The influence of Kali is only binding on those who have not fully developed their awareness of God. It is therefore possible to neutralize its hold, while remaining entirely under the supreme protection of the Sovereign Lord. Kali's age had begun just after the Battle of Kurukṣetra, but he could not exercise his influence because of the presence of the Lord. The latter, however, came to leave the planet in his Absolute Spiritual Body, after which the features peculiar to the Kali Age began to appear.

The departure of the Lord means that He has simply disappeared from us, like the sun at sunset.

It is written, “Our Mother Earth, the Supreme Lord, Śrī Hari, descended into this world into the Person of Kṛiṣhṇa for the sole purpose of removing your heavy burden from you, and all the acts that He was able to accomplish in the surface of your body are purely spiritual, and pave the way for liberation. You are now deprived of his presence and, thinking of these activities, no doubt you suffer from being separated.”

The acts of the Lord are accomplished at a level where liberation is already an established fact, but it must be known that they provide greater pleasure than that of nirvaṇa, of liberation.

The Lord shows such great mercy that He descends into this world to alleviate the burden of the earth that has become too heavy. And the simple memory of these acts brings a joy that defies the one inherent to the nirvaṇa, and makes it possible to reach the absolute kingdom of the Lord, where one can live eternally at his side, absorbed in the delightful service of love offered to his Nobody.

The Lord himself and those around him lightened the burden of the earth; and his presence of Avatar on the surface of the globe, where he deposited his footprints very favorable, conferred on the world all happy fortune.

(Signs of the soles of the Lord's feet: A standard, a flash, a mahout stick, a fish, a parasol, a lotus flower, and a disc). Thus, when the Lord walks barefoot on the ground, He lays down His divine signs.

When Akrura, a great sage, went to Vrindavana to seek Krishna, he saw in the dust of Nandagrama the footprints of the Lord, and immediately threw himself upon them, carried away by the ecstasy of his spiritual love for him. God. Such ecstasy is possible for a saint who is fully absorbed by Krishna's thought.

The great sage Vidura, eager to know what Lord Krishna had become, questioned Uddhava, a pure soul.

Sri Uddhava says:

O Vidura, here is the sun of the world, Lord Krishna, and the great serpent of time has devoured our dwelling place. How could I talk about our well-being?