People say that inactivity, silence, that is perfection. But no. In bhakti cultivation, there is no such thing silence. Always active. The same example can be given that Arjuna… Arjuna became devotee not by silence, but by being active. Activity, spontaneous activity: “I have to do this. My Lord will be pleased. So I have to do this.”

Activity. But if I have no idea what is Lord, what does He want, how He’s pleased, if we do not know all these things, naturally there will be no activity. But one who knows what is this Lord, what does He want, what is my relationship with Him, then there is activity. So actually, that bhakti,
bhakti is not silence. Bhakti is activity.

Just like personally, up to seventy years, I was practically doing nothing. But at the age of seventy years, by the grace of God, Krsna, there was inspiration; I went to Western country – not to sit down there silently. So bhakti, the path of bhakti, is not inactivity. Actual activity begins when one is situated on devotional service.

Srila Prabhupada; Lecture, 28 Oct 1972