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They will become intoxicated with arrogance and devoid of knowledge of what is beneficial and what is harmful. (61)
Many will be thieves and plunderers of others' wives on this earth.
Those intoxicated ones will not consider the impure origins original: "pāpayoni" of their actions. (62)
Due to the vice of excessive drinking, many will become sickly on this earth.
Deprived of energy, lacking intelligence, and with broken senses. (63)
In lakes, pits, wildernesses, and from palaces or mountains,
Humans, overwhelmed by intoxication, will fall and die. (64)
Some will quarrel with their teachers and their own kin.
Some will be silent like the dead, while others will be great chatterers. (65)
They will be wrongdoers, cruel, and destroyers of the path of Dharma.
O Lord, the rituals that You have spoken of for the welfare [of humanity]! (66)
I believe, O Mahadeva the Great God, Shiva, they are the opposite for humans.
Who will perform the yoga union/spiritual practice, or who will perform the various nyasa ritual placement of mantras on the body? (67)
The recitation of hymns, the writing of yantras mystical diagrams, the preparatory rites purashcharana mantra repetition and associated rituals, O Lord of the World!
Due to the influence of the nature of the age meaning the Kali Yuga, humans in the Kali age, (68)
Will be extremely wicked and sinful in every way.
O Lord of the destitute, please tell me the remedy for them, O Lord! (69)
The commentary clarifies: "Plunderers of others' wives" refers to those who cause the downfall of others' wives. "Thieves" are robbers. (62) "Lakes" are repositories of deep water. "Wilderness" is a path far from a village, devoid of trees and vines. (63-64) "Teachers" refers to fathers and others. (65) "Silent" means those who say nothing at all. "Yoga" refers to the imposition of mudras ritual gestures and other elements of physical worship used in Tantra. "Preparatory rites" refers to purashcharana. (66-68)