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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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That is the human life. You prepare yourself for higher standard of life or to make a permanent solution of your miserable condition of life, namely birth, death, old age and disease. This is required. This is human business, or dharma.
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[[Vanisource:731111 - Lecture SB 01.02.06 - Delhi|731111 - Lecture SB 01.02.06 - Delhi]]
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That is the human life. You prepare yourself for higher standard of life or to make a permanent solution of your miserable condition of life, namely birth, death, old age and disease. This is required. This is human business, or dharma.

So how you can attain that dharma? Dharma means the occupational duty. dharma is not a sentiment. Practically, nowadays people have taken dharma, "religious" means . . . "religion" means a kind of faith. But that is not the description of the Vedic śāstra. Faith you can change. Today you are Hindu; tomorrow you can become Muslim. Or today you are Muslim; tomorrow you can become Christian. You can change your faith. But that is not religion. Change of faith or accepting some faith, that is not religion. Religion means which you cannot change. Even if you become from Hindu to Muslim or from Muslim to Christian, that your occupational duty, you cannot change. Take, for example, suppose you are a government servant. You are serving in the secretariat. But tomorrow you become Hindu or Muslim or Christian. But do you mean to say that your service in the government will be changed also? No. That will continue.

So real business means we have to serve somebody. That is explained by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Jīvera svarūpa haya nitya-kṛṣṇa-dāsa ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 20.108-109|CC Madhya 20.108-109]]). Our real business, our real occupation, is to serve Kṛṣṇa, God. That is our . . . that service spirit, because we have forgotten God, or Kṛṣṇa, we are serving somebody else. That is called māyā. We have to serve. Nobody can say . . . in this meeting there are so many ladies and gentlemen. Nobody can say that, "I do not serve anyone. I am free." That is not possible. You must have to serve. And that service is called dharma.

Just like salt is salty taste; sugar is sweet taste. The sweet taste is the dharma of sugar. The pungent taste of chili, that is the dharma. It cannot change. If sugar is salty, you do not accept, "Oh, this is not sugar." Similarly, living entity has got a permanent occupational duty. That is service. That service is being carried on in different names: "Service of the family," "Service of the country," "Service of the community," "Service of the nation," "Service of the humanity"—so many names. But there is service. But this service cannot be complete unless the service goes up to the transcendental loving service of Kṛṣṇa. That is perfection of service, and that is called dharma. Try to understand what is dharma.
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