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come to mean a religious system that goes under the
name of Christian, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist, etc.
But the word dharma does not have the same mean-
ing as faith. The faith of an individual may change
from Hindu to Buddhist to Christian to Moslem,
etc. People have the ability to accept one faith and
reject another, but dharma cannot be changed. It is
the nature of every individual to render service,
either to himself, his family, his community, nation
or to humanity at large. This rendering of service
cannot in any way be divorced from the living
entity, and it is this that constitutes the dharma of
every living being. Without rendering service, one
cannot exist. The world goes on because we are all
rendering and exchanging service. We must forget
whether we are Christian, Moslem or Hindu, and we
must understand that we are living entities whose
constitutional position is to render service to the
supreme living entity. When we reach that stage of
understanding, we are liberated.

Liberation is freedom from temporary designations
which we have acquired from association with
material nature. Liberation is nothing more than
this. Because we have material bodies, we take on so
many designations; thus we call ourselves a man, a
parent, an American, a Christian, Hindu, etc. These
designations should be abandoned if we at all want
to become free. Under no circumstances are we
master. We are at the present serving, but we are
serving with designations. We’re the servants of a
wife, of a family, of a job, of our own senses, of our
children, and if we have no children we become
