Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 14

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TRANSLATION

Are you feeling compunction for the unhappy women and children who are left

forlorn by unscrupulous persons? Or are you unhappy because the goddess of

learning is being handled by brahmanas addicted to acts against the

principles of religion? Or are you sorry to see that the brahmanas have

taken shelter of administrative families that do not respect brahminical

culture?

 

PURPORT

In the age of Kali, the women and the children, along with brahmanas and

cows, will be grossly neglected and left unprotected. In this age illicit

connection with women will render many women and children uncared for.

Circumstantially, the women will try to become independent of the protection

of men, and marriage will be performed as a matter of formal agreement

between man and woman. In most cases, the children will not be taken care of

properly. The brahmanas are traditionally intelligent men, and thus they

will be able to pick up modern education to the topmost rank, but as far as

moral and religious principles are concerned, they shall be the most fallen.

Education and bad character go ill together, but such things will run

parallel. The administrative heads as a class will condemn the tenets of

Vedic wisdom and will prefer to conduct a so-called secular state, and the

so-called educated brahmanas will be purchased by such unscrupulous

administrators. Even a philosopher and writer of many books on religious

principles may also accept an exalted post in a government which denies all

the moral codes of the sastras. The brahmanas are specifically restricted

from accepting such service. But in this age they will not only accept

service, but they will do so even if it is of the meanest quality. These are

some of the symptoms of the Kali age which are harmful to the general

welfare of human society.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 1.16.21