It’s not mechanical. At some point we have to execute the regulative principles of bhakti with a desire to achieve bhakti. It’s this desire to achieve bhakti - when coupled with our regulated activities in the association of those who have bhakti - that awakens bhakti. Bhakti comes from bhakti. It doesn’t come from any mechanical activity. Mechanical activities have some beginning point in time, but bhakti has no beginning.
June 10, 2002, Sochi