Bhakti is not mechanical. We have to execute the regulative principles of bhakti with a desire to achieve bhakti. It is this desire, when coupled together with our regulative activities in the association of those who have bhakti, that awakens bhakti. Bhakti comes from bhakti and not from any mechanical activity. Mechanical activity has some beginning point in time, however bhakti has no beginning.
June 10, 2002, Sochi