Making Advancement
One must seek the association of persons who are Krishna Conscious and who engage in devotional service. Without such association one cannot make advancement.
Beginning of Real Devotion and Devotional Service
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.
Association of A Pure Devotee
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
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.