If Kṛṣṇa kills you, nobody can protect you, and if Kṛṣṇa protects you, nobody can kill you. Rākhe kṛṣṇa mare ke, mare kṛṣṇa rākhe ke. This is the formula.
So here it is said that dharmasya. If you want to take to religiosity . . . practically dharma, I have several times explained that dharma means . . .
(aside) What you are doing? It is disturbing me. Yes. Don't you see? He cannot do it. Yes. Do it.
Dharma, to become religious, the purpose is to go up to the point of mukti. Dharma artha kāma mokṣa (SB 4.8.41, CC Adi 1.90), gradually. Gradually, step by step. But generally, people stuck up for some material gain. Ārtaḥ arthārthī jñānī jijñāsuḥ. Four kinds of people approaches the Supreme Personality of Godhead for evolution, but the . . . those who are going to the Supreme Person for some material gain, as soon as their material gain is finished, they also finish worship. "Now I have got the money. There is no need of worshiping."
So here Bhāgavata says that dharma . . . you take to, to the principles of religion for going up to the point of liberation, āpavargyasya. Dharmasya hy āpavargyasya. This is meant for getting out of this entanglement of birth, death, old age and disease. That is real . . . the first step is religiosity. Unless you are pious, religious, there is no possibility of getting liberation. Therefore there are different types of dharma prescribed, twenty types of dharma. The beginning is varṇāśrama-dharma. The people have lost even varṇāśrama-dharma, what to speak of other dharma. The first beginning is varṇāśrama-dharma, to become brāhmiṇ, to become kṣatriya, to become vaiśya.
So in the Kali-yuga the time is so bad that even there is no fixity of this varṇāśrama-dharma. Nobody knows who is brāhmiṇ, who is śūdra. Because the quality is the same now, eating, sleeping, mating—animal quality. You can become a brāhmiṇ by sacred thread. That is a different thing. But there are brāhmiṇ and brahminical qualification. That is real brāhmiṇ.