yadÄ mÄyÄná¹›taá¹ tandrÄ
nidrÄ hiá¹sÄ viá¹£Ädanam
Å›oka-mohau bhayaá¹ dainyaá¹
sa kalis tÄmasaḥ smá¹›taḥ
yadÄ - when; mÄyÄ - deceit; aná¹›tam - false speech; tandrÄ - sloth; nidrÄ - sleep and intoxication; hiá¹sÄ - violence; viá¹£Ädanam - depression; Å›oka - lamentation; mohau - and delusion; bhayam - fear; dainyam - poverty; saḥ - that; kaliḥ - the age of Kali; tÄmasaḥ - in the mode of ignorance; smá¹›taḥ - is considered.
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.
In Kali-yuga, people are almost exclusively devoted to gross materialism, with hardly any affinity for self-realization.
