Monday 29 September 2014

Śrīla Prabhupāda Says

Similarly, you cannot manufacture any religion. Nārāyaṇa sākṣāt. Nārāyaṇa, God, He can make. You cannot make at your home, “I have manufactured a type of religion.” No. That you cannot do. Nowadays this is going on. Yata mata tata patha: “You can manufacture your own religion.” This is going on.

“You are okay, I am okay.” “I manufacture my religion.

You manufacture your religion. Don’t fight. Let us become brother.” This is going on. So how you can be brother? The dog remains a dog. How they can become brother? It is not possible.

Therefore so many religious systems, they are all rascaldom. One religion: that is the order of God. That is religion. If you want one religion, then you must know who is God and you must abide by the order of God. That is religion, very simple thing. You cannot manufacture, concoction. That is not religion.

Therefore Bhāgavata, it is said, dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavaḥ: “All these cheating type of religion is rejected, kicked out from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.”

What is that religion there? Param satyaṁ dhīmahi: “The Supreme Truth, the Absolute Truth, we are accepting.” This is religion.

[Srimad-Bhagavatam Lecture 6.1.40: San Francisco, July 21, 1975 ]

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