Religion cannot be manufactured by anyone; only the Supreme God enacts true dharma through authorized spiritual masters.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.3.18–19 at Śrī Kṛṣṇa-niketana — February 12, 1971, Gorakhpur 710212SB-GORAKPHUR [47:25 Minutes] SB-06.03.18–19_710212SB-GORAKPHUR Devotee: [introducing recording] Prabhupāda's morning lecture of the 12th February, 1971, at the new place, Niketana, Śrī Kṛṣṇa-niketana, in Gorakhpur.
Prabhupāda: bhūtāni viṣṇoḥ sura-pūjitāni durdarśa-liṅgāni mahādbhutāni rakṣanti tad-bhaktimataḥ parebhyo mattaś ca martyān atha sarvataś ca [SB 6.3.18] So the devotees are protected by the Viṣṇudūtas always, constantly. They are invisibly wandering all over the universe. We may see or not see, because we cannot see spiritual body with these material eyes. So even we do not see, the Viṣṇudūta is always protecting the devotees from the enemies. As I have explained yesterday, devotees will have enemies.
Kṛṣṇa had enemies. This world is such: envious. Ordinarily, they are envious. The whole world is full of enviousness.
Even the greatest personalities like Indra, he is also envious. If somebody is undergoing great austerities, the Indra becomes envious. Just like Viśvāmitra. Viśvāmitra was meditating by the yoga process. Immediately Indra became disturbed: "Oh, this man is practicing so much severe austerities.
He may capture my post some day. So this man must be curbed down immediately." Just like in political party, everyone is thinking, "Oh, this man is becoming greater than me. So he should be curbed down; he should be checked. Otherwise, some day he may occupy my ministership." This is the position of the world.
Everyone is envious. So the devotees have, I mean to say, enemies. But the Viṣṇudūta protects, as Kṛṣṇa says, that kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati [Bg. 9.31]: "My dear Arjuna, you can declare on My behalf that a devotee will never be... A pure devotee..." Always remember—a pure devotee. Devotee means a pure devotee.
Contaminated devotee is different. Dvidha[?]-bhakta and śuddha-bhakta. Those who are contaminated with material desires, with fruitive activities and mental speculation, they are contaminated devotees. They are not pure devotees. Pure devotees means anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam [Brs. 1.1.11(1)], no material desire, no action and fruitive activities, no mental speculation.