kālasya ca gatiṁ raudrāṁ viparyastar tu dharmiṇaḥ pāpīyasīṁ nṛṇāṁ vārtāṁ krodha-lobhānṛtātmanām
Synonyms
kālasya—of the eternal time; ca—also; gatim—direction; raudrām—fearful; viparyastaḥ—discrepancies; tu—but; dharmiṇaḥ—specific function; pāpīyasīm—sinful; nṛṇām—of the human being; vārtām—means of livelihood; krodha—anger; lobha—greed; anṛta—falsehood; ātmanām—of the people.
Translation
He saw that direction of the eternal time had changed and it was very fearful. There was discrepancies in the seasonal regulations. The people in general had become too much greedy, angry and accustomed to falsehood. And he saw also that the people in general had adopted foul means of livelihood.
Purport
When civilization is disconnected with the loving relation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead the symptoms like change of seasonal regulations, man's foul means of livelihood, all becoming too much greedy angry, affinitive for falsehood, all become too much rampant. Change of seasonal regulation means atmosphere of one season being manifested in another season for example the rainy season transferred to automn or the fruits and flowers of one season becoming fructified in another season. A godless man is invariably a greedy, angry and accustomed to falsehood man. Such man can earn his livelihood by any means never mind black and white. During the reign of Maharaj Yudhisthir all the above symtoms were conspicuous by their absence. But Maharaj Yudhisthir was astonished to experience even a slight change in the godly atmosphere of his kingdom and at once he suspected disappearance of the Lord. Foul means of livelihood means deviation from one's occupational duty. There are prescribed duties for every one such as the Brahmin, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Sudras but any one of them who deviates from the prescribed duty and declares at the same to belong to the particular section it is called foul means of occupational duty. A man becomes too much greedy for wealth and power when he has no higher objective of life and when he knows only this earthly life for a few years is all in all. Ignorance is the cause for all these anomalies of the human society and to remove this ignorance of life specially in this age of degradation the powerful sun is there in the shape of Srimad Bhagwatam to distribute light.