210 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 15

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dharma-badho vidharmah syat
para-dharmo ’nya-coditah

upadharmas tu pakhando
dambho va Sabda-bhic chalah

dharma-badhah—obstructs the execution of one’s own religious prin-
ciples; vidharmah—against the principles of religion; syat—should be;
para-dharmah—imitating religious systems for which one is unfit;
anya-coditah—which is introduced by someone else; upadharmah—
concocted religious principles; tu—indeed; pakhandah—by one who is
against the principles of Vedas, standard scriptures; dambhah—who is
falsely proud; va—or; sabda-bhit—by word jugglery; chalah—a cheat-
ing religious system.

TRANSLATION

Religious principles that obstruct one from following his own
religion are called vidharma. Religious principles introduced by
others are called para-dharma. A new type of religion created by
one who is falsely proud and who opposes the principles of the
Vedas is called upadharma. And interpretation by one’s jugglery of
words is called chala-dharma.

PURPORT

To create a new type of dharma has become fashionable in this age.
So-called svamis and yogis support that one may follow any type of
religious system, according to one’s own choice, because all systems are
ultimately the same. In Srimad-Bhagavatam, however, such fashionable
ideas are called vidharma because they go against one’s own religious
system. The real religious system is described by the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam Saranam
vraja. The real religious system is that of surrender to the lotus feet of
the Lord. In the Sixth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, in connection with
