devotional progress

If someone gets stuck at the basic non-negotiable level of practicing bhakti, how can they grow?

Purification-The inner change that brings outer change 5 Karma logically explained Kolkata

5.2 Make me prayerfully ready and practically steady 

If we are inspired by high spiritual standards but fail to live up to them, what should we do?

Does our past impede our bhakti – how can we overcome those impediments?