If someone insults us but we don’t feel angry whereas others feel we should be angry what is happening to us?

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so if you feel, somebody insults us but if we don’t feel upset or angry about it when others feel that we should feel upset and angry so what exactly happens? for all of us we all are of different natures and based on different natures we all have certain understandings of what is important so some people their nature is that they don’t like conflicts so basically when there is a problem there are three solutions, three ways of dealing with it change ourselves, change the situation or just walk away from the situation to somewhere else now some people feel that this is just not a not a battle big enough to fight I have better things to do in my life this person spoke like this, ok something happened, let it get over with so now these people who are of a more or less confrontational nature there is an advantage and there is a disadvantage to it the disadvantage to it is that sometimes something which they have worked for a long time also if somebody just tries to take it away from them, they give it up if it is not worth fighting but the advantage is that these people can they themselves can avoid a lot of conflicts because, see I will give you an example when Prabhupada had the League of Devotees in Jhansi some local people worked like a clique against him and they wanted to use that for some social service work some other work so Prabhupada felt that he had the legal deed and he could fight for it he thought ok what is the use of fighting he says I have renounced household life I renounced my business now I don’t want to go to a court and keep fighting cases for this and anyway he thought that Jhansi is not a very big place, the people here are also not very serious so to try to fight to hold on to this place when this place is actually not really very substantially helping me to further my spiritual master’s mission it’s not worth fighting he just walked away from there so now some people may walk away because they feel that a particular battle is not worth fighting because they feel I have something more important to do and I will focus on that if it doesn’t work out here, I will work out somewhere else now some people may not fight because they are just apathetic that means in an external sense sometimes goodness and ignorance can look similar both of them are sitting peacefully but in ignorance the person’s mind is wandering here and they are wildly out of control in goodness the person’s mind is focused attentively processing what is happening so if somebody gives up some things just because the trouble is too much and one doesn’t want to get involved in it one just quits that could be in the mode of ignorance so I would say there is a difference between walking away and running away in running away we are just scared of what is happening and just want to get out of it in walking away we understand that I have something more important to do so if I don’t want to get involved in this business of organizational politics and you know clarifying, counter clarifying arguing, counter arguing I just want to practice my bhakti, I just want to chant Hare Krishna I want to do service and I want to move on that means if we give up something because we feel that it is not in the ultimate analysis so big enough and I have something bigger to do in my life then that is in goodness, that is detachment so now generally a brahmana is like that and the problem is that with a brahmana unless the brahmana works as a kshatriya the brahmana cannot really do much do much unless the brahmana is a kshatriya brahmana will not, brahmana will do a class and just leave it is kshatriya who makes sure that people come for the program kshatriya does follow up, kshatriya does cultivate kshatriya basically you know in a sense kshatriyas want control, they want power they may use that control and power for good purposes also but they want control and power, brahmanas are simply simply give knowledge, those who want to be benefited they will be benefited so Prabhupada said our Krishna consciousness movement we need brahmanas with a kshatriya spirit we need brahmanas but not just brahmanas because pure brahmanas if Prabhupada had been just pure brahmana only just somewhere in India giving some bhagavad katha irrespective of how many people were coming but a kshatriya is one who wants to actually do practical things to change society so it is if a person is too much of a brahmana in a movement like ISKCON then that person will often be pushed around here and there so we need to have some kshatriya spirit also that if we have worked for something it should be preserved, it should not be taken away from us but in a way you have to understand that most people may not have that brahminical level of detachment and if they don’t have that brahminical level of detachment then they will get quite worked up about it so we can introspect in our heart and see whether after giving up something which is troubling what are we doing are we just delighting in the fact that now I don’t have any trouble or are we exerting ourselves to do something else in Krishna’s service so if we give up one service or one arena of service, one form of service to take up some other service somewhere else then we are well situated the other people might be very emotionally invested in something and they might feel you should get angry, you should fight you may not be so emotionally invested and you may feel yes, leave it, go somewhere else continue on, so both approaches are fine a lot will depend on situation, nature and we should basically practice practicing bhakti, the most important principle which I feel is anukulyasya sankalpa bhakti kullyasya vajna accept that which is favourable, avoid that which is unfavourable so whatever is favourable for our consciousness, for our service, for our growth we accept that and we move on, is that clear