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