How should we behave with non-religious people?
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How should one behave with non-religious people or people who are not Krishna Consciousness so actually even among the people who are not practicing any kind of spirituality we also need to know that they can also be in goodness, passion or ignorance sattva guna, rajo guna, tamo guna and depending on the more that they are in they may be attracted to different things in their own lives so when we are dealing with them we need to conduct ourselves in a way that we become a connecting link between them and Krishna so if we see that they are just non-spiritualist we are seeing them partially even if they are non-spiritualist they are also souls who are parts of God and they also need love for God as much as everyone else so by focusing not on their present conduct but focusing on their spiritual essence and the need of their spiritual essence we can act appropriately now we don’t have to necessarily push down any philosophy in our first interaction or even in our second or third interaction we can if people after interacting with devotees with spiritualists feel that oh I met a nice person, this person is an intelligent person and they are living some life of principles that itself will create a jnana sukruti for them so we don’t have to flaunt our spirituality in front of others just to show them how spiritual we are, we can act in a way that they get a positive impression of Krishna and his devotees and how much they will come closer to Krishna that is up to them, so if they have some questions we can try to answer in the most intelligible possible way not just give the right answer but give the right answer in the right way by which they get a proper understanding and rather than judging non-devotees to be non-devotees we can see them as essentially devotees who are covered by a non-demotional layer right now and we have the opportunity to behave in a way that their non-devotional covering can be removed and that they can come closer to Krishna