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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.17.32
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 32
- tvāṁ vartamānaṁ nara-deva-deheṣv
- anupravṛtto 'yam adharma-pūgaḥ
- lobho 'nṛtaṁ cauryam anāryam aṁho
- jyeṣṭhā ca māyā kalahaś ca dambhaḥ
tvāmyou — you; vartamānamwhile present — while present; naraa man-god, or a king-devaa man-god, or a king — a man-god, or a king; deheṣuin the body — in the body; anupravṛttaḥtaking place everywhere — taking place everywhere; ayamall these — all these; adharmairreligious principles — irreligious principles; pūgaḥin the masses — in the masses; lobhaḥgreed — greed; anṛtamfalsity — falsity; cauryamrobbery — robbery; anāryamincivility — incivility; aṁhaḥtreachery — treachery; jyeṣṭhāmisfortune — misfortune; caand — and; māyācheating — cheating; kalahaḥquarrel — quarrel; caand — and; dambhaḥvanity — vanity.
If the personality of Kali, irreligion, is allowed to act as a man-god or an executive head, certainly irreligious principles like greed, falsehood, robbery, incivility, treachery, misfortune, cheating, quarrel and vanity will abound.
The principles of religion, namely austerity, cleanliness, mercy and truthfulness, as we have already discussed, may be followed by the follower of any faith. There is no need to turn from Hindu to Mohammedan to Christian or some other faith and thus become a renegade and not follow the principles of religion. The Bhāgavatam religion urges following the principles of religion. The principles of religion are not the dogmas or regulative principles of a certain faith. Such regulative principles may be different in terms of the time and place concerned. One has to see whether the aims of religion have been achieved. Sticking to the dogmas and formulas without attaining the real principles is not good. A secular state may be impartial to any particular type of faith, but the state cannot be indifferent to the principles of religion as above-mentioned. But in the age of Kali, the executive heads of state will be indifferent to such religious principles, and therefore under their patronage the opponents of religious principles, such as greed, falsehood, cheating and pilfery, will naturally follow, and so there will be no meaning to propaganda crying to stop corruption in the state.