True dharma is immutable law from God; neither beliefs nor philosophies can change what God has ordained.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.45–50 — December 31, 1970, Surat 701231SB-SURAT [73:15 Minutes] SB-06.01.45–50_701231SB-SURAT Prabhupāda: …dharmo veha samīhitaḥ sa eva tat-phalaṁ bhuṅkte tathā tāvad amutra vai [SB 6.1.45] So as you have understood that dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam [SB 6.3.19]... Dharma, it is explained further what is meant by dharma. Dharma means natural characteristics. Dharma does not mean something sentiment.
No. The people are taking sentimental value—"I believe in this." "I believe in Hinduism," "I believe in Christianism," "I believe in Muhammadanism." But dharma is not like that. Now today you are Christian; you can change to Hinduism, or a Christian can turn into Muhammadanism. So you can change it, so after all you can change—that is not dharma. Try to understand this important point.
That is not dharma. Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam [SB 6.3.19]. You cannot change anything which is made by the Supreme Lord. Just like, take for example, the sun is rising from the eastern horizon.
You cannot say, "Let the sun be rising from the western horizon." That you cannot say. You cannot improve with any law of God or nature. That is not possible. Supreme dharma is sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam. If it is the order or the injunction of the Supreme Lord, how you can change it?
The dharma which you can change, that is not dharma. And dharma is eternal to Kṛṣṇa: sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ [Bg. 18.66]. That is dharma. And all others, cheating.
That is..., I am not speaking these strong words; it is stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Cheating. Dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo 'tra [SB 1.1.2], the cheating religion is completely swept away, projjhita. [indistinct] Just like one uses broomstick to drive away all the garbage things from the room, similarly, the Bhāgavata says dharmaḥ projjhita, the garbage cheating process of religious system is completely thrown away. And that garbage system of religion is also remarked by Śrīdhara Svāmī as mokṣa-vāñchā, desperation of becoming liberated.
That is also cheating. So dharma cannot change. Now I have decided to inform you in your city I have seen two temples, they are known as Rāmānandī, and there is no Rāma. Audience: [chuckling] Prabhupāda: You see? This cheating is going on, and you are accepting. There is no Rāma, there is no Rāma Deity worship, and the main [indistinct] is to see the Rāma.