Hindi-How can we work with nondevotees at our job without associating with them?

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How can we work in other fields? Now, some people are such that when we talk about good qualities and bad qualities, we can see it from two perspectives. One is materially and the other is spiritually. What does materially mean? Now, the hippies had very bad qualities, but they had receptivity spiritually.

They were committing a lot of sins. They were committing a lot of sins for good qualities, but they were a little open-minded about spirituality. Now, some people are such that they are only atheists.

Many people whom we call atheists, whom we call atheists, are actually in three categories. One is non-theist. What does non-theist mean? It means that they have no place for God in their lives.

They have not thought much about whether God exists or not. God is not very important for them. People who call themselves atheists have not thought much about it.

Such people are a little open-minded. But some people are anti-theists. What does anti-theist mean? It means that they promote atheism.

There is an atheist in the UK. He is such a famous atheist, you can say he is very famous, that he is awarded the International Award. International Award for the Best Atheist of the Year.

He is awarded the International Award for Richard Dawkins Award for Raising Human Consciousness. He says that atheism is very primitive. What does it mean to raise human consciousness? Enlighten people and bring them to atheism.

That is what he says. Some people are non-theists, but they are aggressive non-theists. We call them Prem Maitri Krupo Peksha.

What is the essential point? If I am here and a person is here, I am helping him to get up. This is good. That person can get down, but can help me to get up.

But sometimes what happens? That person pulls us down. If that is happening, then we have to keep away from him. How can he pull us down? There are three ways.

Mainly two. Desires and doubts. We get a lot of materialistic desires from his company.

He is a bad company. Secondly, we get a lot of doubts from his company. This is not a bad thing.

But if a person is filled with doubts, then he will not be able to do anything. If desires and doubts are increasing from someone’s company, then we have to stay away from him. We have to see how bad the person is.

If I am a doctor and a patient is sick, then we have to treat him. But if we don’t have protective gear and that person is not following the rules, is not wearing a mask, then if we go to treat him, we will fall sick. That is why we have to protect ourselves.

And… Prabhupada ji was also like that. He used to stay away from people. He didn’t keep chasing people.

If people were not interested, Prabhupada ji used to say, okay. A lot of scholars used to come to meet him. Some scholars were influenced by him.

They were attracted to him. But nothing happened. Some became anti.

It is possible. We cannot avoid that. In the second quadrant, you were saying that people are showing off.

We have to see why they are showing off. Do they want to exploit or do they just want to show off that they are a good person? If they are showing off only because of their culture, if someone comes to a temple, they say that they also come to a temple, they also do bhakti, there is a temple in their house. That is fine.

They may not be doing bhakti. But they want to exploit something. Then we have to stay away from them.

Some people were like this. When Prabhupada ji used to come, they used to say, Swamiji, he came to the temple, he started dancing, he started singing in the temple, and then he started roaming on the ground. He started showing off his bhakti.

Prabhupada ji did not pay attention to them at all. He said, I don’t want such sentimentalist people. He became very emotional.

Prabhupada ji did not appreciate them at all. So I think people’s motive happens in two ways, by talking and with time. They get to know their motive from time.

And when they talk, they get to know their motive from their words. Thank you. You had a question? Hello Krishna.

Prabhuji, thank you for the lecture. I had a question. Prabhupada ji’s Guru Maharaj did not give him instructions to go to America and preach.

So how did he get inspired to go to uncertain places and preach? Hmm. Good question. Prabhupada ji, why did he go to America to preach? I think,