Verse 26

²⁶Clarity, passion and darkness: these strands are seen in a person, and, set moving by time, they turn about within the self. ²⁷When the mind and the understanding and the senses come out strong in clarity, know that to be the Krta age, where the taste is for knowledge and for austerity. ²⁸When the love of those who wear bodies is for dharma, wealth and desire, then it is the Treta, whose working is passion. Know it so, wise one. ²⁹When there is greed and no contentment, pride and show and envy, and works still done with a wish, that is the Dvapara: passion and darkness together. ³⁰When there is trickery and lying, dullness, sleep, harm and misery, grief and confusion, fear and wretchedness, that is remembered as the Kali, which is darkness.