132 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 6, Ch. 16

dharma. Bhagavata-dharma means following the orders given by the
Supreme Lord, Bhagavan, as stated in Bhagavad-gita: sarva-dharman
parityajya mam ekam Saranam vraja. God is one, and God is for every-
one. Therefore everyone must surrender to God. That is the pure concep-
tion of religion. Whatever God orders constitutes religion (dharmam tu
saksad bhagavat-pranitam). In bhdgavata-dharma there is no question
of “‘what you believe” and “what I believe.” Everyone must believe in
the Supreme Lord and carry out His orders. Anukiilyena
krsndnusilanam: whatever Krsna says—whatever God says—should be
directly carried out. That is dharma, religion.

If one is actually Krsna conscious, he cannot have any enemies. Since
his only engagement is to induce others to surrender to Krsna, or God,
how can he have enemies? If one advocates the Hindu religion, the
Muslim religion, the Christian religion, this religion or that religion,
there will be conflicts. History shows that the followers of religious
systems without a clear conception of God have fought with one another.
There are many instances of this in human history, but systems of
religion that do not concentrate upon service to the Supreme are tempor-
ary and cannot last for long because they are full of envy. There are
many activities directed against such religious systems, and therefore one
must give up the idea of “my belief” and “your belief.” Everyone
should believe in God and surrender unto Him. That is bhdgavata-
dharma.

Bhagavata-dharma is not a concocted sectarian belief, for it entails
research to find how everything is connected with Krsna (isavasyam
idam sarvam). According to the Vedic injunctions, sarvam khalv idarn
brahma: Brahman, the Supreme, is present in everything. Bhagavata-
dharma captures this presence of the Supreme. Bhagavata-dharma does
not consider everything in the world to be false. Because everything
emanates from the Supreme, nothing can be false; everything has some
use in the service of the Supreme. For example, we are now dictating
into a microphone and recording on a dictating machine, and thus we are
finding how the machine can be connected to the Supreme Brahman.
Since we are using this machine in the service of the Lord, it is Brahman.
This is the meaning of sarvam khalv idam brahma. Everything is Brah-
man because everything can be used for the service of the Supreme Lord.
Nothing is mithyd, false; everything is factual.
