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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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There is no such thing as Hindu dharma. No. There is no such word in the whole Vedic literature. You won't find in the Bhagavad-gītā or Bhāgavata as Hindu dharma. There is one word as Bhāgavata-dharma, but there is no such word as Hindu dharma. This Hindu dharma or Hindu... This is creation by our neighbor, Indian neighbor, the Middle-East Muhammadans. They gave the name, Indian people, as "Hindu." "Hindu" means... There is one river, Sindhu.
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So this human society should be divided into eight divisions. That is first-class human society. Just like any organization, any establishment, there are divisions of labor: the directing board, board of directors there are, then the secretarial board, then ordinary clerks, then menial, then workers. There must be division; otherwise it is chaotic. Nowhere you'll find without division it is going on very smoothly. There must be division. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says in the ''Bhagavad-gītā, cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 4.13 (1972)|BG 4.13]]). It is ordered by God that there should be four divisions for the materialistic condition of life and four divisions for spiritual upliftment. So there must be the ''brāhmaṇa, cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭam. Varṇa'' means four divisions of society. ''Varṇa'' means class. It has been taken now as caste; but actually class. Class is not caste. Caste, of course. . . Throughout the whole world there is no such thing as caste. But anyway, in India there is caste. But Kṛṣṇa says that ''cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭam'' ([[vanisource:BG 4.13 (1972)|BG 4.13]]): "Four divisions of classes I have created—''brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra''." Who is a ''brāhmaṇa''? That is also described in the ''Bhagavad-gītā: satya, śama, dama, titikṣā, ārjava, āstikyam, jñāna, vijñānam'', so many qualifications required to become a ''brāhmaṇa''. Not that because I was born in a ''brāhmaṇa'' family. This is discussed in ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', that to take birth in a ''brāhmaṇa'' family is not all. You must be qualified, ''śamo damas titikṣā''. That is required. The Indian culture has failed at the present moment because instead of considering the qualification, they accept only the birth: "The birth in a ''brāhmaṇa'' family makes a man a ''brāhmaṇa''." No. That is not the śāstric injunction. Qualification. There must be qualification.

So without such division. . . Therefore there is no such thing as Hindu ''dharma''. No. There is no such word in the whole Vedic literature. You won't find in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' or ''Bhāgavata'' as Hindu ''dharma''. There is one word as ''Bhāgavata-dharma'', but there is no such word as Hindu ''dharma''. This Hindu ''dharma'' or Hindu. . . This is creation by our neighbor, Indian neighbor, the Middle-East Muhammadans. They gave the name, Indian people, as "Hindu." "Hindu" means. . . There is one river, Sindhu. The Muhammadans, they pronounce sa as ha. So those who were on the riverside of the Sindhu River, Hindu River, they were called Hindus. But actually Vedic religion is neither for Hindus nor for Christian nor for. . . It is meant for the human being.
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