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This is the symptoms of Kali-yuga. The bare necessities of life will not be available. There is no protection

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"This is the symptoms of Kali-yuga. The bare necessities of life will not be available. There is no protection"

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Simply for political reasons, some innocent people, lakhs of innocent people, are being killed. This is the symptoms of Kali-yuga. The bare necessities of life will not be available. There is no protection.

Dharma-aviruddha. Dharma-aviruddha, the meaning of dharma-aviruddha: illegal, illicit, against the laws of God. Dharma means the laws of God, and anything against the laws of God, that is called dharmāviruddho, dharma-aviruddha. Dharma-viruddha and dharma-aviruddha. Yes. Viruddha means against, and aviruddha means not against; in favor.

So the bodily necessities of life . . . we eat, we require to eat, eating, and we require to sleep also, eating, sleeping. And sex life, that is also required for keeping the body fit. In Kali-yuga these four things, bare necessities of life: eating, sleeping, mating and defending Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca (Hitopadeśa 25). These are bare necessities of the body. That will be also in disorder in this age. People will have no sufficient food, no place to sleep, no mate to have sense enjoyment, and it will be defenseless. Just like we are seeing at the present moment innocent people of East Pakistan are being killed. Simply for political reasons, some innocent people, lakhs of innocent people, are being killed.

This is the symptoms of Kali-yuga. The bare necessities of life will not be available. There is no protection. In Calcutta there is no surety. When you go out on the street, there is no surety whether you will come back home at the present moment. Perhaps you all know. So there is no proper defense even, which is not refused to the animals. Why? Because everything is going on dharmāviruddha. They are going against the law, nature's law. We say "nature's law" or "God's law." Therefore so much mismanagement.

So here Kṛṣṇa specifically mentions dharma-aviruddha-kāma, sex impulse not against the law of God. What is that sex impulse against the law of God? The law of God is that sex life is required for progeny, for begetting children, not for sense enjoyment. Anyone who enjoys sex life for enjoyment, he is a śūdra or less than śūdra. That is the description in Vedic literature.

When Nārada Muni instructed Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja about householder's life, the householder's life, when they beget child, there is a ceremony which is called garbhādhāna-saṁskāra. Not that, "I am today very sexually agitated. I must have sex." No. Just like that Kardama Muni. Kardama Muni's wife, Devahūti . . . not Devahūti. Aditi or Diti? Hiraṇyakaśipu's mother?

Indian man: Kaśyapa Muni.

Prabhupāda: Kaśyapa Muni and Diti. Diti. The wife was very sexually agitated, and she requested the husband to have sexual intercourse. The husband said: "No. This is not the proper time." I am describing the story shortly. But the wife was too much agitated. So she obliged the husband to have sex life with her, and after sex life the Kaśyapa Muni said that "Your sons will be demons."

Indian man: Kaśyapa.

Prabhupāda: Kaśyapa, yes. So as a result of untimely sex life, two demons were born.

So there is regulation of sex life. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, dharma-aviruddha: sex life is sanctioned under certain conditions. That is humanity. Not like . . . even the cats' and dogs' life there is some limitation. They have got a period of sex life. Similarly, for gṛhastha, there is a period for sex life. After menstrual period, five days after menstrual period, one may have sex life for begetting children. And if the woman or wife is pregnant, then there is no more sex life till the child is born and six months old. These are the regulations.

Page Title:This is the symptoms of Kali-yuga. The bare necessities of life will not be available. There is no protection
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-10-13, 13:27:23
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