Category:Cheating Religion
Theme Analysis
The concept of "cheating religion" (kaitava-dharma) is central to the pure philosophical presentation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. True religion is not a mere sectarian label—such as Hindu, Muslim, or Christian—nor is it a manufactured system of ethical codes. Religion means the law of God, and its ultimate goal is to know and love the Supreme Lord. Therefore, any system that has no clear conception of God, imagines God to be formless, or allows followers to manufacture their own spiritual processes is a cheating religion. Furthermore, a religion is exposed as a deception when it permits unnecessary violence, such as animal slaughter, despite the clear commandments of past prophets. Even highly organized systems aimed at material elevation (dharma, artha, kāma) or impersonal liberation (mokṣa) are classified as cheating because they maintain a selfish motive rather than fostering pure dedication to the Lord. To establish the highest truth, the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam begins by completely kicking out (projjhita) all these cheating religions, leaving only pure, unmotivated devotional service (bhakti) as the first-class religion for all humanity.
- Godless Fabrications: Any system that lacks a true understanding of God, or encourages people to invent their own spiritual paths, is merely cheating its followers.
- Violence and Hidden Motives: Religions that ignore nonviolence (like animal killing) or that are driven by the desire for material gain and liberation are deceptive.
- The Bhāgavatam's Rejection: The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam uncompromisingly sweeps away all forms of cheating religion to protect innocent seekers from being misled.
- The Supreme Path: The only true, first-class religion is one that teaches the soul how to unconditionally surrender to and love the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Real Religion versus Cheating Religion.
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Pages in category "Cheating Religion"
The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
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- Actual philosophy is this: the religion means surrender to Krsna. Anything else which does not surrender to Krsna, that is not religion. That is rejected in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, dharmah projjhita-kaitavo (SB 1.1.2): all cheating religion is rejected
- Any kind of religion which is going on under the name of religion, but the system has no information of God, that is cheating religion
- Any religion committing unnecessary violence to the animals, (it is) third-class. It is not religion, it is cheating. Simply cheating
- Any religion which does not teach about God, which does not know what is God, that is cheating religion. That's all
- Any religious system which is teaching to divert the attention of the follower to so many things, that is cheating religion
- Anything without Krsna consciousness, without God consciousness, they are all cheating religion. They are not religion
- As soon as there is some motive, that is cheating religion. But bhakti, there is no such thing, dharma, artha, kama, moksa. It is above, transcendental
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- I don't say that your religion is cheating or my religion is bona fide. I don't say that. We have no right to say that
- I have already explained what is meaning of religion. Religion means to render service to God. If you do not render service to God, that is not religion; that is cheating
- I profess some religion, but I do not know what is God and how to love Him. So that type of religion is cheating religion
- If there is no understanding of God, where is religion? - This is not religion, they're cheating. There cannot be any conception of religion without conception of God
- If they do not know what is God, then how he'll understand the law of God? That means there is no religion. All cheating
- If you manufacture dharma without any reference to the authority, that is not dharma. That is cheating religion
- In religion, a godless religion, where there is no conception of God, that is not religion. That is called cheating religion. In the name of religion, but there is no conception of God. That is not religion
- It is explained any religion which does not recognize or do not understand the principles of religion, so that is cheating religion
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- Jesus Christ also preached, "Thou shall not kill," but these rascals, all violating. And still, they are proclaiming as Christian and Buddhist. No real religion will allow this kind of violence. No religion. It is cheating religion
- Just like we sweep very nicely, cleansely, our room, similarly all types of cheating religion is wiped out, swept away. Dharmah projjhita-kaitavo atra - SB 1.1.2
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- Religion means the law given by Krsna, or God. That is religion. Otherwise, it is not religion. That is cheating. Dharmah projjhita-kaitavo 'tra (SB 1.1.2). This is cheating religion. If you do not follow Krsna, that is cheating
- Religion means to know God and love Him. But generally, a man does not know what is God, and what to speak of loving Him? So therefore that is cheating religion. That is not religion
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- That is first-class religion, which teaches how to surrender to God and how to become a lover of God. That is religion. Otherwise, they are simply cheating religion
- The characteristic is that I am eternally servant of God. So instead of serving God, if I serve the dog, that is called cheating religion
- The so-called religious system which is full of matsarata, jealousy, that is called kaitava-dharma, cheating in the name of religion. So this God consciousness is not a cheating religion. It is very broad-minded
- The Tirupati is a Vaisnava temple, so they should encourage.... Vaisnavism means real religion. All other, bogus, cheating religions
- There are five branches of irreligion, appropriately known as irreligion (vidharm), religious principles for which one is unfit (para-dharma), pretentious religion (abhasa), analogical religion (upadharma) and cheating religion (chala-dharma)
- There are so many religious systems which say, "God has no form. There is no God. Let us imagine." This kind of religion is cheating religion
- There is no other religion except Krsna consciousness. All cheating religion. We discussed. Dharmah projjhita-kaitavah - All cheating type of religion is rejected, kicked out
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- We are against all so-called cheating religion. The Hinduism is also a cheating religion. We are preaching Bhagavata, and Bhagavata beginning that "We have kicked out all cheating religion." What is cheating religion? That one has to understand
- We are Hindu, Muslim, Christian, this, that. They are all third-class, cheating religion. What is real religion? That is religion which teaches how to love God. That is religion. Yato bhaktir adhoksaje. That is first-class religion
- Why I say, "cheating religion"? Because it is said in the beginning of SB, dharmah projjhita-kaitavo 'tra (SB 1.1.2). Kaitava means cheating. You cannot make people happy by presenting some cheating religion. That is the injunction of SB