Can we have a relationship with someone without reciprocation from them?
So in our relationship with people can we also be have a relationship without any reciprocation is there any expectation of reciprocation or dependence on reciprocation it depends on the nature of the relationship there has to be reciprocation at some level or the other so if there are some say parents they take care of the children but it is not that the children parents may want that the child should become a devotee but if there are two children one child becomes a devotee other child doesn't become a devotee parents should still love both the children it is not that parents reject the child just because he doesn't become a devotee something like that now that love should be there always in the relationship but there are different ways of expressing that love you know we but on the other hand there are other relationships which are not exactly not exactly obligatory if we are going somewhere for if you are doing preaching somewhere you're going somewhere for a program and people don't care for you only over there then if you have some other forum where you can go and there people are really interested in hearing then it's not that just by going somewhere where people are not interested in hearing we become more purified because we are not getting any reciprocation therefore we are practicing unmotivated bhakti no that is not unmotivated bhakti that is unintelligent bhakti so we could have said Prabhupada could have done that you know Prabhupada could have just kept preaching in India India India no nobody is coming i am getting purified well yes but the one purpose of preaching is that we want to get purified but we also want to share Krishnaans in each others so it is not that if somebody is not interested in reciprocating at all you don't have to spend too much time in it that will vary upon a specific nature of the relationship but there has to be some level of reciprocation required and the extent of the reciprocation the nature of the reciprocation that will vary according to the relationship the time, place, circumstances in that relationship also.