Question: He Wants to Visit Temple, But Not Follow Our Principles
Hare Krishna Gurudeva,
Please accept my obeisances.
Gurudeva, yesterday on the occasion of Nrsimha Caturdasi I invited one of my office colleagues to the temple. After attending abhishek and arati he said to my other friend that he doesn't want to follow the rules and four regulative principles of ISKCON. However, he said that he does want to come to temple whenever I visit it. Do you want me to invite him to the temple or not?
Waiting for your reply,
Hari bol,
Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:
If He Keeps Coming, He Will Embrace Our Principles
Yes, let him come to the temple as often as possible. In this way he will get a taste for Krishna consciousness and eventually automatically become enthusiastic to follow the regulated principles of bhakti yoga.
In this connection Rupa Goswami states:
yena tena prakāreṇa manaḥ kṛṣṇa niveśayet
sarve vidhi-niśedhā syur etayor eva kiṅkarāḥ
"Somehow or other become Krishna conscious; the rules and regulations will automatically come later on."
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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