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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.15.36

యదా ముకున్దో భగవానిమాం మహీం జహౌ స్వతన్వా శ్రవణీయసత్కథ: । తదాహరేవాప్రతిబుద్ధచేతసా- మభద్రహేతు: కలిరన్వవర్తత ॥ ౩౬ ॥
yadā mukundo bhagavān imāṁ mahīṁ
[yadaa mukundo bhagavaan imaam maheem]
jahau sva-tanvā śravaṇīya-sat-kathaḥ
[jahau sva-tanvaa shravaneeya-sat-kathah]
tadāhar evāpratibuddha-cetasām
[tadaahar evaapratibuddha-chetasaam]
abhadra-hetuḥ kalir anvavartata
[abhadra-hetuh kalir anvavartata]
yadā — when mukundaḥ — Lord Kṛṣṇa bhagavān — the Personality of Godhead imām — this mahīm — earth jahau — left sva-tanvā — with His selfsame body śravaṇīya-sat-kathaḥ — hearing about Him is worthwhile tadā — at that time ahaḥ eva — from the very day aprati-buddha-cetasām — of those whose minds are not sufficiently developed abhadra-hetuh — cause of all ill fortune kaliḥ anvavartata — Kali fully manifested.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
yadā mukundo bhagavān imāṁ mahīṁ
yadā
when
mukundaḥ
Lord Kṛṣṇa
bhagavān
the Personality of Godhead
imām
this
mahīm
earth
jahau sva-tanvā śravaṇīya-sat-kathaḥ
jahau
left
sva-tanvā
with His selfsame body
śravaṇīya-sat-kathaḥ
hearing about Him is worthwhile
tadāhar evāpratibuddha-cetasām
tadā
at that time
ahaḥ eva
from the very day
aprati-buddha-cetasām
of those whose minds are not sufficiently developed
abhadra-hetuḥ kalir anvavartata
abhadra-hetuh
cause of all ill fortune
kaliḥ anvavartata
Kali fully manifested.
When the Personality of Godhead, Lord Kṛṣṇa, left this earthly planet in His selfsame form, from that very day Kali, who had already partially appeared, became fully manifest to create inauspicious conditions for those who are endowed with a poor fund of knowledge.

The influence of Kali can be enforced only upon those who are not fully developed in God consciousness. One can neutralize the effects of Kali by keeping oneself fully under the supreme care of the Personality of Godhead. The Age of Kali ensued just after the Battle of Kurukṣetra, but it could not exert its influence because of the presence of the Lord. The Lord, however, left this earthly planet in His own transcendental body, and as soon as He left, the symptoms of the Kali-yuga, as were envisioned by Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira prior to Arjuna’s arrival from Dvārakā, began to manifest, and Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira rightly conjectured on the departure of the Lord from the earth. As we have already explained, the Lord left our sight just as when the sun sets it is out of our sight.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
When Lord Mukunda, whose topics are worthy of hearing, left this earth by means of his spiritual body, from that day onwards Kali, the cause of inauspiciousness, entered those whose intelligence was sleeping.
Commentary

This verse clarifies the condition of his giving up his body. “When he left with his body (sva-tanvā)” means according to Śrīdhara Svāmī “leaving to Vaikuṇṭha with his body.” He gave up the earth by means of his body. It does not mean “He gave the earth along with his body.” That is a wrong interpretation, because of the rule upapada-vibhakteḥ kāraka-vibhaktir balīyasī: instrumental meaning of inflection is stronger than the meaning “accompanying.”

pradarśyātapta-tapasām avitṛpta-dṛśāṁ nṛṇām ādāyāntar adhād yas tu sva-bimbaṁ loka-locanam The Lord, having shown his form, the center of attraction for all eyes, then took that form and disappeared from the men, who had not performed austerities but had attained the Lord's mercy, and were continually craving a vision of his form. SB 3.2.11

In this verse after showing his form (sva-bimbam) to the eyes of the world, he again withdrew it and disappeared. The verse does not say he gave up a body. The Kṛṣṇa-sandarbha makes this point. From that moment onwards (tadāhaḥ), Kali entered those with sleeping intelligence. Kali did not affect those who had discrimination. The thief steals wealth from a sleeping person, but is afraid to steal from someone awake.

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