Varaha Purana 70.26: Adhyaya 70, Shloka 26
Nārāyaṇa as the Sacrificial Principle, Analysis of the Three Guṇas, and the Account of Delusion-Doctrines
कलौ मत्कृतमार्गेण बहुरूपेण तामसैः । इज्यते द्वेषबुद्ध्या स परमात्मा जनार्दनः ॥ ७०.२६ ॥
kalau matkṛtamārgeṇa bahurūpeṇa tāmasaiḥ | ijyate dveṣabuddhyā sa paramātmā janārdanaḥ || 70.26 ||
कलि युग में लोग जनार्दन की पूजा करते हैं। मैं उनके लिए रास्ता बना देता हूँ। वो लोग बहुत तरह से पूजा करते हैं। लेकिन उनके मन में बुराई होती है। वो लोग दूसरों से नफ़रत रखते हैं।
Varāha (default, consistent with the Varāha–Pṛthivī dialogue framework)
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It reflects a common Purāṇic motif: describing Kali-yuga as a period in which worship and social-religious practices may persist outwardly while being ethically compromised by negative dispositions such as hostility.
No geographic location is named in this verse fragment; it is primarily a moral-psychological description of worship in Kali-yuga.
The verse foregrounds internal disposition as ethically decisive: worship performed with dveṣa (hostility) is presented as a degraded mode of practice, regardless of external forms.
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