In Kali-yuga, if you have no money, then you will not be able to get justice.

Caught Out by System Failure

Good money after bad

In Kali-yuga, if you have no money, then you will not be able to get justice. As soon as you go to the court, immediately you'll have to appoint a pleader and pay him at least seventy-five rupees and then stamp duty, this and that, so many thingsÑthen bribe. Then bribe. You give bribe to this man, you give bribe to that man. Suppose you actually want some money from somebody. He has taken money, he is not paying, or something else. So you have to push good money after bad money. So money which is due from othersÑhe is not payingÑthat has become a bad money. Good money means which is in your hand. That is good money. And if you are simply speculating that "I shall get this money from that person. I shall get this money from...," that is bad money. So there is an English proverb, perhaps you know all, "To push good money after bad money." So therefore sometimes intelligent persons, they do not go to the court because he knows that money which is not being paid... Before entering into agreement you should be very clever so that your money may not be bad money which you are advancing. But if somehow or other it has become bad money, don't try to put good money. Let that bad money go to hell. So better nowadays not to go to the court as far as possible. But you should deal with people in such a way... Just like I was advising you, just find out a respectable transporter, because the time is very bad. Otherwise it will become a bad money. You go for cheap thing, that "He will carry my goods free," but he will throw it away. Somebody will take away. Then your whole profit is gone. You should be very careful. And if you have to go to court, then it is still more bad. You see? So we have to be very careful. The age is very bad, the Kali-yuga. You are experiencing. We have to simply take shelter of Krishna and always cry,

krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, he!
krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, he!
krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, raksha mam!
krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, pahi mam!
krishna, keshava, krishna, keshava, krishna, keshava, raksha mam!
rama raghava, rama raghava, rama raghava, pahi mam!

Like that, as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu taught us. The time is very dangerous. And still, in this dangerous time... Just like in epidemic condition where every people is being contaminated and dying, still, the doctors appointed by the government, they have to go into the epidemic area and try to treat the person and save them. Our duty is like that. The whole atmosphere is epidemic, whole atmosphere, this Kali-yuga. And still, by the superior orders we have to preach this Krishna consciousness movement. Therefore our only shelter is Krishna. Krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, krishna, raksha mam. Very dangerous position. The foolish people, they are thinking that "We are very happy and we are very safe." But nobody is safe. Nobody is safe. So we have to deal with persons very carefully, and at the same time, we have to push our missionary activities.

So they are saying, dharma-drisham sabham, sabha, sabham adharmah sprishate: "If in the court of justice these false things are bribing and without money nobody can get justice, these things happen, it becomes very troublesome."

aho kashtam dharma-drisham
adharmah sprishate sabham
yatradandyeshv apapeshu
dando yair dhriyate vritha

"If the people who are administering justice, they become irreligious, impious, oh, how troublesome situation!" is the first acclamation. Then he says,

prajanam pitaro ye ca
shastarah sadhavah samah
yadi syat teshu vaishamyam
kam yanti sharanam prajah

"The citizens, they are just like innocent children, and the government is to be supposed as the father. So small children, they are completely dependent on father with full faith: 'My father is there. My mother is there.' And if the father and mother become contaminated, then where is the position of the children?" If the whole government is polluted, then what is the position of the citizens? Just see. There is so-called government, millions of rupees they are spending and taking salary, government house, but the praja [citizens], they have no security for their life income. Just see the position. So that is said here. Prajanam pitaro ye ca shastarah sadhavah samah. How impartial they should be, how competent they should be to give protection to the citizens. And if they are polluted, if they are incapable and such government is there, then what is the condition of the citizens? Where they will go for protection? That is the position now. This is called Kali-yuga. They have no other shelter. Now, these people are so frightened of their life and property; still, they cannot go to the... But it will happen in this age. Due to this rascal government people will be so much embarrassed that they will be separated from their wife, children, and money, and they will go to the forest. This will happen. They will go to the forest. Nobody wants to leave the company of wife, children, and property, but people will be forced.