Through (universal) sin the Vedas disappear, and with them all the duties laid down in them, as also the duties of the four imodes of life. They who follow the duties, of their own order become afflicted, and all mobile and immobile objects suffer a change for the worse.
अधर्मान्तर्हिता वेदा वेदधर्मास्तथाऽऽश्रमाः। विक्रियन्ते स्वधर्मस्थाः स्थावराणि चराणि च॥