, will be unable to rest fruitive work and achieve the supreme desti- Even when there is no emergency, people will _ properly, have sex or bathe themselves, and ation. But still, people in the Age of Kali consider any degraded occupation quite will have no ornaments to decorate their _ Will not worship the Supreme Lord." will almost never offer sacrifice to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the supreme spiritual master of the Universe. Although the great personalities who control the three worlds all bow down to the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, the petty and miserable human beings of this age will not do so. "Terrified, about to die, a man collapses on his bed. Although his voice is faltering and he is hardly conscious of what he is saying, if he utters the holy name of the Supreme Lord he can be freed from the reaction of his acceptable. Servants will abandon a master _ bodies. In fact, the people of Kali-yuga will — Srimad Bhagavatam 12.3.24-44 who has lost his wealth, even if that master is gradually come to appear like ghostly, a saintly person of exemplary character. _ haunted creatures." (Source: from the IndiaDivine website at Masters will abandon an incapacitated "In Kali-yuga, men will develop hatred for http://www. indiadivine.org/predictions-kali- servant, even if that servant has been in the — each other, even over a few coins. Giving up —yugal.htm) NEXUS +77 Vedic Prophecies for the Kali-yuga Continued from page 63 OCTOBER —- NOVEMBER 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com