Sunday, August 17, 2008

Characteristics of Men in Kali Yuga

Verse 1.1.10: Here the sages of Naimisharanya are feeling very compassionate towards the age of Kali. This verse of the Srimad Bhagavatam described the degradation happening as Kaliyuga is progressing.
The life span is reducing, quarrels for petty things, the people in general are misguided (leaders don't rule based on the scriptures, out of their selfish needs, people are misguided), people do not get genuine spirituality, above all mind of the people in Kaliyuga is very disturbed and with such an disturbed mind, self realization cannot happen.

But there is one very good quality of Kaliyuga: Chanting of the Holy Name of Krishna. In Satya Yuga, people had to penance for thousands of years, in Treta Yuga, big big Vedic sacrifices had to be performed to attain self realization, in Dvapara Yuga, elaborate Deity worship had to be performed, but in Kali Yuga, it was all made very very simple. Chanting is the simplest process, simply by chanting Hare Krishna, one gets to easily get out of this material world and attain to his spiritual status.

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