We are contaminating so many qualities of nature, and we are making our concoction, manufacturing our duty. A drunkard, because he has mixed with the quality of drunkards, he thinks, "Drinking is my duty." When you mix with the hippies, then you become like the hippies, "Oh, it is my duty," unless you cannot stay in the society of the hippies.
So these occupational duties, this is faith. He thinks that, "This is my duty." "Oh, as Hindu, I have to do it," "As Christian, I must believe it," "As Muslim, I must do it." But here it is stated, sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje (SB 1.2.6). Bhakti.
This is real dharma. Except bhakti, they are all pseudo. Therefore in the beginning of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said, dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavaḥ. All so-called cheating, pseudo-religious system is rejected. Dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavaḥ. Kaitava means cheating.
Cheating . . . just like Śrīdhara Svāmī says, dharma artha kāma mokṣa (SB 4.8.41, CC Adi 1.90), these are gradually progressive life. First of all, dharma. Unless one takes to some religious principle, he's not a human being. Dharmeṇa hīnāḥ paśubhiḥ samānāḥ (Hitopadeśa).
He's not a human, he's animal. Some sort of religious system the human being must follow. Therefore civilized man, either he's born in Western or Eastern country, he has got some religion. It may be Christian religion or Hindu religion or Muslim religion, Buddha religion. Any civilized man has some religion. That's a fact.
(aside) Don't sit like that.
So therefore dharma first. That is the beginning of humanity, human civilization. Otherwise animal. The animal, they don't say: "I am Christian," "I am Muhammadan," "I am Buddhist," "I am this." No. He's dog. He's cat. That's all. Finished. But a human being says: "I am . . . I belong to this religion. I belong to that religion." That is required first.
They are rejecting religion. The churches are vacant. That means they are becoming cats and dogs. That is not improvement. They are thinking that "I am now no more going to temple, no more going to church. I have become something, Communist" or something like that. "We don't care for these . . ." That means you have got . . . this is the certificate that you have become animal. The animal never says that, "I belong to this dharma or that dharma." No.
Therefore, distinction between animal and human being, that he must have some dharma. Dharma. And on religious principle, artha, economic development. Actually, if people become religious, then the economic development . . . economic . . . you require some money to maintain yourself. So they will never be dishonest. Dishonest.
In India still there are merchants, they would not take profit more than twenty-five percent, highest. There is no question of black market. "Now, I purchased this for one dollar. Oh, I am getting demand. I must charge five hundred times." No. That is irreligious. There are . . . everything there is prescribed that, "You cannot take more than this profit." So there was no black market, because people were religious.