When Krishna says that we shouldn’t take his name in front of an atheist, why does ISKCON share the holy name publically?

From Utkarsh punkhia 

Sri Krishna has said in the gita that one shouldn’t take His name in front of an atheist.How is this in conjunction with Iskcon’s activities today and is this the greatest service that one can perform to please Krishna?

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Question by Utkarsh Pankhia. Lord Krishna has said in the Gita that one shouldn’t take his name in front of an atheist. How is this in conjunction with this cause of the Lord Krishna doesn’t exactly say that one shouldn’t take his name in front of the atheists.
The ninth offense against the holy name is to instruct faithful people in the glories of the holy name. So, what is the emphasis over here is that we need to teach people according to their level of faith. And if we teach people according to what they don’t according to the level of faith that they don’t have, then that will simply increase their skepticism.
So, once Shila Prabhupada was asked by some of his disciples, Shila Prabhupada, when we talked with the scholars and we wanted to tell them about the Bhakti, preached Bhagavatam to them, at that time when we tell them, let’s say, they tell some extraordinary statistics from the tenth canto of Bhagavatam, say, Maharaja Ugrasen had such a huge number of bodyguards. And the scholars ask us, you know, where were they living? Where were their toilets? Where were their homes? Where was the space? So, now, Shila Prabhupada gives a very surprising reply and answers. He says, among all the 18,000 verses of the Bhagavatam, was that the only thing that you found to preach to them? So, what Shila Prabhupada meant is that it is only gradually when people see the magical effect, the extraordinary effect of the purifying potency of Krishna consciousness, when they see their own minds and senses becoming controlled and mastered, when they see themselves transforming into becoming better persons, that they develop faith in the power of Krishna and this power itself is actually inconceivable.
How bad habits and negative traits which we struggle to give away and are not able to give away, suddenly go away rapidly by the practice of Krishna consciousness. So, when we see this extraordinary power of Krishna’s holy name and Krishna’s remembrance, then gradually this helps us develop our faith in Krishna and then we can accept Krishna’s inconceivable potency that Krishna can actually expand time and space. Krishna can expand space so that all the large number of people can be accommodated in Dwaraka.
But this faith in Krishna’s inconceivable potency cannot be expected on the first day of meeting. Similarly, when we are talking about Krishna’s holy name to new people, you know, we don’t have to talk about how one holy name of Krishna has enough capacity to destroy more sins than what we can commit. In fact, this sort of statements only make people feel that it is an exaggeration.
But we can start by telling them how, by connecting with the power of God, through the holy name, we get the power to discipline and master our minds, we get the capacity to become free from our lower nature and our negative traits, and there is something which they can experience. And when they experience it, their faith increases and then gradually they can understand how the holy name can purify people from even grievous sins. So essentially the injunction’s purpose in saying that don’t instruct faithless person in the glories of the holy name is that don’t tell people what they can’t believe.
Because they have to learn step by step. It’s like weight lifting. Only when we lift small weights initially can we lift up bigger weights eventually.
But in the first day, if a person goes for weight lifting and he is given a 50 kg weight to lift, he doesn’t even have the muscles to lift a 5 kg, he will just break himself and he will give up weight lifting entirely. So the injunction is not that Krishna wants to hide his holy name and hide his message and not tell it to anyone. So Krishna, in a similar echo he says, in the echo of the similar message, in the Bhagavad Gita he says don’t instruct this message of mine to the envious people.
So, when Krishna says idam, actually this means the most confidential knowledge of Krishna’s love. So when people don’t even believe in God’s existence, at that time they start talking about God’s love and how God has so many relationships, he has brothers and he has his mother and he has his lovers. People will just find it too mad, too fanciful or they may even become envious of Krishna thinking that he is enjoying in so many ways.
He is just having mental enjoyment the way that I am not able to have. So Krishna doesn’t want people to become more envious by hearing his glories, when they are not ready to hear his glories. So Krishna’s purpose in telling us to moderate the way we preach to people is so that our preaching, our sharing of his message doesn’t increase their envy but increases their faith.
And as Krishna conscious devotees, Krishna Prabhupada started not by talking about Rasleela, but he started by talking about how we are not the body but the soul and how mental enjoyment actually leads to suffering and seeking spiritual advancement leads to real happiness. These are the basic teachings and in general ISKCON follows Krishna Prabhupada’s footsteps and presents those basic teachings and helps people develop faith and gradually they can come to more advanced teachings. Thank you.