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Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of …

yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham

[Bg. 4.7]

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Translation = "Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise …

Prabhupāda:

yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham

[Bg. 4.7]

This is very important verse in the Bhagavad-gītā. Dharmasya. Dharma is translated into English as "religion," and religion is described …

yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham

[Bg. 4.7]

If anyone accepts his own type of religion, so "I may not like your religion, you may not like my …

So dharma does not mean that you manufacture something, I manufacture something at home, or by some assembly, resolution passed. …

So first of all, who can give us dharma? That is stated in the śāstras, dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam [SB …

So God is one. God cannot say somewhere that "This is religion and this is not religion." God says, Bhagavān …

paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya ca sambhavāmi yuge yuge

[Bg. 4.8]

The two business, Kṛṣṇa's. Because He has already explained, bhūtānām īśvaraḥ, "I am the controller of all living entities." Therefore …

So dharma means, as Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66]. This is dharma. …

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has explained this = jīvera svarūpa haya nitya-kṛṣṇa-dāsa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. We are surrendering, but we are …