From the lecture..
2016-10-21_SB-10-86-55-59_-_Feeling_Need_to_Cultivate_Relationship_with_Devotees_-_Nanda_Dulal_Prabhu_ISKCON_Chowpatty

It's said that the gopis take great pleasure in uniting Radha and Krsna. They push Radharani towards Krsna. Why? Because when Radharani is there then Krsna ( in one sense He is the complete full) but He becomes more fuller when He is with Radharani.

The complete whole is incomplete without Radharani. And then when more gopis come, when more devotees come then He becomes more fuller and fuller. The fullest becomes more fuller and fuller.

So, that is the meaning of, We are dependent on devotees to know Krsna. Not just in the sense of hearing from devotees. The devotees have so much to speak about Krsna. Not in that sense but when Krsna is together with His devotees then that is the time when He has Lilas, that is the time when He has activities and seeing those activities, seeing those reciprocation of love, we will understand Krsna better and we will understand devotees better and in this way we can upgrade ourselves more and more. In this sense we are dependent on the association of devotees.