In the Vedic way there is no question of manufacturing something, religious process. No. Just like you cannot manufacture law. In your state, privately, you cannot manufacture law. The law is given by the state

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"In the Vedic way there is no question of manufacturing something, religious process. No. Just like you cannot manufacture law. In your state, privately, you cannot manufacture law" |"The law is given by the state"

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He was student, but He introduced this movement five hundred years ago, and some of the elderly men, as you see, one elderly man with beard, He also helped Him, and the others . . . actually this movement was originally started by young boys. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Nityānanda Prabhu and Advaita Prabhu, They started. And there was a great agitation against Them by the brahmins priestly brahmins, at that time. So Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu picked up these sixteen words from Vedic literature. It is not that He manufactured something. No. In the Vedic way there is no question of manufacturing something, religious process. No. Just like you cannot manufacture law. In your state, privately, you cannot manufacture law.

690429 - Lecture Brandeis University - Boston

He was student, but He introduced this movement five hundred years ago, and some of the elderly men, as you see, one elderly man with beard, He also helped Him, and the others . . . actually this movement was originally started by young boys. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Nityānanda Prabhu and Advaita Prabhu, They started. And there was a great agitation against Them by the brahmins priestly brahmins, at that time.

So Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu picked up these sixteen words from Vedic literature. It is not that He manufactured something. No. In the Vedic way there is no question of manufacturing something, religious process. No. Just like you cannot manufacture law. In your state, privately, you cannot manufacture law.

The law is given by the state. Similarly, any process, any process for self-realization, you cannot manufacture. That is to be taken directly from God and His representative. That is the verdict of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam (SB 6.3.19).