One must know what is God; then one must know what is order. But there is. Just like Kṛṣṇa: Kṛṣṇa is accepted God by all the Vedic followers. In India there are ācāryas, ācārya-upāsanam: Rāmānuja Ācārya, Madhvācārya, Śaṅkarācārya, Nimbārditya. There are so many. There are different ācāryas, they are preaching about God, and they have accepted Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all of them. Indian Vedic civilization is guided by the ācāryas, not by the rascals and fools. ācāryas. Anyone who is not under the guidance of this ācārya, he is not accepted as bona fide follower of Veda. You cannot create.
Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ (CC Madhya 17.186). You cannot create one religion. No. Nowadays there are so many rascals, they are creating religion. Religion . . . just like you cannot create law. Is it possible? 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.
- evaṁ paramparā-prāptam
- imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ
- (BG 4.2)
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 (CC Madhya 17.186).
- dharmasya tattvaṁ nihitaṁ guhāyāṁ
- mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ
- (CC Madhya 17.186)
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.