ŚB 12.3.30
Devanagari
यदा मायानृतं तन्द्रा निद्रा हिंसा विषादनम् ।
शोकमोहौ भयं दैन्यं स कलिस्तामस: स्मृत: ॥ ३० ॥
शोकमोहौ भयं दैन्यं स कलिस्तामस: स्मृत: ॥ ३० ॥
Verse text
yadā māyānṛtaṁ tandrā
nidrā hiṁsā viṣādanam
śoka-mohau bhayaṁ dainyaṁ
sa kalis tāmasaḥ smṛtaḥ
nidrā hiṁsā viṣādanam
śoka-mohau bhayaṁ dainyaṁ
sa kalis tāmasaḥ smṛtaḥ
Synonyms
yadā — when; māyā — deceit; anṛtam — false speech; tandrā — sloth; nidrā — sleep and intoxication; hiṁsā — violence; viṣādanam — depression; śoka — lamentation; mohau — and delusion; bhayam — fear; dainyam — poverty; saḥ — that; kaliḥ — the Age of Kali; tāmasaḥ — in the mode of ignorance; smṛtaḥ — is considered.
Translation
When there is a predominance of cheating, lying, sloth, sleepiness, violence, depression, lamentation, bewilderment, fear and poverty, that age is Kali, the age of the mode of ignorance.
Purport
In Kali-yuga, people are almost exclusively devoted to gross materialism, with hardly any affinity for self-realization.