In parts of India where people eat meat extensively how can we attract them to bhakti?

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So, if you’re in certain parts of India where people eat a lot of meat, and then how do we get them to come? Because either they come, few serious people come or most don’t come. Yeah, actually, it’s just I would say that Satvaguna, Rajaguna, Tamoguna, it’s always there.
And Vedic culture had processes for animating everyone. So, not everyone will come to Satvaguna immediately. Just like Kali worship was there, people can on Amavasya offer meat and eat meat, offer goat’s meat and eat meat.
So, like that there are facilities for people in Tamoguna also to be elevated. So, in general, Sri Prabhupada’s presentation of Krishna Consciousness requires Satvaguna. Not necessarily at the starting point, but very soon people have to be ready to come to Satvaguna.
Some people are just not ready. So, we can just, rather than rather than creating too much of a conflict with them, you know, trying to make them feel bad for not doing something, they’re just going to go away. If we find that they’re not ready to give it up, just end the interaction on a positive note and give them some prasad, encourage them to come to the temple and leave it at that.
There are even in today’s world people who are in Satvaguna. Or people who appreciate Satvaguna. And, see, even if they are right now in Rajoguna, Tamoguna, if they have appreciation for Satvaguna, the process of bhakti is so powerful that it can bring people to a mode of goodness also.
So, there will be enough people, see, if in the western world where eating meat is so common, there also people are taking it up. Slowly, but people are taking it up. So, in India also it’s possible.
In some places it will be more difficult. Some places it will be less difficult. But, there are people who are in mode of goodness or interested in the mode of goodness lifestyle.
And there are many people who are not. So, we just rather than demonizing those people or making them feel guilty or bad, just leave them over there. And they will grow at their pace.
Give them some prasad. Let them end the interaction in a way that they have some favorable impression of Krishna Consciousness. I am a nice person.
I can’t do what they are doing. But I am a nice person. I feel like that itself will help them to grow.
In this life or in the future life. And we can focus on people who are ready to come to the mode of goodness.