How can we develop divine passion? Do we need an external motivation?

From Sudheer P

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Great Krishna question from Sunil Prabhu how can we develop a divine passion in our life as it is not easy should we have an external motivation for it answer bhakti sanjay ki bhakti divine passion essentially refers to bhakti and the passion to serve the divine to love the divine and bhakti comes only from bhakti adhar bhakti bhakti pre existing bhakti that means bhakti in our heart will manifest by contact with another devotee who has bhakti so by associating with devotees who have passion for serving Krishna glorifying Krishna loving Krishna we will also get similar passion and just as a gud or a candle has the capacity to be illuminated but it needs to come in contact with something that is illuminated similarly bhakti is dominant in our heart but it becomes awakened when we come in contact with somebody who has bhakti that’s why associating with devotees and not just anyone who seems to be a devotee but associating with devotees who have the spirit zeal the passion to do wonderful things in Krishna’s service that is very important so Shri Krishna has such a passion that even at the age of 70 many of his young disciples who were around 20-25 they felt Prabhupada had more youthful zeal than they had and those people who had heard nothing about Krishna a few years ago after just a few months or a few years of Shri Krishna wherever he travelled in any part of the world risked their lives for the sake of sharing Krishna’s message so the passion for Krishna the divine passion is definitely not easy to get so Rupa Goswami says that actually the only prize for Krishna is that this cannot come just by doing punya it can come only by associating with devotees and do we need any external motivation for this the motivation to please devotees is the best motivation and that is not exactly an external motivation in the sense of material motivation it will be external in the sense that the devotee is external to us and it is important to have that principle in mind yes, these devotees are serving Krishna I want to assist them I want to please them and we know that by serving the spiritual master and his representatives we get Krishna’s mercy through the mercy of these devotees so how can we develop that divine passion by associating with passionate devotees and especially by cultivating the desire to please those devotees and when we try to please those devotees then Krishna from within our heart sees that this devotee wants to serve my devotee Krishna actually wants to fulfill his devotees’ desires and if we become instruments in Krishna’s hands for fulfilling his devotees’ desires then Krishna uses us he uses the external empowerment purifies the extra parts and so that we can execute the devotees’ desires and become instruments for sharing spirituality and devotion with as many people as possible far far greater influence and reach than what we would have been able to do if we had been on our own so essentially we associate with devotees and they get the divine passion from them by striving sincerely to please them through our life and our service Thank you very much