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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Human society is becoming so degraded that they are trying to forget God. That is their advancement of civilization. The more you deny existence of God and become a so-called rascal scientist, then you are advanced. This is the position. So this position will degrade so much after, say, 400,000's of years, gradually degrading, that at time, Kṛṣṇa will come in His incarnation as Kalki.
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So different animals in different species of life, they have got one type of consciousness very strong. Just like you can see the vultures—it is a low-graded animal—but it goes four miles above the earth and it can see where is a dead body. You cannot do that. You cannot see even twenty yards after. But the animal, another animal, the vulture, he can see . . . from four miles away he can find out where there is a dead body. So this consciousness of eating, sleeping, mating and defending, that is common. In one animal, or . . . it is very strong. In another man, animal, it is not so strong. But this consciousness is there. But this God consciousness is not there except in human being.

So the human society is becoming so degraded that they are trying to forget God. That is their advancement of civilization. The more you deny existence of God and become a so-called rascal scientist, then you are advanced. This is the position. So this position will degrade so much after, say, 400,000's of years, gradually degrading, that at time, Kṛṣṇa will come in His incarnation as Kalki. At that time the Kalki's business will be simply to kill. That's all. No more. No more preaching of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Simply kill them. That is Kalki ''avatāra''.

That Kalki ''avatāra'' is given the father's name. This is called ''śāstra''. This is called scripture. Four hundred thousand's after, 400,000's of years after, Kalki will come. Now, His father's name is given there. Just like Lord Buddha's mother's name is there. So you cannot imitate that, "I am Kalki ''avatāra''." You have to give evidence, what is your father's name. Just see. This is called ''śāstra''. Any rascal comes, "Oh, I am Kṛṣṇa. I am this ''avatāra'' and that ''avatāra''," but where is the evidence from the ''śāstra''?

We cannot accept. Just like any gentleman comes, we want to see the credential. Just like in politics, when some ambassador comes to a new country, then he has to officially present his credential so that he will be accepted that, "This gentleman is representative of such-and-such country." That is nice. Unless you give credentials, identity, how I can accept you?

So . . . but people have become rascal. Anyone comes, he says that, "I am incarnation of God," because the people are rascals, they accept another rascal. But if you follow the ''śāstras'' and scriptures, then there you will find all the ''avatāras'', their credentials are there—what is the father's name, what is the name of the place he takes birth or appears, what is his business. So . . . what is the time. Everything is given there. So why should you be misled?

So we accept incarnation of God when all the descriptions are corroborated in terms of the authorized ''śāstra''. Otherwise we reject. That is our business. So in this verse . . . why we accept Vedic scripture as solid truth? Because there is no mistake. Otherwise, how it is predicting that ''yuga-sandhyāyām'', "In the last conjunction of the ''yugas'', there will appear the Lord"? ''Kalkir nāmnā. Nāmnā kalkiḥ''. "His name will be Kalki. But He is not ordinary person." ''Nāmnā kalkir jagat-patiḥ''. "He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is not ordinary man. And His father's name is . . ." ''janitā viṣṇu-yaśaso'': "His father's name will be Viṣṇu Yaśi."

The Yaśi title are there in India still. One Mr. Yaśi (pronounced Joshi) corresponds with us. So the Josha, or Joshi, this title is already there. So they are ''Brāhmins''. Here, all the descriptions are not there, but in other place, all the descriptions are there. Not only His father's name, His village, or the place, Sambhal. There is still a place Sambhalpur in India. So everything is there. We should not be misled that "Here is another ''avatāra'', here is another ''avatāra'', here is . . . so many ''avatāras''." No.

So this is called ''śāstra'': what will happen after 400,000's of years, that is mentioned. Future. Just like Lord Buddha's name was there. ''Bhaviṣyati yuga-sandhyāyām. Bhaviṣyati.'' ''Bhaviṣyati'' means, "He will come." He was not visible. This is ''śāstra''. ''Śāstra'' means ''tri-kāla-jña''. The writer of ''śāstra'' should be a full cognizant of past, present and future. That is called unmistakable. Past, present and future. Kṛṣṇa says in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' that, "I know past, present and future."