In the association of pure devotees, discussion of the pastimes and activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is very pleasing and satisfying to the ear and the heart. By cultivating such knowledge one gradually becomes advanced on the path of liberation and thereafter he is freed and his attraction becomes fixed. Then real devotion and devotional service begin.
One cannot compare the association of a pure devotee to anything material. Such association is always desirable, it is worshipable, it is praiseworthy.
The topmost benediction for those who are living in this material world and are subjected to the repetition of birth and death (transmigration) is association with pure devotees.
A pure devotee considers a moment's association with another pure devotee to be far superior than residing in a heavenly planet or merging in the Brahman effulgence.