Married women appear without any ornaments while widows make a parade of their new jewels every day. The guru and the pupil are of no more account than the blind and the deaf; the pupil would not listen, the guru has no insight.

The guru who robs his pupil of monkey but fails to rid him of his trouble is cast into a terrible hell. Parents call their children together and teach them the duty of filling their belly.

(In their extreme hypocrisy) they talk only about spiritual wisdom, never about anything else, and are greedy enough to murder a Brahman or a guru to gain a cowrie.

Shudras dispute with Brahmans, “Are we inferior to you? A good Brahman is he who knows the truth of Brahma!” thus do they defiantly glower at them.

Those who are covetous of their neighbours’ wives, clever at wiles and steeped in delusion, malice and selfishness are enlightened men swearing by the identity of the individual soul with Brahma. Such is the practice I have seen in every Kaliyuga.

Eternally lost themselves, such people drag down those rare souls who tread the path of virtue. Aeon after aeon are those condemned to each abyss of hell who criticize and find fault with the Vedas.

People of the lowest castes – oilmen, potters, Chandals (dog-eaters), Kiratas, Kols, distillers – shave their heads and turn religious mendicants when their wives die or they lose their household goods.