Divine wisdom foretold Kali-yuga's chaos; only God consciousness can restore humanity's fallen condition.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation about Twelfth Canto, Kali-yuga — June 15, 1974, Paris 740615R1-PARIS [78:08 Minutes] Conv_740615R1-PARIS Prabhupāda: The democracy also is described, in Kali-yuga.
Prabhupāda: In Twelfth Canto. [pause] [break] ...it is stated, tasmāt kṣudra-dṛśo martyāḥ kṣudra-bhāgyā mahāśanāḥ kāmino vitta-hīnāś ca svairiṇyaś ca striyo 'satīḥ [SB 12.3.31] "Gradually people will become dwarf, will die very soon, mostly unfortunate, eating too much, and very much sexually agitated, no money, and independent, and the women, all unchaste." Just see. Everything's coming true. Rājan..., rājānaś ca prajā-bhakṣāḥ śiśnodara-parā dvijāḥ dasyūtkṛṣṭā janapadā vedāḥ pāṣaṇḍa-dūṣitāḥ [SB 12.3.32] "The cities will be full of rogues and thieves." Just see.
Yogeśvara: That's Paris. Prabhupāda: Anywhere. In Calcutta recently it was dangerous to go out because the next... You do not know whether you'll come back. People are so afraid.
He's going to work in the office. It will be God's grace if he returns back. It is such a city. Actually so happened.
We were sitting, I was at that time in a... I was guest in our Life Member's. Sitting in morning, at ten o'clock. "Oh, that gentleman is killed." He was very important businessman.
He went to the temple, a Marwari, and on his coming back, he was killed from the back side. Life is still so, but it is little diminished. [break] ...about so-called saintly persons, they are tapasvino grāma-vāsāḥ: "The so-called yogīs, they'll live in the town." [chuckles] Actually, the yogīs have no business in the town. They should go to a secluded place.
But they will live in... Just like the other... He's living in Paris City, and he's a yogī. Yogeśvara: This is all from the Twelfth Canto? Prabhupāda: Yes. Foretold, five thousand years ago.