Chanting Hare Krishna cleanses the heart's mirror, extinguishing material existence's blazing fire and revealing our eternal nature as Krishna's servants.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture at Wayside Chapel — May 13, 1971, Sydney 710513LE-SYDNEY [30:52 Minutes] Lecture_710513LE-SYDNEY [kīrtana—Prabhupāda urging the audience, "Chant! Chant!" "Ask them to chant."] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances] Bali-mardana: He wants to make an introduction. [06:22] Australian man: Just at this point we'd like to welcome tonight Swami Bhaktivedanta here, as well as all of you who are participating in this Family of Man meeting. The Wayside Chapel, of course, is the home of world religion.
As a matter of fact, in two weeks' time..., in three weeks' time the Sikh community will conduct their major festival here and feast in this very theater, and everybody is invited to share with the Sikh community on that particular Sunday. So that's part of our program. And therefore it's perfectly natural that this evening we should have in our presence such a renowned world leader of a religious movement, which we have watched with great interest from the Wayside Chapel, and we are very honored that the Swami should be in our presence this evening. And in a few moments' time we're going to invite him to speak just as long as he wishes to speak to the whole community which is present. And after that, as usual, in connection with our Family of Man meetings here on Wednesday night, there will be ample opportunity for questions and discussion. I think nothing more needs to be said, except to say that we want you to feel very much at home.
Everybody here is most anxious to hear what you have to say. The Wayside Chapel originally began... [break] [07:49] Prabhupāda: So Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to place before you our views on saṅkīrtana movement all over the world. This saṅkīrtana movement, don't take it as a religious movement. As you generally understand in the Western countries, the word religion is used as "a kind of faith." Faith you can change.
Today you are Christian; tomorrow you can become Hindu. But religion cannot be changed. What we mean by the exact word, Sanskrit word, corresponding to religion is dharma, d-h-a-r-m-a. That dharma is different thing from the word religion. Religion is generally understood as a kind of faith, but dharma is not like that.
Dharma you cannot change. Just like water. Water is liquid. You cannot make it solid.
If water becomes solid, then it is not in the natural state. If you can... You can say the water becomes sometimes solid by less temperature under certain condition. But the tendency of water is to become liquid again.
Water cannot stand solid for good. This is called dharma, religion. Or, say, take it for example, a stone. Stone is solid.