When people around us force us to things that aren’t according to devotional standards how should we respond?

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Question from Raju Prabhu Sometimes, the people around us force us to do certain things which are not acceptable according to devotional standards. What should we do at such times? Answer It will depend on who those people are and what those actions are.
So, generally speaking we don’t have to ourselves be confrontationalist constantly while dealing with people whose values are different from ours. But we want to protect our values. So, for example if we are in a mess where other people are eating meat and they ask us to eat meat we may refuse at that time.
But if somebody is if we are a family and somebody is just having some discussion which may not be devotional but which is not necessarily anti-devotional also about some family issues, it’s not wrong to participate in the discussion. And we should do our responsibility even if we are unable to, at our level of realization, see the collection of that activity with Krishna and with Krishna Bhakti. So, now the first thing is let’s when we are in a group where it’s difficult to avoid so what do we do? In general if the activity is not very bad and if there is no way to go out of it then one other principle also is that we don’t want to disrupt the minds of people.
That of course does not mean that we disrupt our own mind, but it simply means that we not use our principles as a source for justifying, for self-appointing ourselves as rabble-rousers. Rabble-rouser refers to those who just want to create conflicts for the sake of having some excitement. So, if