26۶
Šri Caitanya caritāmeta
Мадһуа-лілә Сһ 11
TRANSLATION
“Anyone who worships Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu by congregational chanting should be understood to be very intelligent. One who does not do so must be considered a victim of this age and bereft of all intelligence.
PURPORT
Rascals propose that anyone can invent his own religious process, and this proposition is condemned herein. If one actually wants to become religious, he must take up the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra . The real meaning of religion is stated in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (6.3.19-22).
dharmaṁ tu sākṣād-bhagavat-praṇītaṁ 
    na vai vidur ṛṣayo nāpi devāḥ 
    na siddha-mukhyā asurā manuṣyāḥ 
    kutaś ca vidyādhara-cāraṇādayaḥ
s vayambhūr nāradaḥ śambhuḥ kumāraḥ kapilo manuḥ prahlādo janako bhīṣmo balir vaiyāsakir vayam
dvādaśaite vijānīmo  
 dharmarṅ bhāgavatarṅ bhaṭāḥ  
 guhyarṅ viśuddharṅ durbodharṅ  
 yarṅ jñātvāmṛtam aśnute
etāvān eva loke ‘smin purṅsārṅ dharmaḥ paraḥ smṛtaḥ bhakti-yogo bhagavati tan-nāma-grahaṇādibhiḥ
The purport of these verses is that  dharma , or religion, cannot be manufactured by a human being. Religion is the law or code of the Lord. Consequently religion cannot be manufactured even by great saintly persons, demigods or  siddha-mukhyas , and what to speak of  asuras , human beings, Vidyādharas, Cāraṇas, and so on. The principles of  dharma , religion, come down in the  paramparā  system beginning with twelve personalities—namely, Lord Brahmā; the great saint Nārada; Lord Śiva; the four Kumāras; Kapila, the son of Devahūti; Svāyambhuva Manu; Prahlāda Mahārāja; King Janaka; grandfather Bhīṣma; Bali Mahārāja; Śukadeva Gosvāmī; and Yamarāja. The principles of religion are known to these twelve personalities.  Dharma  refers to the religious principles by which one can