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So religious principles cannot be manufactured, neither it can be made by speculation. So actually, there cannot be many religion. …

Man cannot manufacture. I have several times explained. Just like law, state law. The state law can be given by …

And when actually the real religion is violated... Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati... [Bg. 4.7]. Glāniḥ means violation. Tadātmānaṁ …

So God is not so cheap that you become God, I become God, he becomes God. The śāstra says, kṛṣṇas …

The Vedānta-sūtra also says, janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1] = the original source of everything. Who is that original source? …

ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate iti matvā bhajante māṁ budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ

[Bg. 10.8]

So everything is there. God is there. His name is there. His address is there. His law is there. Everything …

So the incident is that Bali Mahārāja was very powerful, and he conquered the whole universe, even the demigods, all. …

There are two classes of men are always there. Sometimes one class is more in number, and other class is …

So sometimes in asura's family also, there are Vaiṣṇavas, by the grace of Nārada. Nārada makes... Just like Prahlāda Mahārāja …

So He went to Bali Mahārāja by a trick. Because Bali Mahārāja... Kṛṣṇa knows that Bali Mahārāja was the grandson …

So immediately his spiritual master, the demon's spiritual master Śukrācārya... Śukrācārya means... Śukra means semina, seminal ācārya. Means... You do …

So this is not cheating. Just like father sometimes cheats a son. Suppose something is there, and two brothers, small …

So sometimes God has to do such cheating of affection. That is not cheating actually. But the cheating propensity is …

So the Bali Mahārāja was cheated by... But he, being cheated, he became conqueror. So this Śukrācārya said to Bali …

So that means... That is the śāstric injunction, that anyone who is not a Viṣṇu devotee, or Vaiṣṇava, he cannot …

Ṣaṭ-karma-nipuṇaḥ. Brāhmaṇa have got six kinds of occupation = paṭhana-pāṭhana yajana-yājana dāna-pratigraha. Brāhmaṇa should be very learned, he should teach …

So śāstra says, ṣaṭ-karma-nipuṇo vipraḥ: "A brāhmaṇa, well conversed with these duties of brahminical duties," and mantra-tantra-viśāradaḥ, "and expert in …

So this Śukrācārya, he was against Viṣṇu. So Bali Mahārāja immediately rejected him. Therefore he became a mahājana, exemplary. Because …