Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 12.3.30
Ūti· What drives us to actIgnorance Turns Attention Away From Self-Realization
“When there is a predominance of cheating, lying, sloth, sleepiness, violence, depression, lamentation, bewilderment, fear and poverty, that age is Kali, the age of the mode of ignorance.”
What the purport teaches
- Kali is the age in which ignorance predominates, with cheating, lying, sloth, sleepiness and violence.
- The translation also describes depression, lamentation, bewilderment, fear and poverty as prominent features of this age.
- The purport explains that people become almost exclusively devoted to gross materialism, with hardly any affinity for self-realization.
Try this today
Use five minutes normally spent on material distractions for reading about self-realization.
Ask yourself
How much room does your daily routine leave for self-realization?
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.