Knowledge Beyond Samsara 19

yaved in devotional service are acting for Krsna or
God, and since in this way there is connection with
God, Krgna consciousness is a religion.

It is not possible to manufacture a religion. A
(rue religion must come from an authorized source,
and that source is either God or His representative.
Religion has been called the law of God. It is not
possible for a person to manufacture a State law.
The law is there, and it is given by the State. One
may create some bylaws for his own society, but
these laws must be sanctioned by the law of the
State. Similarly, if we wish to make some principle
of religion, it must be sanctioned by the Vedic
authority.

Bhagavad-gita is also religion. Great authorities
like Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnusvami, Lord
Caitanya, Saikaracarya, and so many others have
accepted Bhagavad-gita as the supreme principle of
religion and Krsna as the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. There is no doubt about it. In the West
also Bhagavad-gita is accepted as a great book of
philosophy, and many great scholars and philosophers
in the West have read it and commented upon it.
Despite acceptance by the scholars and acaryas, there
are persons who do not accept Bhagavad-gita and
who have no faith. They do not accept it at all as
authority, for they think that it is some sentimental
exaggeration by a man known as Krsna. Thus Krsna
slates in the above quoted verse that those who
reject Bhagavad-gita as authority cannot have any
connection with Him, and because they have no
relation to Him, they remain in the cycle of birth
