Malevolent by nature, they covet others’ wives and wealth and take delight in slandering others. Such vile and sinful men are fiends in human form.

Covetousness of their dress and covetousness their bed (they wallow in greed); they are addicted to lechery and gluttony and have no fear of punishment in the abode of Death. If they ever hear anyone exalted, they heave deep sights as though they had an attack of ague.

But when they see anyone in distress, they rejoice as though they had been made kings of the world. Devoted to their own selfish interests, hostile to their kinsfolk, dissolute, avaricious and most irascible,

They recognize neither mother nor father nor guru nor Brahmans; utterly ruined themselves, they bring ruin upon others. Overcome by infatuation, they bear malice to others and take no pleasure in the fellowship of saints nor in the stories of Hari.

Oceans of immorality, dull of understanding and lascivious, they revile the Vedas and usurp others’ wealth. Though bearing malice to the Brahmans, they are enemies of the gods in particular; and full of hypocrisy and treachery in their hearts, they outwardly wear a saintly appearance.

Such vile and wicked men are not to be found in the Satya or theTretayuga; a sprinkling of them will appear in the Dvapara, but in the Kaliyuga there will be swarms of them.

Brother, there is no religious duty like benevolence, no sin like oppressing others. I have declared to you, dear brother, the verdict of all the Vedas and the Puranas, and the learned also know it.