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• Thus the sinful are promoted as religious, and the saintly are decried as demonic.
• Psychological studies confirm that a child needs to be cared for by both his father and his mother, and thus it is obviously natural for sex to be accompanied by a permanent marriage arrangement.
• But in the Age of Kali, religious and even material formalities are thoughtlessly discarded.

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Civilizational dread → Dispassion. Social and cosmic impermanence expose the limits of worldly plans.

Chapters 1–4 of Canto 12: The deterioration of Kali and universal dissolution. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Chapter 2: The Symptoms of Kali-yuga

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All cows become like goats, all spiritual hermitages become like materialistic homes, and family ties extend no further than the immediate relationship of marriage. When the Age of Kali has almost ended, the Supreme Personality of Godhead will incarnate.