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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 2]
the mad elephant who devastates a very good garden if it enters.
2) One must be very careful to guard himself against such offenses at the feet of pure devotees, as much as a creeper is protected by all round fencing.
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.
4) Actually these weeds are material enjoyment, merging the self in the Absolute without separate individuality, and many other desires in the field of religion, economic development, sense enjoyment and emancipation.
5) There are many other weeds, like disobedience of the tenets of the revered scriptures, unnecessary engagements, killing animals and hankering after material gain, prestige and adorations.
6) If sufficient care is not taken, then the watering process may only help to breed the weeds, stunting the healthy growth of the main creeper and resulting in no fructification of the ultimate requirement: love of God.
7) The devotee must therefore be very careful to uproot the different weeds in the very beginning. Only then the healthy growth of the main creeper will not be stunted.
8) And by so doing, the devotee is able to relish the fruit of love of God and thus live practically with Lord Kṛṣṇa, even in this life, and be able to see the Lord in every step.
The highest perfection of life is to enjoy life constantly in the association of the Lord, and one who can relish this does not aspire after any temporary enjoyment of the material world via other media.
TEXT 31
तेनात्मनात्मानमुपैति शान्त-
मानन्दमानन्दमयोऽवमाने ।
एतां गतिं मागवतीं गतो यः
स वै पुनर्नेह विषजतेऽङ्ग ॥३१॥
tenātmanātmānam upaiti śāntam ānandam ānandamayo'vasāne