Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 12.3.24
Manvantara· The Manus and right dutyReligion’s Remaining Quarter Declines in Kali
“In the Age of Kali only one fourth of the religious principles remains. That last remnant will continuously be decreased by the ever-increasing principles of irreligion and will finally be destroyed.”
What the purport teaches
- In the Age of Kali, only one fourth of the religious principles remains.
- As irreligious principles increase, this remaining portion continuously decreases.
- The verse describes a decline that ends with the destruction of even that last remnant.
Try this today
Identify one religious principle you tend to neglect and make one deliberate effort to follow it today.
Ask yourself
Does this warning encourage me to take religious principles more seriously now?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
From Canto 10, chapter 14 onward, the translation and purports were completed by Śrīla Prabhupāda's disciples after his departure, and published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.