Shloka 63
Adhyaya 40: Kali-yuga Lakshana, Yuga-sandhyamsha, and the Re-emergence of Dharma
बेहविओउर् ओफ़् पेओप्ले दुरिन्ग् युगान्त स्थितास्वल्पावशिष्टासु प्रजास्विह क्वचित्क्वचित् अप्रग्रहास्ततस्ता वै लोभाविष्टास्तु कृत्स्नशः
behaviour of people during yugānta sthitāsvalpāvaśiṣṭāsu prajāsviha kvacitkvacit apragrahāstatastā vai lobhāviṣṭāstu kṛtsnaśaḥ
En el tiempo del yugānta, cuando sólo queda un pequeño remanente de seres, la gente aquí y allá pierde el dominio de sí; entonces, poseída por completo por la codicia, actúa sin gobierno interior. En ese desorden atado por el pasha, el pashu (alma) olvida al Pati (Śiva) y es arrastrado por las ataduras del deseo.
Suta Goswami (narrating to the Sages at Naimisharanya)
FAQs
It frames yugānta as a time when pashas (bondages) like lobha dominate; Linga-worship is implied as the corrective—returning the pashu to remembrance of Pati (Śiva) through restraint, devotion, and inner purification.
By contrast: when beings lose restraint, they fall under pasha; Śiva-tattva stands as Pati—the sovereign principle beyond greed and compulsion—toward whom discipline and worship reorient the soul.
The verse highlights the need for pragraha (self-restraint), a core prerequisite for Pāśupata-oriented sādhanā—ethical control, sense-governance, and steady worship that weakens lobha as a binding pasha.