Śrī Gurudeva Uvāca Shorts #001 (19850428 New Orleans)
[...] "The bhakti-latā-bīja which one gets at first initiation, is to be watered very carefully by hearing and chanting, by following the regulative principles, by avoiding offending of the devotees, by avoiding weeds or unwanted creepers of different kinds of material desires. Otherwise, these unwanted creepers may end us, may force us to take birth instead of in the spiritual world, possibly in Svargaloka or worse. So, when one takes the bhakti-latā-bīja, and one puts all of one’s attention on that spiritual creeper, waters the spiritual creeper, defends it against other kinds of materialistic desires, so that the spiritual creeper can grow and grow, grows out of the material world, go far beyond the heavenly planets, go beyond the impersonal Brahman, the effulgence, beyond Vaikuṇṭhaloka and finally take shelter in Goloka Vṛndāvana at the lotus feet of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Rādhākānta. This is very important. " [...]
His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja
(A disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, the Founder-Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness) ISKCON Dīkṣā-guru and GBC.