In Kali-yuga's ocean of faults, chanting Hare Krishna is the one supreme medicine that saves all.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.19 — January 15, 1974, Honolulu 740115SB-HONOLULU [37:34 Minutes] SB-01.16.19_740115SB-HONOLULU Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse] [devotees repeat] dharma uvāca kaccid bhadre 'nāmayam ātmanas te vicchāyāsi mlāyateṣan mukhena ālakṣaye bhavatīm antar-ādhiṁ dūre bandhuṁ śocasi kañcanāmba [SB 1.16.19] Prabhupāda: Yes. Go on. Pradyumna: Synonyms?
Prabhupāda: Hmm. Pradyumna: [leads chanting of synonyms] [break] [03:58] Translation: "Dharma, in the form of a bull, asked: Madam, are you not hale and hearty? Why are you covered with the shadow of grief? It appears by your face that you have become black.
Are you suffering from some internal disease, or are you thinking of some relative who is away in a far distant place?" Prabhupāda: You can read the purport; it's small. Pradyumna: Purport: "The people of the world in this age of Kali are always full of anxieties. Everyone is diseased with some kind of ailment. From the very faces of the people of this age, one can find out the index of the mind.
Everyone feels the absence of his relative who is away from home. The particular symptom of the age of Kali is that no family is now blessed to live together. To earn a livelihood, the father lives at a place far away from the son, or the wife lives far away from the husband, and so on. There are sufferings from internal diseases, separation from those near and dear, and anxieties for maintaining the status quo.
These are but some important factors which make the people of this age always unhappy." Prabhupāda: So this age of Kali, we have discussed in the previous verses, is very degraded age. In the beginning, there is Satya-yuga; and the next, Tretā-yuga; next, Dvāpara-yuga; and this is the Kali-yuga. The aggregate of all these four yugas is called yuga: sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ [Bg. 8.17]. The duration of Satya-yuga is 1,800,000's of years; and the next, Tretā-yuga, roughly 1,200,000's of years; and Dvāpara-yuga, 800,000's of years; and this Kali-yuga, 432,00..., 000's of years.
So we are in this Kali-yuga. In this Kali-yuga we have passed only 5,000 years. Out of 432,000's of years we have passed only 5,000. Since the Battle of Kurukṣetra, which took place 5,000 years ago, the Kali-yuga has begun. So this chapter is on the subject matter "How Parīkṣit Received the Age of Kali." We are studying this chapter at the present moment.
In Los Angeles we were studying, and again, after that, we are presenting. So Kali-yuga is not very good age; simply faults. We have several times discussed that in this age, people's duration of life, mercifulness, bodily strength and so many things, eight kinds of things, will be reduced. The age is reducing; the bodily strength is also reducing.