An excerpt from Vishnu Purana
Wealth and piety will decrease day by day until the world will be wholly depraved. Then property alone will confer rank; wealth will be the only source of devotion; passion will be the sole bond of union between the sexes; falsehood will be the only means of success in litigation; and women will be objects merely of sensual gratification. Earth will be venerated but for its mineral treasures; . . . dishonesty will be the universal means of subsistence; weakness will be the cause of dependence; menace and presumption will be substituted for learning; liberality will be devotion; simple ablution will be purification; mutual assent will be marriage; fine clothes will be dignity; and water afar off will be esteemed a holy spring.
Every text will be a scripture that people choose to think so: all gods will be gods to them that worship them . . . fasting, austerity, liberality, practised according to the pleasure of those by whom they are observed, will constitute righteousness. Pride of wealth will be inspired by very insignificant possessions. Pride of beauty will be prompted by (no other personal charm than fine) hair. . . .Wives will desert their husbands, when they lose their property; and they only who are wealthy will be considered by women as their lords. He who gives away much money will be the master of men; and family descent will no longer be a title of supremacy. Accumulated treasures will be expended on (ostentatious) dwellings. The minds of men will be wholly occupied in acquiring wealth; and wealth will be spent solely on selfish gratifications. Women will follow their inclinations, and be ever fond of pleasure. Men will fix their desires upon riches, even though dishonestly acquired. No man will part with the smallest fraction of the smallest coin, though entreated by a friend.
[1] Vishnu Purana, A system of Indian Mythology and Tradition, Wilson's translation, Vol.II, Delchi, Nag Publications, 1980, Book IV, ch.XXIV,p.p.662-
[2] Vishnu Purana, Book IV, ch. XXIV, Wilson, p.p. 867-68, in Secret Doctrine, HPBlavatsky, Vol.I, p.p.377-381
