What is DHARMA? His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the founder Acharya of ISKCON, says, “dharma means the orders given by the supreme personality of godhead. That is dharma. You can not manufacture dharma. Just like nowadays many so-called dharma are being manufactured. These are not Dharma. Dharma means the orders given by God. That is dharma. Just like Lord Krsna said,”sarva-dharmān parityajya
mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja” (B.G.18.66)Meaning – Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me.

But nowadays people have taken it very cheap and very lightly. Most of the people do not have the inclination for religious activities, they simply follow it superficially to show. Therefore, the heinous things as Conversion of religion are spreading. Christians should be given the first prize for converting religion. Today’s there are many Churches and Missionary schools in India. Where there is the conversion of religion practiced publicly. There taught Hindu gods are ludicrous imaginary character and Jesus Christ to be only God. But, the so-called follower who preach about Jesus Christ, they don’t follow even the basic teachings of Lord Jesus Christ. Srila Prabhupada while having a conversation with Father Emmanuel, asked him that Jesus christ ordered in his 6th commandment that “thou shall not kill”. So, Why your people have opened Big Big slaughterhouses in Europe? Where daily those animals are being killed ruthlessly. Just as you are a son of that God, similarity they are also sons of that God. So, why you looking difference from them? That priest did not have an answer to such a hard question asked by Srila Prabhupada. However, Christian missionaries don’t seem to have an answer to this question.

Now, these people have invented a new technique to preach the so-called Christian religion. Here, in India, most of the people in villages or small cities don’t understand English. So, they have prepared Christianity in the style of the Hindu version. There is a village called Shiwalar located in Gosaiganj area in the city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, where these people have opened a temple of Messiah-Jesus and their saffron wearing priests organized a yagña over there and completed himself (No need of Brahmins).

These intellectuals even have composed Hindu version mantra, “Om Jesus christāya Namah “. If you are illiterate man, you can’t sing Prayer in English at church. There is no problem. The so-called leaders of religion are delivering you Christianity in style of Hinduism. Their aim is to increase the population of their own religion more and more. But what will be the result of this? Srila Prabhupada have said everywhere for these people to be foolish and hypocrites. He said that “these people are uselessly generating disturbance and quarrel in the society”.

In today’s society people need to be aware more and more. They should know their own true dharma – to render service unto Lord Krsna – this should be known. Srila Prabhupada states that even if you belong from any religion, say Hindu, Islam, Christian, etc. If you have Main purpose or objective to Love God then your religion is perfect. Otherwise, you are following a so-called religion. Bhagavatam describes this kind of religion as “ketava dharma ” meaning that religion which goes against God-given laws.

Therefore, just like garbage is thrown out from house similarily this type of so-called religion should be thrown out or given up. Dharma is not like a stamp that by applying it a person belongs to a particular religion. These converted religious people, being unsatisfied, will take up another so-called religion in due course of time because their actual purpose is not to serve for the happiness of God, rather serve their own senses & indulge in materialistic activities. Therefore we should study authorized literature like Bhagavad gitā, Bhagavatam and Ramayana to know what is real dharma. Then we can differentiate which is Actual dharma and which is Bogus.

Hare Krsna!
Jay Srila Prabhupada

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