Although we are warned not to speak to the rascals, but still, we are flattering, "My dear sir, please hear, please hear, please hear. Please give up this habit. Please do it." So to turn one man to Kṛṣṇa consciousness we have to shed hundred tons of blood. So therefore it is warned. We are not easy-going that not to preach. We have taken the risk to preach. And it has, it is becoming successful. People will take it.
So although Kṛṣṇa warns, "Don't speak to these classes of men," we take the risk. Because our philosophy is that—not my philosophy; that is Vaiṣṇava philosophy—that others may go, they may be delivered. Prahlāda Mahārāja said that, "My dear Lord, for my personal self, I do not bother. I have no problem. I am simply thinking of these fools."
Māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān (SB 7.9.43): "Simply for māyā-sukha, temporary happiness, they are working so hard, like dogs and hogs. I am simply concerned for them. For me, I have no concern. I can chant Your holy name anywhere." So this warning of Kṛṣṇa is all right, but a pure devotee, in spite of warning of Kṛṣṇa, they approach the atapaskāya, abhaktāya, and flatter them, "Please take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness." That we should do. Kṛṣṇa will be pleased. That is explained in the next verse:
- ya idaṁ paramaṁ guhyaṁ
- mad-bhakteṣv abhidhāsyati
- bhaktiṁ mayi parāṁ kṛtvā
- mām evaiṣyaty asaṁśayaḥ
- (BG 18.68)
And next śloka He says: na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu kaścin me priya-kṛttamaḥ (BG 18.69): "Anyone who tries to preach this Bhagavad-gītā philosophy, nobody's dearer than him to Me." So we, our business is to become little recognized by Kṛṣṇa. So we shall go on preaching like this at all risk.