When Krsna refers to the regulative principles of devotional service, He is talking about regulative principles of hearing and chanting, that one has to regulate his life in hearing and chanting the glories of the Lord in the association of devotees and one has to regulate his life also in worshiping the deities, that’s performing those activities which are connected to the Lord. So by strictly following those regulative principles and hearing regularly the pastimes of the Lord, then one becomes qualified for the spontaneous devotional service.
July 8, 2000, Riga