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usurping by the authorities and there will be disorder everywhere. Situation in every country and state will be uncertain. It will be common to find disturbances at home, and even family members will have a sense of mutual mistrust. People will behave like enemies to others instead of being cooperative and helping. People will develop feelings of disrespect and disregard for teachers instead of devotion and faith. Teachers too, instead of imparting knowledge and righteous teachings will, by their own uncontrolled behaviour, produce feelings in their students of independence and self-praise which will lead to a sense of vanity even in religious matters. There will be a sense of disobedience in place of love between father and son. Women will have les of modesty; at the same time their interest in fun and laughter, amorous play and garrulousness will increase, and as a result, seeing god will only be a matter of mere
talk."
"By the time the fifth rends, the monk-female-monk and laymanlaywoman order will almost die out. At the end of the fifth r there will only remain the four-fold order of Duh prasaha c rya, female-monk Falgu r , votaries N gila and Satya r. Vimalav hana will be the last king of Bh rata and the last minister, Sumukha. Human being's body will be two-hands of height, and the life span will be twenty years. The greatest fast will be that of bel (a habhakta). c rya Duh prasaha will instruct the four-fold order until the end. In the end when he will tell them that the samgha (order) is no more; he will be excommunicated from the order. He will remain a householder for twelve years and after being a monk for eight years, observing a fast unto death completing his life will become a god in Saudharmakalpa. On the day of the end of the fifth
raka Ga adharma, c ritradharma and r jadharma (duties of a ruler) and fire (agni) will be lost from their roots in Bharata region."
“After the end of the fifth raka, will commence the sixth; named Du am - Du ama. Its time-span is 29,000 years and in this time destruction will be at its prime. There will be havoc, fear and chaos in all ten directions. There will always be fearsome storms and winds of great speed blowing everything away. Because of these winds, the whole atmosphere will be filled with dust envelop in darkness. Due to the impact of the time, there will be an unimaginable increase in the Sun's heat and the Moon's coolness. There will be untimely rains and leaving the high mountains the earth will gradually be still. The earth will burn like fire because of the heat. People will not be able to work nor even
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