Time, place and circumstances (Lectures)

Expressions researched:
"kala, desa, patra" |"time, place" |"the place, the time" |"time, atmosphere, and the performer" |"according to time, according to" |"according to time and place and the party" |"desa kala patra" |"according to circumstances" |"time place and circumstance" |"place and circumstance" |"time and place" |"place, time and the individual" |"desa kala" |"time, circumstances" |"different times" |"place, time" |"time person" |"time persons" |"time circumstance" |"time and circumstance" |"time and circumstances" |"time place circumstance" |"time place circumstances" |"time place and circumstances" |"time, place, and circumstance" |"time, place, circumstance" |"time place or circumstance"

Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

When a man professes to belong to a particular type of faith with reference to the particular time and circumstances of birth, and thus one claims to be a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian, Buddhist, or any other sect, and sub-sect, such designations are non-sanātana-dharma.

Introduction to Gitopanisad (Earliest Recording of Srila Prabhupada in the Bhaktivedanta Archives): When a man professes to belong to a particular type of faith with reference to the particular time and circumstances of birth, and thus one claims to be a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian, Buddhist, or any other sect, and sub-sect, such designations are non-sanātana-dharma. A Hindu may change his faith to become a Muslim, or a Muslim may change his faith to become a Hindu or a Christian, etc., but in all circumstances such change of religious faith does not allow a person to change his eternal engagement of rendering service to other. A Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, in all circumstances, he is servant of somebody, and thus to profess a particular type of faith is not to be considered as sanātana-dharma, but the constant companion of the living being, that is, rendering of service, is the sanātana-dharma. So factually, we are related in the service relationship with the Supreme Lord. The Supreme Lord is the supreme enjoyer, and we living entities are eternally His supreme servitors. We are created for His enjoyment, and if we partake, participate in that eternal enjoyment with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that makes us happy, not otherwise. Independently, as we have already explained that independently, any part of the body, the hand, the feet, the fingers, or any part of the body, independently, cannot be happy without cooperation with the stomach, similarly, the living entity can never be happy without rendering his transcendental loving service to the Supreme Lord.