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Cats And Dogs Have No Religion - Prabhupada 0257



731006 - Lecture BG 13.13 - Bombay

Kṛṣṇa took part in the Battle of Kurukṣetra. He's Supreme Personality of Godhead; why should He take part in the battleground? Some section of people, they question like this. But He has His business. Because He says, dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge (BG 4.8): "I come. My business is to reestablish the principle of life, religion."

Human life means religion. Dharmeṇa hīnāḥ pasubhiḥ samānāḥ (Hitopadeśa). The cats and dogs, they have no religion. But if the human being has no religion, then he is no better than the cat and dog. Therefore all over the world, either he's a European or American or Indian or Canadian or Russian, everyone has got some religion. It doesn't matter whether it is Hinduism, Muslimism or Christianism. Because human society without religious conception—religious conception means to understand God—he's animal. Dharmeṇa hīnāḥ pasubhiḥ samānāḥ. Gradually, the whole world is becoming animal, because they are rejecting religion."