Krishna
came to establish what is real religion. Not cheating religion. Cheating
religion will not help
us. Why I say “cheating religion”? Because it is said in
the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Dharma projhita kaitavo atra. Kaitava means
cheating. You cannot make people happy by presenting some cheating religion.
That is the injunction of Srimad-Bhagavatam. What is the real religion? Dharman
tu saksad bhagavat pranitam. Dharma means the codes given by God. That is
dharma. You cannot make this dharma, that dharma. Dharma is one. God is one.
And you have to follow that one principle, how to approach Krishna.
That is bhakti. So dharma is to approach Krishna
and the process is bhakti. And Krishna is the
Supreme God.
Religion means the laws and the
codes given by God. That is religion. Now, God is one. God cannot be two. And
what He says, that is also one. So if we accept that one law of God, that is
religion. Then there is unity. But if you create your own religion by your
imagination, that is another thing. Religion means the laws given by God. Just
like state law. State law is acceptable by everyone. I have given this
instance. The state law is that “Keep to the right” or “Left” Everyone accepts.
There is no disunity. So if we actually take the words of God, then there is
unity. But if we do not take, if we create our own system of religion, that is
a different thing.
So actually
those who are religious, they have no difference in opinion, because religion
means enacted by God. God is one. So not that God make4s one kind of religion
for one kind of person and another kind of religion for another person. Real
dharma is, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead says, “Don’t manufacture your
own religion. Simply surrender unto Me, the one God”. That is Dharma. Dharman
tu saksad bhagavat-pranitam. Whatever the Supreme Personality says, “This is
dharma”, that is dharma.
As far as
the topmost religion to be the best and the Buddhists, Muhammadans and the
Hindus maintain their religions to be best. Throughout history fights have been
waged between religions. During the Crusades the Christians fought the
Muhammadans, and in India
there are often fights between the Hindus and the Moslems. What is the meaning
of such fights? If one is actually God conscious, je lmpws God – so what is the
possibility of his fighting?
There
cannot be two Gods. God is one. As such, if God is one, there cannot be two
religion also because religion means to understand God, to love God. That is
religion. And religion means the words of God. So why there should be two
religions? There can not be two religions. There may be some difference
according to climate, country, population. There may be some difference in the
execution of religion, but on principle there can not be two religions because
God is one and religion means the words of God. So how there can be two
religions? We have made two, three, four, five, six, increasing the number of
religions.
God is one,
and religion is one. And what is that religion? Love of God. There is no second
religion. This is religion.
(Credit : Karan Krishna Prabhu, Nepal, Collected from different books of Srila Prabhupada)
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