Text 7] The Perfect Society: Four Social Classes 29
PURPORT

As stated by Yamaraja, dharmam tu sdaksdd bhagavat-pranitam.
Yamaraja, the representative of the Lord who takes care of the living
beings after their death, gives his verdict as to how and when the living
being will change his body. He is the authority, and he says that the
religious principles consist of the codes and laws given by God. No one
can manufacture religion, and therefore manufactured religious systems
are rejected by the followers of the Vedic principles. In Bhagavad-gita
(15.15) it is said, vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: Vedic knowledge
means to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna.
Therefore, whether one speaks of the Vedas, scriptures, religion or the
principles of everyone’s occupational duty, all of them must aim at
understanding Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Srimad-
Bhagavatam (1.2.6) therefore concludes:

sa vai pumsam paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhoksaje
ahaituky apratihata
yayatmé suprasidati
In other words, religious principles aim at learning how to render tran-
scendental loving service to the Lord. That service must be unmotivated
and unchecked by material conditions. Then human society will be
happy in all respects.

The smrti, the scriptures following the principles of Vedic knowledge,
are considered the evidence of Vedic principles. There are twenty dif-
ferent types of scripture for following religious principles, and among
them the scriptures of Manu and Y4Ajfiavalkya are considered to be all-
pervading authorities. In the Ydjiavalkya-smrti it is said:

Sruti-smrti-sadacadrah
svasya ca priyam dtmanah
samyak sankalpajah kamo
dharma-milam idam smrtam
One should learn human behavior from Sruti, the Vedas, and from smrti,
the scriptures following the Vedic principles. Srila Rapa Gosvami in his
Bhakti-rasémrta-sindhu says:
