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Last but not least in interest should be the description of the state of things in Bharata in the penultimate phase of the present downward moving time cycle contained in this volume when humans will be indistinguishable from nonhumans, when life will hardly be worth living and when climate will be extreme on the side of severity. We have similar gloomy picture about the future in other religious texts as well, both oriental (Srimad Bhāgavat) and occidental (Bible), which clearly means that all the glitter of present day civilisation is not only going to last, but surely it is not going to transplant humanity in greater bliss. The reader is left to himself to consider what value he should give to it and what lesson he should derive from it.
