tasmÄt ká¹£udra-dṛśo martyÄḥ
ká¹£udra-bhÄgyÄ mahÄÅ›anÄḥ
kÄmino vitta-hÄ«nÄÅ› ca
svairiṇyaś ca striyo 'satīḥ
tasmÄt - due to these qualities of the age of Kali; ká¹£udra-dṛśaḥ - shortsighted; martyÄḥ - human beings; ká¹£udra-bhÄgyÄḥ - unfortunate; mahÄ-aÅ›anÄḥ - excessive in their eating habits; kÄminaḥ - full of lust; vitta-hÄ«nÄḥ - lacking wealth; ca - and; svairiṇyaḥ - independent in their social dealings; ca - and; striyaḥ - the women; asatīḥ - unchaste.
In the Age of Kali certain pseudointellectuals, seeking individual freedom, support sexual promiscuity. In fact, identification of the self with the body and the pursuit of “individual freedom†in the body rather than in the soul are signs of the most dismal ignorance and slavery to lust. When women are unchaste, many children are born out of wedlock as products of lust. These children grow up in psychologically unfavorable circumstances, and a neurotic, ignorant society arises. Symptoms of this are already manifest throughout the world.