Love for God is eternally dormant in all beings and naturally awakens through hearing about Krishna.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6 Engagement — September 17, 1971, Mombasa 710917SB-MOMBASA [57:47 Minutes] SB-01.02.06_710917SB-MOMBASA Prabhupāda: ...puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje ahaituky apratihatā yayātmā suprasīdati [SB 1.2.6] Yayātmā suprasīdati, or samprasīdati. Samprasīdati means samyak, fully satisfied, prasīdati. Everyone is searching after peace and tranquillity of the mind. Mind's nature… [aside:] Why you are standing? Mind…, mind's nature is very flickering.
This accepting something and rejecting something—that is mind: saṅkalpa, vikalpa, the exact word in Sanskrit. I decide to do something, but next moment I reject it. Therefore mind is not in peace, and we are trying to be satisfied in so many ways. At last, in human form of life, we take to religious principles of life. In the animal society there is no question of religiosity, but in the human form of life, especially civilized human society… Every society has got some form of religious principles.
It doesn't matter whether it is Hinduism, Muhammadanism, Sikhism or Jewism, Christianism—there is some form of religious principles. Everything is attempted for satisfying the yoga principles also. Yoga indriya-saṁyamaḥ—by controlling the mind. Mind is also indriya, the principal sense. We have got senses, and mind is the center of all senses, indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur [Bg. 3.42]. This body means combination of senses, but above the senses there is the mind.
If the mind is disturbed, the senses cannot act. If the mind is in disorder, then the man is called mad, because he cannot use his senses properly. He cannot think properly, he cannot feel properly, neither he can act properly. So Sūta Gosvāmī, who was speaking Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya… Those who are Indians, they are well acquainted with the Naimiṣāraṇya land; it is in the Hardoi district, near Lucknow. The station, railway station, is named Nimsar, and the place is very nice for spiritual cultivation. So that place was specially fixed up for executing religious ritualistic performances, and some thousands of years ago—at least five thousand years ago—there was a great meeting of the saintly persons in which Sūta Gosvāmī was presiding, and he is teaching to the great sages that if you want to satisfy your mind, if you want to become peaceful, then you should take to the transcendental system of religion. There are different kinds of religions, but the prime religion is described here: yato bhaktir adhokṣaje.
So far we are concerned—we are propagating Kṛṣṇa consciousness—sometimes we are put many questions about different types of religious systems. We take the advantage of this verse, that sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje. We do not mind what kind of religion you are following—you may be a Christian, you may be a Jewish or you may be Hindu or Mussulman or any other followers of religion—but the test is whether you are advancing in the matter of loving God. Yato bhaktir adhokṣaje. Bhakti means bhaja-dhātā-sevayā[?].
When a man is engaged in service, that is called bhakti. That is man's nature—not only man's nature; that is the nature, characteristic, of all living entities: to serve. The other day I was seeing one picture—yes, I think Mr. Pandiya's house—that a lioness is also serving the cubs. That service spirit, that is the characteristic of living entities: to render service to others, either out of love or out of sense of superiority.
To render service. Any one of us who are sitting in this meeting, if we ask, "What is your prime business?" you must admit that your prime business is to serve. So this service is the characteristic of the living entity. Nobody can say that "I am not servant." He must be servant, everyone. And Lord Caitanya says that "The prime duty of living entity is to understand that he is eternal servant of God," jīvera svarūpa haya nitya kṛṣṇera dāsa [Cc. Madhya 20.108]. That is our real, constitutional position. We are eternal servant of God; therefore we are engaged in different types of services. Somebody is engaged in the service of his personal self, somebody is engaged in the service of the family, somebody is engaged in the service of the society, community, nation or international, humanity. Just like in our country, Mahatma Gandhi was engaged in the service of his county.