The sense of devotion is there within the heart of every being. It's intrinsic, and by stimulation, it becomes awakened. We might say that a seed is stimulated. It lies dormant in a little package, perhaps. And then when you take it out, bok choy, little seed, and you say, come here, little fellow, and you put him in his own cup, you get some nice rich earth that doesn't have any contamination and make it moist, and then it's a little warm, sun's coming down, and the little seed in there goes like, I think I'll wake up.

Now, there's something to wake up for, and it sprouts and pops up. And so the sense that we have of love for Kṛṣṇa, they're dormant. What's the word I just asked you for? stimulate means?

Research Department: Stimulate is a verb, and it means rouse to action.

Vaiśeṣika Dāsa: And where does it come from?

Research Department: It comes from the Latin stimulatus, which is a past participle of stimuli.

Vaiśeṣika Dāsa: And what does it mean? The root? Stim, just look at the etymological dictionary and see if you can find about the root. And then, yeah, so the seed, yes, seed wakes up. Similarly in bhakti, the word uddīpana means to stimulate. Uddīpana means that there is, I can use a modern word that people use a lot, 'triggers' that really triggered me. That's very popular now think. It's a trigger, just seeing you triggers. So in bhakti, we surround ourselves by triggers. Everything's a trigger. Why do we come and see Tulsi? It's like, Oh, that's pretty nice. But, you know, she's actually from the spiritual world, so we start to trigger that. And then you have the spiritual master, and then you have the deities, and you have the scents, and the scents meaning, S, C, E, N, T, S, and all these very stimuli. Bhakti is a stimuli-rich or stimulus-rich environment. And then that helps, you know, by proximity, to awaken our sense of bhakti that's there sleeping within the heart.

(excerpt from the talk 1:13:18)

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