True dharma is eternal service to Krishna, not manufactured religions that lead only to temporary bodily satisfaction.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture at Bhāratīya Vidyā Bhavān — October 18, 1973, Bombay 731018LE-BOMBAY [22:15 Minutes] Lecture_731018LE-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: [chants maṅgalācaraṇa prayers] ...jñānāñjana-śalākayā cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-[gurave namaḥ] śrī-caitanya-mano 'bhīṣṭaṁ sthāpitaṁ yena bhū-tale svayaṁ rūpaḥ kadā mahyaṁ dadāti sva-padāntikam he kṛṣṇa karuṇā-sindho dīna-bandho jagat-pate gopeśa gopīkā-kānta rādhā-kānta namo 'stu te tapta-kāñcana-gaurāṅgī rādhe vṛndāvaneśvari vṛṣabhānu-sute devi praṇamāmi hari-priye vāñchā-kalpatarubhyaś ca kṛpā-sindhubhya eva ca patitānāṁ pāvanebhyo vaiṣṇavebhyo namo namaḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare hare rāma hare rāma rāma rāma hare hare Śrīman Nandajī, Ladies and Gentlemen, this scarcity of Kṛṣṇa consciousness was felt long, long ago. When, before starting this movement, I tried to approach many friends in India... Sometimes I think I approached late Mr. Munshi also, when he was governor in U.P.
I requested that everyone may contribute a son from the family so that I can convert him an actual brāhmaṇa. Because the education at the present moment is creating śūdras. Actually, there are two kinds of dharmas: paśu-dharma and mānava-dharma. Paśu-dharma means eating, sleeping, sexual intercourse and defending. This is paśu-dharma. Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca sāmānyam etat paśubhiḥ narānām [Hitopadeśa].
Eating, this is essential. Try to understand what is dharma. Dharma means which you cannot give up. Dharma does not mean you accept this dharma today, and tomorrow another dharma.
That is not dharma. Dharma means the natural characteristic. Just like sugar is sweet. That is its dharma.
And chili is hot. That is its dharma. A snake bites. That is his dharma.
Water is liquid. That is its dharma. Stone is solid. That is its dharma.
You cannot change. So what is the dharma of the living entities, or the human being? Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has enunciated the dharma of the human being: jīvera svarūpa haya nitya kṛṣṇa-dāsa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. This is dharma, that every living entity is eternally servant of Kṛṣṇa. He cannot give it up.