In plain words
Such a sight met Dharmarāja's eyes one day at the close of the Dvāpara age. At once he called his brothers together. “Bhīma! Arjuna! Nakula and Sahadeva! The Kali age has begun. Yesterday, as I went about the city, I saw a woman come up and talk with a man. I cannot bear to see such immoral conduct,” he said. Another day Arjuna came and said, “This evening I saw a farmer going home from his field with the ploughshare, the plough that tills the land, all these, on his head. ‘Why are you carrying these off, my man? Could you not leave them in the field and go?’ someone asked, and: ‘Oh no, sir, that cannot be done; if I leave these in the field, some thieves or other make off with them. That is why I am taking them home,’ he said. Someone else was seen locking her house and going out. ‘Why lock it, mother?’ someone asked, and she said, ‘If I do not lock it, someone gets into the house and takes the things away.’” The Kali age has begun. That is why all these evil signs are seen.
In Rāma's time, locking houses, carrying home the tools left in the fields, men and women gathering in the streets to chat: no such things used to happen. It is through the sway of Kali alone that all such things began. “The Kali age has begun, so let all of us now depart,” the Pāṇḍavas decided, and they went to Vaikuṇṭha. The Pāṇḍavas were men who led a sacred life. It is through such holy souls that Bhārata won its name as a sacred land. But today such sacredness has waned. Yet it is not that sacredness is absent. But it is not there for all to see. Dharma alone protects all. So men and women alike must safeguard Dharma. For this we must keep the mind pure and steady. We must give no room to wild, foolish thoughts.
Ahalyā was a woman of great virtue. Even so, she had to bear her husband's curse. Her husband cursed her: ‘Lie there as a stone.’ Then by the grace of Rāma alone she was freed from the curse. The moment the touch of Rāma's foot fell on it, the stone turned into Ahalyā. What is impure, God makes pure. Even what is defiled, God makes clean. However many bad feelings arise in the mind, if we think of God, all that defilement is wiped away. For everything, it is our own mind that is the cause. Women and men alike must foster sacred feelings. They must make the heart pure. Only then will humanness stand as humanness; otherwise it turns into demonness.
(Bhagavān brought His divine discourse to a close with the song ‘Rāma Rāma Rāma Rāma Sītā...’)