Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 1.2–Degradation of Kaliyuga
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2019-09-14

This series is classified Viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda | Bhakti-yoga | Svapna | Anāhata-cakra
Now the sinful Kali Age is upon them, when dharma is destroyed, an Age full of evil customs and deceit. Men pursue evil ways. The Vedas have lost their power, the smṛtis are forgotten, and many of the Purāṇas, which contain stories of the past, and show the many ways which lead to liberation, will, O Lord! be destroyed. 
Men will become averse to religious rites, without restraint, maddened with pride, ever given over to sinful acts, lustful, gluttonous, cruel, heartless, harsh of speech, deceitful, short-lived, poverty-stricken, harassed by sickness and sorrow, ugly, feeble, low, stupid, mean, and addicted to mean habits, companions of the base, thievish, calumnious, malicious, quarrelsome, depraved, cowards, and ever-ailing, devoid of all sense of shame and sin and of fear to seduce the wives of others. Vipras will live like the Śudras, and whilst neglecting their own sandhyā will yet officiate at the sacrifices of the low. 
They will be greedy, given over to wicked and sinful acts, liars, insolent, ignorant, deceitful, mere hangers-on of others, the sellers of their daughters, degraded, averse to all tapas and vrata. They will be heretics, impostors, and think themselves wise. They will be without faith or devotion, and will do japa and pūjā with no other end than to dupe the people. They will eat unclean food and follow evil customs, they will serve and eat the food of the Śudras and lust after low women, and will be wicked and ready to barter for money even their own wives to the low. In short, the only sign that they are brāhmaṇas will be the thread they wear. Observing no rule in eating or drinking or in other matters, scoffing at the dharma Scriptures, no thought of pious speech ever so much as entering their minds, they will be but bent upon the injury of the good (37-50).
By Thee also have been composed for the good and liberation of men the Tantras, a mass of Āgamas and Nigamas, which bestow both enjoyment and liberation, containing mantras and yantras and rules as to the sādhana of both Devīs and Devas. By Thee, too, have been described many forms of nyāsa, such as those called sṛṣṭi, sthiti and sanghara. By Thee, again, have been described the various seated positions (of yoga), such as that of the bound and loosened lotus, the paśu, vīra and divya classes of men, as also the Devatā, who gives success in the use of each of the mantras (50-52). 
And yet again it is Thou Who hast made known in a thousand ways rites relating to the worship with woman, and the rites which are done with the use of skulls, a corpse, or when seated on a funeral pyre (53). By Thee, too, have been forbidden both paśu-bhava and divya-bhava. If in this Age the paśu-bhava cannot exist, how can there be divya-bhava? (54). For the paśu must collect leaves, flowers, fruits, and water with his own hand, and should not look at a Śudra or even think of a woman (55). 
On the other hand, the divya is all but a Deva, ever pure of heart, and to whom all opposites are alike, free from attachment to worldly things, the same to all creatures and forgiving (56). How can men with the taint of this Age upon them, who are ever of restless mind, prone to sleep and sloth, attain to purity of disposition? (57). By Thee, too, have been spoken the rites of vīra-sādhana, relating to the pañca-tattva – namely, wine, meat, fish, parched grain, and sexual union of man and woman (58-59). 
But since the men of the Kali Age are full of greed, lust and gluttony, they will on that account neglect sādhana and will fall into sin, and having drunk much wine for the sake of the pleasure of the senses, will become mad with intoxication, and bereft of all notion of right and wrong (61). Some will violate the wives of others, others will become rogues, and some, in the indiscriminating rage of lust, will go with any woman, whoever she be (62). Overeating and drinking will disease many and deprive them of strength and sense. Disordered by madness, they will meet death, falling into lakes, pits, or in impenetrable forests, or from hills or housetops (63-64). 
O Lord of the World! who will practice yoga or nyāsa, who will sing the hymns, draw the yantra and make puraścaraṇa? (68). Under the influences of the Kali Age man will become indeed of wicked nature and bound to all manner of sin (69).

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