1. What to do if people insist on touching your feet

    If they want to insist on touching your feet and there is no other way to avoid it, you can simply remember your predecessor Acaryas and Spiritual Masters and accept them and return namaskara with folded hands. That is the Vaisnava etiquette.

    From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Acyutananda — Los Angeles 11 April, 1970