Prabhupāda: Leather dress. Leather was specially used for shoes. Now they have become dress—advancement of civilization. Has become coat. You see? Iti manyate. The Bengali verse is, piśācī pāile yena mati-cchanna haya. Just like ghost-haunted person, he talks so many nonsense things, similarly:
- piśācī pāile yena mati-cchanna haya
- māyā-grasta jīvera haya se bhāva udaya
- (Prema-vivarta 1)
Māyā-grasta, those who are too much materially covered, they are thinking, "This is nice. This is nice. This is nice." In Kali-yuga it is said, lāvaṇyaṁ keśa-dhāraṇam (SB 12.2.6). Keśa-dhāraṇam. When I did not come to your country, I was thinking, "What is that keśa-dhāraṇam?" But as soon as I came to your country I saw the hippies—big, big hair. Keśa-dhāraṇam. Keśa, keśa means hair. (chuckles) It is predicted.
Just see. This is śāstra. "In the Kali-yuga people will think very . . . think themselves of very beautiful feature by keeping long hairs." That is stated. This is called śāstra. Five thousand years ago, Bhāgavata was written, and there the symptoms of Kali-yuga are mentioned, and this is one of the symptoms, lāvaṇyaṁ keśa-dhāraṇam.
In the Twelfth Canto you will find this description, svīkāra eva hi udvāhe—all these predictions are there. "Marriage will be done simply by agreement." Now it is . . . just see. It is being done. Svīkāra eva. Svīkāra means agreement: "I accept you." No actual marriage ceremony is performed. Practically marriage is going out of date. So these symptoms are there. Dāmpatye ratim eva hi. Husband and wife relations will be stronger if there is sex power. That's all. Otherwise divorce. Just see the symptoms. Dāmpatye ratim . . .
Sūtratam . . . sūtrate . . . vipra. Vipratve sūtra-dhāraṇam: a brahmin means having a piece of thread, that's all. Vipratve sūtra-dhāraṇam. And only two-paisa worth sūtra will . . . just like in India: "Oh, I am brahmin because I have got this thread." That's all. Vipratve sūtra-dhāraṇam. Anardhena nyāya-rahitam: "If you have no money, then you cannot get justice." If you are poor man, then you will never get justice. You see? First of all, if you want to get some money . . . somebody, he is not paying. You have to go to court.
So first of all the pleader will charge, "Give me so much money." Then stamp charges, then percentage of stamp charges. Suppose you are claiming $5,000. Then you have to five percent . . . so, so many thousand dollars you have to pay for stamp charges to claim, to push good money after bad money. The money which is not being realized, that is bad money. Now you have to push further good money to realize that bad money. So if you have no good money to push, then you cannot get even that bad money. And that also will be pending for years together. Unless you bribe the clerks and the bench clerk and others, "Please get my case swiftly in . . ." So he will ask money, bribe.
So anyway, then Bhāgavata says, anadhena nyāya ratim: "If you have no money, then don't expect justice. Don't expect justice." Even high-court judges, they take bribe to give you favorable judgment. In India we have seen so many bribe. Police, you give bribe; high-court judge, you can give bribe. This is the position of Kali-yuga, horrible position. The king or the so-called president is simply showbottle. If you approach . . . you cannot approach. Formerly, if anyone was ill-treated, injustified, then he could go, similarly, in front of the king.