The Way of Chanting and Knowing Krsna 19

perienced is but a perverted reflection of things in
spiritual life.

When our constitutional position or dharma is
deteriorated due to the contaminations of matter, the
Lord Himself comes as an incarnation or sends some
of His confidential servitors. Lord Jesus Christ called
himself the ‘“‘son of God,” and so is a representative
of the Supreme. Similarly, Mohammed identified
himself as a servant of the Supreme Lord. Thus when-
ever there is a discrepancy in our constitutional
position, the Supreme Lord either comes Himself or
sends His representative to inform us of the real
position of the living entity.

Therefore, one should not make the mistake of
thinking that dharma is a created faith. In its proper
sense, dharma cannot be divorced from the living
entity at all. It is to the living entity what sweetness
is to sugar, or saltiness is to salt, or solidity is to
stone. In no case can it be cut off. The dharma of the
living entity is to serve, and we can easily see that
every living entity has the tendency to serve himself
or others. How to serve Krsna, how to disentangle
ourselves from materialistic service, how to attain
Krsna consciousness and become free from material
designations is all taught as a science by Si Krsna in
Bhagavad-gita.

The word sadhu in the verse quoted above, begin-
ning paritranaya sadhunam refers to a holy man or a
saintly person. A saintly person is tolerant, very kind
to everyone, is a friend to all living entities, is no
one’s enemy and is always peaceful. There are twenty-
six basic qualifications for a holy man, and in the
