A little-known fact is that a book written over five thousand years ago-- Srimad-Bhagavatam--predicted many current trends and events with amazing accuracy.

Srimad-Bhagavatam's twelfth canto prophesies:

"Religious principles will be determined by a show of strength [and] measured by a person's reputation for material accomplishments."

"Those without money will be unable to get justice, and anyone who can cleverly juggle words will be considered a scholar."

"With each day religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, forgiveness, mercy, duration of life, bodily strength, and memory will all decrease more and more by the mighty force of time." (Srimad-Bhagavatam 12.2.1)

With the progress of this age [Kali-yuga], dharma, religious principles; satyam, truthfulness; saucam, cleanliness; ksama, forgiveness; daya, mercifulness; ayuh, duration of life; balam, bodily strength; smrti, memory--these eight things will gradually decrease to nil or almost nil.

Another symptom of the Kali-yuga predicted in the Srimad-Bhagavatam is the decrease in memory (smrti)

Another symptom of Kali-yuga is the decrease in religion.

Another symptom is vittam eva kalau nrnam janmacara-gunodayah: "In Kali-yuga, a man's qualities and social position will be calculated according to the extent of his wealth." (Srimad-Bhagavatam 12.2.2)

Another symptom of Kali-yuga: dharma-nyaya-vyavasthayam karanam balam eva hi. "Religious principles and justice will be determined by a show of strength." (Srimad-Bhagavatam 12.2.2)

The relationship between husband and wife will depend on abhiruci, their liking each other, not deep understanding.

The next symptoms of this age are stritve pumstve ca hi ratir vipratve sutram eva hi: "A husband and wife will stay together only as long as there is sex attraction, and brahmanas [saintly intellectuals] will be known only by their wearing a two cent thread."

Another symptom of Kali-yuga is avrttya nyaya-daurbalyam panditye capalam vacah: "Those without money will be unable to get justice, and anyone who can cleverly juggle words will be considered a scholar." (Srimad-Bhagavatam 12.2.4)

Next Srimad-Bhagavatam says, "Poverty will be looked on as dishonorable, while a hypocrite who can put on a show will be thought pious. (Srimad-Bhagavatam 12.2.5)

Another symptom is dure vary-ayanam tirtham lavanyam kesa-dharanam: "Just going to some faraway river will be considered a proper pilgrimage, and a man will think he is beautiful if he has long hair." (Srimad-Bhagavatam 12.2.6)

The next symptoms are: "The purpose of life will consist simply of filling one's stomach, and audacity will become equivalent to conclusive truth. Religiosity will be measured by a person's reputation for material accomplishments." (Srimad-Bhagavatam 12.2.6)

The next symptom is satyatve dharstyam eva hi: Anyone who is expert at word jugglery will be considered very truthful.

Another symptom, daksyam kutumba-bharanam: One shall be considered very expert if he can maintain his family--his wife and children. In other words, this will become very difficult. In fact, it has already become difficult. To maintain a wife and two children is now a great burden. Therefore no one wants to marry.

The next verse describes what will happen when all the people have been thus infected by the poison of Kali-yuga. It won't matter whether one is a brahmana [a learned and pure intellectual] or a ksatriya [an administrator or soldier] or a vaisya [a merchant or farmer] or a sudra [a laborer] or a candala [a dog-eater]. If one is powerful in getting votes, he will occupy the presidential or royal post. Anyone who can get your votes by hook or crook can occupy the post of leader. He may be rascal number one, but he will be given the supreme, exalted presidential post.

The Bhagavatam describes these leaders in the next verse: "The citizens will be so oppressed by merciless rogues in the guise of rulers that they will give up their spouses and property and flee to the hills and forests." So, the men who acquire a government post by vote are mostly lubdhai rajanyaih, greedy government men. Nirghrnair dasyu: Their business is plundering the public. And we actually see that every year the government men are exacting heavy taxes, and whatever money is received they divide among themselves, while the citizens' condition remains the same. Every government is doing that. Gradually, all people will feel so much harassed that acchinna-dara-dravinah: They will want to give up their family life (their wife and their money) and go to the forest.(Srimad-Bhagavatam 12.2.8)

Another symptom of Kali-yuga: Mothers will kill their children in the womb.

The next symptom of this age: Cows and other animals will sent to slaughterhouses merely for the satisfaction of the tongue.

The Srimad-Bhagavatam then goes on to state that the righteous men of this age should combine together to counteract these symptoms.

Comments

[bill doe]

yes they SHOULD combine together. but when false ego cannot be overcome then such combination proves troublesome at best and dangerous at worst