Is it appropriate to speak directly on the Bhagavatam to new people?

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Some devotees discuss mostly about Krishna and other devotees may discuss so if you have to speak according to circumstances how do you do that? Yes there are different devotees with different inspiration and you should also recognize that not all devotees even if they are very learned it is not necessary that all devotees will be suitable for giving classes to new people especially if you are doing specialized teaching to a niche audience sometimes there may be some devotees who are very learned in Bhagavatam and Krishna Katha but if we have a forum of scientifically oriented students or corporate people, they will not be able to connect with so it is it is our, we should take up the responsibility to have appropriate devotees connected with new people especially after they become devotionally oriented then they will also become Sagarai and they focus on the devotional aspect and there will be some devotional aspect but if there are that’s why it is not that every senior devotee can speak to new people they may be able to speak but they may not feel inspired to speak also so we have to see what is the inspiration of those devotees and it is actually if somebody is very learned in Bhagavatam and we take them to speak an online program on the art of mind control or something like that we are underutilizing them actually so they can speak at a much deeper level and more inspiring for devotees and there are other devotees who can speak on basic topics.
Now it is not that somebody who speaks on basic topics is a less advanced devotee and somebody who speaks on advanced topics is an advanced devotee no, Prabhupada often spoke on basic topics because he felt that was the need of the audience now at the same time now we have a Krishna conscious movement where there are devotees who are 6 months old and there may be devotees who are 20-30 years old so they all need to be nourished and then we just cannot have if you have a university where there are 1st year students, 2nd year students 3rd year students, suppose there is a PhD program there are 10-12 year students, a school you can’t have one teacher for all students for 1st standard students you may have different teachers, for 12th standard students you may have different teachers, for postgraduate you may have different teachers so like that in our movement also for different devotees and different people there will be different teachers that’s why we will see that when there is programs for new people, it is not that every senior devotee can give programs to new people just like simply speaking we take kirtans when there are kirtans to be done it is not that every senior devotee is automatically a good singer of kirtans so if they are not a good singer of kirtans, then there will be some younger devotees who are good singers of kirtans they will be asked to do kirtans at that time and that’s perfectly fine and usually the senior devotees understand this point that yeah, many devotees may not even like to do programs for new people just arrange programs for devotees some devotees can speak nicely some devotees can speak nicely it’s not that at one level we could say anybody who hears about Krishna is purified that is true but purification is a process and our purpose in connecting new people or arranging programs for new people is not just to purify them one time it is to inspire them to join the process of purification so yeah if you organize a one time program and we have a devotee who speaks just pure Krishna katha we have university students who don’t even have a doubt whether Krishna exists or not and then we have the prayers of the demigods to Matsya avatar and we have a one time program on that topic so yeah they will be purified by that but that will not inspire them to come for future classes and get purified on a regular basis so the initial stages when we are giving classes it should be to inspire them to start the process of bhakti and once they start the process of bhakti then they will come regularly and then Krishna katha will purify them so the process of education and the process of purification should not be mixed up any kind of Krishna katha is purifying but it is not that any kind of Krishna katha is educating if there is an educational forum then at that time there has to be education so just like now in India you are having a course now if you are having a course in Dashamun Tattva and somebody comes and starts speaking in Chaitanjala Tantra that is also purifying but that is not education so initially when we are teaching new people the purpose there is education and through the education also purification happens but still there is definitely intersection between these two circles of education and purification but the two are not identical the two are not interchangeable and we should not think the two as equivalent any kind of Krishna katha is purifying but every kind of Krishna katha is non-educational so the purpose is educational and keep that purpose in mind and have those devotees who can serve the educational purpose and they will be able to present properly by which people will start hearing Krishna katha for the purpose of purification on a regular basis