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were systematically distorted by the onslaught of the age of Kali, as the walls of the paddy field and distortion are offered by atheistic philosophers who are concerned only with eating, drinking, being merry, and all against the revealed scriptures because such persons are intimately attached to sense pleasures and Some of them propose that life is ultimately to be annihilated and that only the material energy is conserved And still others equate spirit and matter and declare the distinction between them to be illusory.

Śrīla Vyāsadeva divided the original Veda into four divisions, namely Sāma, Atharva, Ṛg, and Yajur. Then he divided the same Vedas into eighteen Purāṇas (supplements) and the Mahābhārata, and then again

Fierce torrents of rain break over the strands and the partition walls of the paddy field.

Vaiśeṣikas, the Saguṇists, the empiricists, the Pāśupata Śaivas, the Saguṇa Śaivas, the Brāhmas, the Aryas, and accord with any principle devoid of an eternal relation with God, attainment of His devotional service, and