Direct love for God, not scattered affection elsewhere, alone brings the soul's complete peace and perfect life.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6 — November 12, 1973, Delhi 731112SB-DELHI [46:47 Minutes] SB-01.02.06_731112SB-DELHI Prabhupāda: ...viṣvaksena-kathāsu yaḥ. [aside:] What is that sound? Notpādayed yadi ratiṁ śrama eva hi kevalam [SB 1.2.8]. Yesterday we discussed the verse, sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje ahaituky apratihatā yenātmā suprasīdati [SB 1.2.6] One gentleman was talking with me in my room how there can be perfect peace of mind.
That we discussed yesterday. Yena ātmā suprasīdati. Prasīdati means satisfied, fully satisfied. And suprasīdati.
Farther, specifically prasīdati. How? sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje ahaituky apratihatā yena-ātmā suprasīdati [SB 1.2.6] This is the process to develop our love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So we do not know. We have got the propensity to love. Love means somebody else.
Love cannot be done or love cannot be executed only one, personally. There must be another one. I love somebody; somebody loves me. So as soon as there is question of love, there must be lover, there must be beloved, and the transaction, then love.
Prema. Premā pum-artho mahān [Caitanya-manjusa]. So we have got this loving propensity, to love somebody, to love my family. First of all, love begins from family—father, mother, brother, sister.
Then you extend your love to your society, to your community, then to your nation. Or you can extend to the international. You can expand. But where is the end?
You can expand yourself, but unless you come to the point of loving the Supreme Person, you cannot have tranquillity or peace of mind. That is the secret. Just like watering the tree. You can water, pour water on the leaves, on the branches, on the twigs, on the flowers, each and every one very particularly.