The life and teaching of Krishna has helped the people of India very much in broadening the thought of the pious. The religious man, full of dogmas, is often apt to make dogmas too rigid and expects the godly or the God-conscious to fit in with this standard of goodness. If they do not fit in with his particular idea of piety, he is ready to criticize them. But the thought and life of Krishna was used by the artist, the poet, and the musician to make a new religion recognizing the divine in natural human life. That idea of considering a spiritual person exclusive, remote, stone-like, and lifeless ceased to exist. The people of India became much more tolerant toward all different aspects of life, looking at the whole life at the same time as an immanence of God.