Kali-yuga, people are suffering. They’re all fallens, all meat-eaters, all drunkards, all fifth-grade, sixth-grade men. They are puffed-up, but actually they are fifth-, sixth- and tenth-grade men, not even gentlemen. Therefore my Guru Maharaja used to say that “No gentleman can live here. The society is so polluted.”

But there is opportunity of serving Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Because the society is so fallen, therefore there is good opportunity to serve Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Because Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s incarnation is to reclaim these fallen souls. So you have got the opportunity to serve Sri Caitanya, to please Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, because He wanted the fallen souls to be delivered.

From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.5.23 — August 4, 1974, Vrndavana