Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 12.3.35
Ūti· What drives us to actCheating Must Not Become Respectable
“Businessmen will engage in petty commerce and earn their money by cheating. Even when there is no emergency, people will consider any degraded occupation quite acceptable.”
What the purport teaches
- The verse predicts businessmen engaging in petty commerce and earning money by cheating.
- People will accept degraded occupations even when there is no emergency. The purport emphasizes that they do so although other occupations are available.
- Treating cheating and lying as respectable business practices is a symptom of the Age of Kali.
Try this today
In one transaction today, make sure your words and claims are fully truthful.
Ask yourself
Have you begun accepting any dishonest practice simply because it is common?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
From Canto 10, chapter 14 onward, the translation and purports were completed by Śrīla Prabhupāda's disciples after his departure, and published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.