Lord Caitanya distributes divine love through bhakti-yoga, making Krishna's grace accessible to all who sincerely chant and surrender.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture [partially recorded] — March 27, 1972, Bombay 720327LE-BOMBAY [17:26 Minutes] C-130 Lecture_720327LE-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: …ignorance, this is ignorance. Therefore jñāna and vairāgya is stressed here. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Śrī Kṛṣṇa.... Śrī Kṛṣṇa, our original father, ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pita [Bg. 14.4], He is not very happy to see that we are struggling very hard within this material world for sense gratification. Only our objective is sense gratification.
Therefore He comes out of compassion: yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati [Bg. 4.7]. As soon as people forget the principles of religion, dharmasya glānir bhavati…, abhyutthānam adharmasya, as soon as people become irreligious, then as soon as the people become without any religion, the irreligious principles flourish, abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham [Bg. 4.7]. At that time Kṛṣṇa, God, comes: paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām [Bg. 4.8]. Now this vināśāya and paritrāṇāya, both contradictory. He is killing the demons and He is giving protection to the devotees, but the result is one. The killing devotees means that they are also being promoted to the spiritual world.
Anyone who is killed by God, Kṛṣṇa, he immediately gets liberation from material bondage. Therefore Kṛṣṇa's killing and Kṛṣṇa's petting, there is no difference. Advayam: they are the same. So Kṛṣṇa comes when there is discrepancies in the religious principles. He comes down.
In this age, the Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Kṛṣṇa directly ordered this sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁśaraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66], but we could not take it very nicely. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā [Bg. 9.11]. Even a great philosopher, he says that “This is too much.
Why Kṛṣṇa says that sarva-dharmān parityajya?” He says sophist. But actually that is not the fact. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He has the right to ask like that: sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁśaraṇaṁ vraja. That He is asking.
Just like father can ask, can oblige, can ask very strongly his son, “You must do it.” But it is up to the son to do it or not to do it. That choice is always there. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa says that “You have created so many religions, but real religion, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁśaraṇaṁ vraja.” The other day some gentleman was asking me, “So why there are so many religions?” The reply is that so many... Religion is one.
God is one; religion is one, because religion means the codes, the law given by God. So this law is this, that: sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁśaraṇaṁ vraja. So therefore religion is one, but because we are disobedient to the orders of God, or Kṛṣṇa, we have manufactured so many religions. So they are not actually religions.