It is not a kind of faith. Characteristic, or occupational duty. So generally it means characteristic. The characteristic is that every living being, it does not mean, whether it is animal or human being or trees or plants or insect . . . (feedback sound)
(aside) What is it?
Every living being has a particular characteristic that is visible in all kinds of forms of living being. That is service.
Everyone is rendering service. Here we have so many ladies and gentlemen present, but every one of us is rendering some service to the superior. That is our position. The animals also, the inferior animals, they are rendering service to the superior animal. The superior animal is eating the inferior animal, jīvo jīvasya jīvanam (SB 1.13.47). Big snake is eating small snake. There is a verse in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, apadānam catuṣ-padām.
Those who are two-legged, they are eating the four-legged. And the four-legged animals, they are eating who cannot walk. Apadānam catuṣ-padām. Those who cannot move—just like grass, plants, trees, they cannot move—they are being eaten up by the four-legged animals. And the four-legged animals are being by . . . eaten by the two-legged animals, human being. Just try to understand how this weaker section is serving this stronger section. That is the law of nature. Jīvo jīvasya jīvanam. One living entity is the food or . . . living means for another living entity, by nature's law. So the conclusion is that we must serve . . . must render service to the strong. This is nature's law.
Now that being position, we all living entities, we are weaker, and the strongest is the Supreme Lord; therefore our business is to render service to the Supreme Lord. We are rendering service to the stronger section, but the strongest of all stronger is the Supreme Lord. Therefore the conclusion is that our normal position is to render service to God. This is the conclusion. We cannot say that, "We don't care for God." That we cannot say. We are so dependent on God's mercy that we cannot say.
Just like today, this evening, when we were coming in this hall, there was heavy rain. So this heavy rain . . . I am coming from India, and other parts there is drought. There is no rainfall; they are suffering for want of rainfall. But in Australia, especially in Sydney, I see there is good rainfall. So how the distinction can be adjusted? In some places there is no rainfall, but here we have got sufficient rainfall at the present moment. It is God's mercy. You cannot do it. Where there is shortage of rainfall, they cannot bring in rainfall by their scientific advancement of knowledge. That is not possible.