[O God Krishna! In the coming time of Kali age, justice will suffer in the worldly life and even God will be neglected in the spiritual life. This negligence towards God is seen even in the case of sages born as Gopikas, who neglected You and complained to Yashoda about Your stealing butter in spite of clearly knowing that You are the ultimate God. What is the basic reason for the failure of worldly life as well as spiritual life of souls in the coming Kali age?]

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Uvāca:-
[God Shri Krishna spoke:-]

[O Goddess Radha! The three strongest worldly bonds called ‘Eṣaṇā trayam’ (bond with spouse, bond with children and bond with money and wealth) are the main reasons. Even among these three strongest worldly bonds, the bond with children is the root reason of the three main root reasons.]

[The money and wealth are inert items and are not at all required if any other lively bond that has become lovely bond is absent. For the maintenance of self, very very little wealth is sufficient. Among the two lively and lovely bonds called spouse and children, the bond with children is stronger than the bond with spouse. The reason is that the love on the spouse-bond is not destroyed, but merges with the bond with children making the latter bond doubly strong.]

[All these Gopikas have attended this Rāsa-dance neglecting their spouse-bonds. This means that even without old age, the spouse-bond is very weak because these Gopikas neglected their spouse-bonds even in the youth, which means that the spouse-bond becomes weak and defeated even in youth if a more beautiful person is seen (Gopikas ran to the Rāsa-dance since Krishna is very beautiful). But, these Gopikas were defeated by the bond with the children because even after knowing that I am God, they complained to My mother Yashoda for stealing little butter from their houses, which was preserved for their children. The bond with children is very strong by itself without any other external reason. This is the strongest of all the three strongest worldly bonds. This bond with children exists in heart, which is the place of love representing Anāhata Cakra (meaning that this bond is not beaten by anybody so far).

[Among the lively-lovely worldly bonds, already we have told that the bond with children is the strongest bond, which should be mainly tested. Hence, money is earned mainly for the sake of this bond with children only. When the bond with money is also merging with the bond with child, the bond with children becomes stronger than itself, which is strongest bond. It becomes a double bond. This double bond becomes triple bond when the bond with spouse disappears in the old age and merges with the bond with child. Therefore, people are earning money even by destroying justice and doing any type of sin in the process of earning money for the sake of their children of future generations also.]

[In the coming Kali age, only three worldly bonds exist in any house. The bonds with mother, father, spiritual preacher (Guru) and God don’t exist even in an atom sized space of any house. The three worldly bonds are like the trident (Triśūlam), which is used by kings to punish the sinners. The sinner is pierced by the trident and is hanged on the trident till death. Every human soul in the coming Kali age is like that sinner pierced by this trident of three worldly bonds.]