Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

> In my opinion, for a devotee, karma-yoga is the same thing as bhakti-yoga.

First of all I appreciated both your and Hare Krishna Prabhu's texts very
much and I want to thank you for the inspiration they offers.
We can act in so many ways while performing our duty, we can preach by
being nice and responsible persons and in the same time letting everyone
know that we are a Hare Krishna or simply by putting seed of thoughts out
into the open.

We dont go door to door in the town we live, but everyone know that we are
Hare Krishna's, sometimes we hear them chanting either in fun or just
curiously when they pass our house. Sometimes the school invites my husband
for giving classes to the young people. Sometimes I bring prasadam to the
school I attend, and sometimes I give my oppinions in discussions on
different matters seen from the vedic point, often to great surprise from
the other students since they would never see things from that point of view
themselves. Most of them have never met a Hare Krishna in civil and I
think it gives them an important impression of that we are also people,
individuals and not simply a fanatical sect, (which they often think) they
see my children being individuals too, travel a lot, doing music, having
interesting lifes and it all broadens their understanding of
Krishna-consciousness and they will speak with others.

What I learn in school I can use for writing articles in our
Krishna-magazine and radio-programs in Radio Krishna, and I can suply people
with cookbooks and advise them on being a vegetarian.

All this is long-time preaching, some kind of bhakti-yoga I would like to
think, it has taken quite some years for people to accept us as we are in
this small village, but resently the priest even friendly asked me if the
sankirtan-devotees visiting us were gone again.
They all keep a close look at us

My husband worked in a place a little while ago where he arranged lectures
in the meeting-house of the town. He arranged mostly for ecological farming
and building courses and in that way he also was able to make some good
contacts himself for future use if we ever get a piece of land.

I could continue but then it will be too long, the point is: simply
thinking and acting as a devotee, aware of peoples stand, not fanatical, is
preaching/bhakti-yoga? in itself, of course with qualitative differences, in
the long run it might prove quite substantial. We will see.

I would like to hear more about how others handle their situations as
devotees, while living in a material society.
Can you see any future in it?

Your servant Gunamani d.d.