Fan the smallest spark of faith through devotee association, and it blazes into love of God.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 10.8 [Partial Recording] — March 31, 1967, San Francisco 670331BG-SAN FRANCISCO [11:52 Minutes] Prabhupāda: [sings:] Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs. 5.30]. [devotees repeat three times] [I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is adept in playing on His flute, with blooming eyes like lotus petals with head decked with peacock's feather, with the figure of beauty tinged with the hue of blue clouds, and His unique loveliness charming millions of Cupids.] So we have caught up the original person, ādi-puruṣa. We have found out the root of everything. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate iti matvā bhajante māṁ budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ [Bg. 10.8] [I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who know this perfectly engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.] Kṛṣṇa says that "I am the origin of everything." Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ. Sarvasya. Sarvasya means including all big demigods like Brahmā, Lord Śiva, even Nārāyaṇa and Viṣṇu.
Everything. Everybody, everything is..., the original person is Kṛṣṇa. Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate iti matvā budhāḥ. Budha means very learned man. One who is completely wise, no, I mean to say, illusion, such a person is budha.
From budh. The word root is budh-dhātu. From budh-dhātu the name Lord Buddha has come, Buddha, from that root. So anyone who is well versed, complete in wisdom, he is called budha. And bhāva-samanvitāḥ.
Budha, one must be very well versed, at the same time completely in spiritual emotion, bhāva. This bhāva is the very high platform for coming to the perfection of life. Bhāva. That is also stated in Vedic literature, what is that bhāva.
Each and every word, if you try to understand scrutinizingly, they are very sublime. So one has to come to the stage of bhāva, then he can attain... Bhāva means transcendental emotion. Then he can understand what is love of God.
Budhā bhāva. Iti matvā bhajante mām. Bhajante means one engages himself in the transcendental loving service of the Lord in complete emotion. That is wanted. How that emotion is attained, that is also described by Rūpa Gosvāmī, how one can attain that stage one after another.
The first stage is śraddhā. Śraddhā means faith. Faith. Ādau śraddhā. If one has got this faith, then he can develop that faith to the highest perfectional stage of transcendental emotion, bhāva, and then love of God. So there is nothing to be depressed. All boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen who are in this meeting, they have got this faith, śraddhā.