Dhira Madhava Das shared Pooja Sharma's post.
ei rupe brahmanda bhramite kona bhagyavan jiva
guru-kripa-krpaya paya bhakti-lata-bija
(CC Madhya 19.151)
By serving both the spiritual master and Krsna he gets the seed of devotional service (bhakti-lata-bija), and if he sows the seed within his heart and waters it by hearing and chanting, it grows into a luxuriant bhakti-lata, or bhakti creeper.
SB 4.22.23,
While the bhakti creeper is growing, the devotee must protect it by fencing it all around. The neophyte devotee must be protected by being surrounded by pure devotees. In this way he will not give the maddened elephant a chance to uproot his bhakti creeper.
CC Madhya 19.157,
One can get the seed of the plant or creeper of bhakti, how? Guru-kripa-krpa. By the mercy of guru and by the mercy of Krsna, not that krsna-krpa. First guru-krpa, then kripa-krpa.
Lecture on SB 1.15.27 -- New York, March 6, 1975
The bhakti-lata, the creeper of bhakti, is growing, but it will go on growing, growing, growing, until the bhakti-lata, I mean to say, catches the lotus feet of Krsna.
Lecture on SB 2.4.1 -- Los Angeles, June 24, 1972
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