Devotional service is not affected by the modes of material nature, but this verse gives an analogy that we can relate to: that when we are properly prepared, then it can conflagrate. It comes as a small spark, but if a spark—Prabhupāda says—lands on bare ground, it won't start a fire. But if it lands on dry grass, then it'll burn.
Kṛṣṇa says in the Gītā (BG 7.28):
yeṣāṁ tv antagataṁ pāpaṁ
janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām
te dvandva-moha-nirmuktā
bhajante māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥ
When one is solidly situated in the mode of goodness, then when the spark of bhakti touches one, you'll notice that they immediately become activated in the process, and they can come to that level very quickly.
All forms of bhakti are permanent. We find that they are never lost, even in the cases where they land in somebody who is not yet prepared to take to bhakti. But when they do prepare themselves after they have received that, then progressively they'll be able to increase the level of bhakti that they practice. Therefore, it's mentioned by Kapila-deva: the levels of preparedness—the bhakti is there, but it gets expressed through the mode of ignorance, through the mode of passion, through the mode of goodness, and then when it's transcendental, it breaks free and has its own symptoms—avyavahitā.
It's mentioned in that verse that if one even one time hears, then one becomes attracted. So that's the case when somebody's purified. And it is an aspect of devotional service that Kṛṣṇa recommends himself: that we should cultivate the mode of goodness very deliberately in all that we do. He names in the Eleventh Canto ten ways in which, as samples, we should interact with the world in sattva. (19:04)
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