If we feel social pressure to do some service other than what we feel inspired to do, which service should we choose?

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so if we have social pressure in a particular situation to do a particular thing how do we deal with that so in general when we are practicing bhakti there is a dynamic tension between having freedom and having facility what it means is if we want freedom we won’t have facilities if we want facility we won’t have freedom that’s how it works so if we feel strongly inspired to do something then we won’t get facilities from one facility is its support from others because whenever there is a particular particular system in place the focus of that system the focus of the leaders of that system will be on maintaining that, expanding that it’s not that doing something else is wrong but it’s unreasonable for us to expect them to facilitate us because their energy is going to be focused on doing what they are inspired to do so in the initial stages of our life initial stages of our spiritual life it’s important that we focus more on doing what we are told to do so that we learn the virtues of submission we learn how things work we learn what all we can do but over a period of time if we feel inspired to do something as long as it is not as long as we are not earning the disapproval of others then if we feel very determined to do something we can do it the important thing is that we don’t alienate or hurt others in order to get the space to do what we want to do we don’t have to criticize what others are doing it’s not that they are wrong and we are right or that we are wrong and they are right it is just that we all have different inspirations in our bhakti, we all can have and Shri Raghoba has made a big enough house where we all can serve Krishna in different ways so we will have to decide that if we want the facility of social approval within the devotee community we will have to do that which is the focus of that particular society that particular social group if we want the freedom of doing what we feel inspired to do then we have to tolerate not getting social approval but either way we shouldn’t spoil relationships we shouldn’t think that whoever is not supporting us they are bad people or basically we should maintain good relationships and then at a practical level do what is the best for our spiritual growth and in general over a period of time, see what happens is if we have served in a competent consistent way for some amount of time then the senior devotee is also see that we are trustworthy and then they will give us the freedom ok if you feel inspired to do that you do that they may not facilitate because the facilities are limited and they may use those facilities for doing what they feel inspired to do but at least they see that ok you have an idea you can do it so we should generally work in such a way that cordiality and amicability is maintained in relationships but if we feel strongly inspired to do something we should know that we will have to do it with our initiative we shouldn’t think that others will necessarily help us because and it’s not that they are unhelpful it’s just that everybody has their priorities even in the service to Krishna does it answer your question?