If we can’t follow certain standards while practically living in the world how should we adjust?

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So, if we have to, practically living in the world, we cannot follow certain standards. Then what should we do? See, it is not that all standards are of equal importance. They are trying to fix the ground, that’s a vow.
Following the four aggregate principles, that’s a vow. Apart from that, there are many other things which are favorable for man. But they are not like vows.
Those, how we adjust, that’s up to time and circumstance. It’s like, say, we can have a scale of standards. The highest standard of prasadam can be food that is made such that grains are sowed by devotees, harvested by devotees, it is cooked by devotees, it is served by devotees, it is honored by devotees.
That is the highest standard. From that point onwards, we can have various levels. We can also have food that is cooked outside, but it is offered and it is honored by devotees.
So, all is a continuum. The higher the standard, the better it is. But if somebody says, you know, I need no vegetarian, that is an absolute no-no.
So, from this standard to this standard, food which is completely in a devotional process, and food that is last offered to Krishna and then taken. All this is within the acceptable range. But below that, that is unacceptable.
So, like that, within this acceptable range, where we situate ourselves, that will depend on our time, place, circumstance. That’s something which is adjustable. We use our God-given intelligence and understand how I can best function in the situation and act accordingly.