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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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One should receive religion through the ācāryas. Not whimsically, anyone and everyone. "Anyone can become an avatāra; anyone can become God"—this is all rascaldom. We have to become dharmajñāḥ, knower of religion. How I shall know? Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ (CC Madhya 17.186).
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[[Vanisource:730221 - Lecture SB 06.01.13-15 - Auckland|730221 - Lecture SB 06.01.13-15 - Auckland]]
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If the state law is that you must drive your car left, can you create the law, "No, I create the law it should be driven on the right"? Will you be accepted? Similarly, if you cannot create the law of the state, how you can create the law of God? Common sense. But they are creating, "Oh, this is a new type of religion I have created." "What you are, sir, you can create?" No, religion means the order of God, and it can be created only . . . it can be given by God, and we should receive it through the ācāryas.

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:evaṁ paramparā-prāptam
:imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ 
:([[Vanisource:BG 4.2 (1972)|BG 4.2]])
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Kṛṣṇa said by paramparā system, and that the law is executed through the state servant, paramparā.

Similarly, one should receive religion through the ācāryas. Not whimsically, anyone and everyone. "Anyone can become an avatāra; anyone can become God"—this is all rascaldom. We have to become dharmajñāḥ, knower of religion. How I shall know? Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.186|CC Madhya 17.186]]).

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:dharmasya tattvaṁ nihitaṁ guhāyāṁ
:mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ 
:([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.186|CC Madhya 17.186]])
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These are the indications, tarko ‘pratiṣṭhaḥ. You cannot establish religion by arguing. What is the value of your argument? You can argue very nice, but I can argue better than you, I can defeat you. Then another man comes; he is better arguer than me, he defeats me. So in this way, simply by argument you cannot establish religion. That is not possible. That is not possible. Tarko 'pratiṣṭhaḥ. It will never establish what is actually religion. śrutayo vibhinnā: if you consult different scriptures, Bible, Koran, or Vedas, you cannot understand what is what.

You will find different methods, different ways; although they are one, may be one, but according to country and place and people, the methods are different. Therefore we sometimes argue that "Our scripture says like that; your scripture says . . ." No. The scripture says the same thing, but it is adjusted according to time, circumstances, audience. So therefore if you simply read scripture, śrutayo vibhinnā—there are Ṛg Veda, Sāma Veda, Yajur Veda, this Veda, so many—you cannot come to the conclusion. Neither by argument. Neither by argument, nor by simply reading books. śrutayo vibhinnā ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.186|CC Madhya 17.186]]).
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