Prabhupāda: Vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ. Find out this verse. Janayaty āśu vairāgyam. I don't see Bhagavān dāsa. Why?
Bhūgarbha: He's organizing the ceremony for tomorrow.
Prabhupāda: The difference is, a bhakta, pure bhakta, he has jñāna. But a jñānī may not have bhakti.
Yogeśvara: Once Professor Chenique asked me whether we thought it was possible for a Christian like himself to also realize the perfection of Vaiṣṇavism.
Prabhupāda: Why not? Christianism is also Vaiṣṇavism. Christianism is Vaiṣṇavism. Anyone who accepts the supremacy of God, he's a Vaiṣṇava. So Christian, Christianity, "God is great," they say. So that is Vaiṣṇavism, "God is great."
Professor Chenique: Oui, but now they say God is dead.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Bhūgarbha: Now the Christians say that God is dead.
Prabhupāda: Now, that is not Christianity. If you can change, there is no religion. That is mental concoction. As soon as you make change, we reject immediately, useless. Religion: the word of God. Religion means the word of God. You cannot change the word of God. If you change the word of God—that is material, that is not religion. You cannot change the word of God by your votes. That is useless. If you say that religion . . . religion means the dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam (SB 6.3.19). Find out this verse, Sixth Canto. There is no Sixth Canto there?
Hari-śauri: We have one volume, but it's the wrong volume. We have Volume Two.
Bhūgarbha: I think he's bringing.
Prabhupāda: Oh. The definition of religion is just like law. Law can be given by the government. You cannot make law. If you make at home some law, nobody will touch it. It is not obligatory. But if government says, "Keep to the right," it is obligatory. This is law. So religion, you cannot manufacture religion. Religion means the word of God. And if yearly or quarterly you change the words, that is not religion. That is not religion. That is mental concoction. Therefore we are presenting Bhagavad-gītā as it is. No change. Others, they are interpreting in their own way. That is not Bhagavad-gītā. That is something else. (to devotee) Keep it there. He will take. In the words of God there is no question of changing. You cannot change. As soon as you make a change, immediately it is material—it has nothing to do with spiritual world. The same example: the law of government is one, and if you make change, that is not law. Government says, "Keep to the right," you have to keep to the right. You cannot make "Keep to the left," no. So that is nowadays happening—which edition of Christianity? There are so many. Therefore it is the purport of Christianity is lost. That is lost.