Adhyaya 26

Jaimini asks Vyāsa how people will act when the harsh age of Kali arrives. Vyāsa contrasts Satya-yuga—truthfulness, compassion, health, and worship of Nārāyaṇa—with the steady decline through Tretā and Dvāpara, culminating in Kali’s moral inversion: lust, cruelty, hypocrisy, theft, association with heretics, and confusion of social duties and roles. The teaching then turns from diagnosis to remedy: though Kali is dreadful, spiritual fruits become swiftly attainable, especially through Hari’s Name (Hari-nāma) and by offering all actions, performed with devotion, to Mahāviṣṇu. The phalaśruti concludes that reciting, hearing, writing, or worshiping this instruction destroys accumulated sins and grants desired aims and liberation by the grace of Śrī’s Lord.