The authority, Dharmaraja, says that dharma cannot be manufactured by anybody, even great sages or demigods. But nowadays everyone is manufacturing a dharma, and the so-called rascals, they are supporting that

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"the authority, Dharmarāja, says that dharma cannot be manufactured by anybody, even great sages or demigods. But nowadays everyone is manufacturing a dharma, and the so-called rascals, they are supporting that"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

The authority, Dharmarāja, says that dharma cannot be manufactured by anybody, even great sages or demigods. But nowadays everyone is manufacturing a dharma, and the so-called rascals, they are supporting that, "As many opinions there are, all of them are good." Yata mata tata patha. That is the preaching of the Ramakrishna Mission that, "Anyone can manufacture his own. It is personal." Is it not? And I have seen in your country also this, the same opinion he gave that, "Everyone has got his personal religion." And there is the hippies also. They are against any organized religion. These things are going on.

710212 - Lecture SB 06.03.18-19 - Gorakhpur

Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītaṁ na vai vidur ṛṣayo nāpi devāḥ (SB 6.3.19). Dharma means . . . this is authority. Yamarāja is authority. What is dharma? What is religion? Now, he says—he is authority—"Dharma means what is enacted by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is dharma." Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītaṁ na vai vidur ṛṣayaḥ: "The essence of dharma is not known even to the great sages." Na vai vidur ṛṣayo nāpi devāḥ: "Not by the demigods."

Now, the authority, Dharmarāja, says that dharma cannot be manufactured by anybody, even great sages or demigods. But nowadays everyone is manufacturing a dharma, and the so-called rascals, they are supporting that, "As many opinions there are, all of them are good." Yata mata tata patha. That is the preaching of the Ramakrishna Mission that, "Anyone can manufacture his own. It is personal." Is it not? And I have seen in your country also this, the same opinion he gave that, "Everyone has got his personal religion." And there is the hippies also. They are against any organized religion. These things are going on.

But here, we see, dharma means . . . of course, it is a fact that you cannot make an organized religion by your concoction. So actually those who are religious, they have no difference opinion, because religion means enacted by God. God is one. So not that God makes one kind of religion for one kind of person and another kind of religion for another person. Real dharma is, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead says that, "Don't manufacture your own religion. Simply surrender unto Me, the one God." That is dharma.

Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam (SB 6.3.19). Whatever the Supreme Personality says: "This is dharma," that is dharma. The same example, as I have given: law means which is enacted by the king or the government. You cannot manufacture laws by your whims. That is not possible. No. What to speak of you, here it is said: "Even great sages like Vyāsadeva, Nārada, they cannot also manufacture religion. And what to speak of the ordinary devas?" The Brahmā . . . Brahmā is the topmost of all the demigods. He cannot also manufacture religion.