Bhakti creeper

Expressions researched:
"bhakti creeper" |"creeper of bhakti" |"creeper of devotion" |"devotional creeper

Srimad-Bhagavatam

SB Preface and Introduction

The Lord advised him to protect the bhakti creeper most carefully against the mad elephant offense against the pure devotees.

SB Introduction: The Lord taught the Gosvāmī about devotional service, comparing it to a creeper, and advised him to protect the bhakti creeper most carefully against the mad elephant offense against the pure devotees. In addition, the creeper has to be protected from the desires of sense enjoyment, monistic liberation and perfection of the haṭha-yoga system. They are all detrimental on the path of devotional service. Similarly, violence against living beings, and desire for worldly gain, worldly reception and worldly fame are all detrimental to the progress of bhakti, or Bhāgavata-dharma.

SB Canto 2

SB 2.2.30, Purport: 3) It so happens that by the watering process some weeds are also grown, and unless such weeds are uprooted, the nurturing of the main creeper, or the creeper of bhakti-yoga, may be hampered.