Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 12.3.30

yadā māyānritam tandrā

nidrā himsā vishādanam

śoka-mohau bhayam dainyam

sa kalis tāmasah smritah

SYNONYMS

yadā — when; māyā — deceit; anritam — false speech; tandrā — sloth; nidrā — sleep and intoxication; himsā — violence; vishādanam — depression; śoka — lamentation; mohau — and delusion; bhayam — fear; dainyam — poverty; sah — that; kalih — the age of Kali; tāmasah — in the mode of ignorance; smritah — 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.

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