The Darker Ages Give Base Nature an Ever Larger Crowd
Uttara Kanda, Doha 40
Doha 40 · Movement 2 of 2
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Rama places these destructive dispositions within the descent of the ages. Such degraded people did not appear in Krita Yuga or Treta Yuga.
A few became visible in Dvapara. In Kali Yuga, their numbers will multiply into great companies, making what was once exceptional appear ordinary through sheer repetition.
The Doha does not soften its forecast. Time changes the moral climate in which tendencies gather and reinforce one another. Yet the warning itself becomes protection. A seeker who knows the current can refuse to drift with it, guarding company, attention, and conduct when the surrounding age makes harmful patterns plentiful. The crowd may grow, but discernment need not surrender its sight.
As the age darkens and harmful crowds multiply, Rama gives discernment as a lamp that need not follow the crowd.
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ऐसे अधम मनुज खल कृतजुग त्रेता नाहिं। द्वापर कछुक बृंद बहु होइहहिं कलिजुग माहिं।।40।।
Such low and wicked people did not exist in Satya Yuga or Treta. In Dvapara, there were some. In Kali Yuga, they will swarm in hordes. This is the trajectory of time: as ages decline, base natures multiply. Yet even in Kali, Rama's name remains the refuge.