Prabhupāda: (break) Minister Tun, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to thank you very much for your taking part in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, which is going on progressively all over the world. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement was practically started millions of years ago, and Kṛṣṇa says in the Fourth Chapter of the Bhagavad-gītā,
- imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ
- proktavān aham avyayam
- (BG 4.1)
So this bhakti-yoga system as it is described in the Bhagavad-gītā it was spoken first to the sun-god millions of years ago.
- vivasvān manave prāha
- manur ikṣvākave 'bravīt
- (BG 4.1)
- evaṁ paramparā-prāptam
- imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ
- (BG 4.2)
So it is coming down from sun-god to his son Manu, then Manu to Mahārāja Ikṣvāku, the first king in the dynasty wherein Lord Rāmacandra appeared. It is very old movement but the paramparā system, disciplic succession, was broken. That is stated by Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself:
- sa kāleneha (mahatā)
- yogo naṣṭaḥ parantapa
- (BG 4.2)
Therefore the Bhagavad-gītā yoga or bhakti-yoga was originally spoken to Arjuna. So at least from the historical point of view this movement is not less than five thousand years old. So not that we have concocted a religious process and distributing it. No. We cannot manufacture religion. That is not possible, because dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam (SB 6.3.19).
Dharma means the codes given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, just like law means the codes given by the government. You cannot manufacture laws in your home. That is not acceptable. Similarly this dharma, or bhāgavata-dharma... Dharma means bhāgavata-dharma, because the rules and regulations given by Lord Kṛṣṇa, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that is dharma.
It is clearly stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, sarva-dharmān parityajya (BG 18.66). First of all Kṛṣṇa said,
- dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya
- sambhavāmi yuge yuge
- (BG 4.8)
He came to re-establish the principles of religion. Then at the last moment He said,
- sarva-dharmān parityajya
- mām ekaṁśaraṇaṁ vraja
- (BG 18.66)
This means the concocted religion made by man, man-made religion, is not religion. Kṛṣṇa has distinctly forbidden: don't accept such religion, sarva-dharmān parityajya, because they are all concocted. Real religion is mām ekaṁśaraṇaṁ vraja. This is real religion.
In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam also this statement of Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa is confirmed: dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo 'tra (SB 1.1.2). In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, kaitavaḥ means cheating. Religious principles which are cheating public, that is completely eradicated. Dharmaḥ projjhita. Paramo nirmatsarāṇāṁ satāṁ vāstavam vedyaṁ atra (SB 1.1.2): it is to be understood by the paramo nirmatsarāṇāṁ. Nirmatsarāṇāṁ parotkarṣāsahanaṁ matsaraḥ. This is the comment by Śrīdhara Svāmī.
Śrīdhara Svāmī comments on this point that mokṣābhisandhir api nirastaḥ. People are after religion—dharma, artha, kāma, mokṣa. Generally people go to the churches, to the temple, for religious principles, but actually it is meant for solving economic problems. Just like the Christians, they pray, "O God, give us our daily bread." Similarly, you also go to the temple, you also worship many, many demigods also, go to the temple of Goddess Kālī or Durgā or Lord Śiva: dhanaṁ dehi rūpaṁ dehi rūpavatī-bhāryāṁ dehi, dehi dehi, to ask from them.
Therefore the modern politicians, they have become very much disgusted with this kind of dharma. They say that if you want dhanam, dhanam dehi, that's all right. Why don't you produce dhanam as others are producing it, by economic development? Why waste your time at the temple? Of course, those who go to temple, they are recognized, even if they are asking something, because they have approached God.
In the Bhagavad-gītā it is stated, catur-vidhā bhajante māṁ janaḥ sukṛtino (BG 7.16). They are su-kṛtinaḥ. Anyone who goes to the temple or church for asking God for economic solution, bread, bread solution, they are better than the atheist class, because they are at least going to God.
The atheist class of men, they are described in the Bhagavad-gītā, duṣkṛtinaḥ. Duṣkṛtinaḥ means miscreants, sinful. Kṛti means meritorious, but their merit is being misused in wasting time of the very valuable human life.