This land of Bharat has given birth to many noble women like Savitri who brought her dead husband back to life; Chandramati who extinguished wild fire with the power of truth; Sita who proved her chastity by coming out of the blazing fire unscathed and Damayanti who reduced an evil-minded hunter to ashes with the power of her chastity. This land of piety and nobility attained plenty and prosperity and became the teacher of all the nations of the world because of such women of chastity.

The noblest quality of chastity is unique to the culture of Bharat. You don’t find it any where else in the world. In those days, whenever the men came across women, they used to move on bending their heads in reverence to them. But, today both women and men stand in the middle of the road, gossiping. At the fag end of the Dwapara Yuga, Dharamaraja witnessed such a scene one day. He felt very unhappy and immediately called for a meeting of his brothers. He expressed his anguish to them thus: ‘Oh!Bhima!Arjuna!Nakula!Sahadeva! The Kali Yuga (age of Kali) has begun. Yesterday while I was taking a stroll in the city, I saw a woman talking to a man in public. I am sorry I cannot bear witness to such immoral behaviour.’ On another day, his younger brother Arjuna narrated another incident, ‘Today, I saw a farmer returning from his field carrying his plough on his head. I asked him why he was carrying it, as he could have left it in the field itself while returning to his house. He replied, ‘Alas! Swami! It cannot be left there. If I leave the plough in the field itself, the thieves may take it away. Hence, every day I am taking it home and bringing it next day to the field.’ On another day the Pandava brothers noticed some woman locking the door of her house before going out. On enquiry, the woman replied, ‘If I don’t lock the house, someone will enter the house and carry away our articles.’ All these were signs heralding the advent of Kali age. (SSS Vol.39, p. 243)