Letter to:        Nandarani and Dayananda : 68-03-29      San Francisco

Regarding your manner of behavior with your parents who are not in Krishna
Consciousness; I may inform you that you should treat four different classes of
men in four different ways. A devotee shoud love God and God's devotees.
A devotee should make friendship with devotees. A devotee should try to 
enlighten innocent persons, and a devotee should reject opposite elements.
As father and Mother they should be offered proper respect according to social
custom, but you cannot accept their non-Godly instructions. Best thing is,
to avoid misunderstanding, to remain silent without any affirmation or negation
of their instructions. We should try to keep our friendship with everyone in the
world, but we cannot sacrifice the principles of Krishna Consciousness on being
employed by some relative of this world. Don't let them know that you do not
approve your parents instructions, but at the same time you should be very 
careful in dealing with them. If you object to their instruction and let them
know it, then they will feel sorry, sad.