You should know that each and every planet is full of different types of living entities, and in the higher planetary system, the standard of living may be very… Not maybe. It is mentioned, thousands and thousands of times better than this planet. They… This is called Bhurloka, then Bhuvarloka, then Svargaloka, Janaloka, Maharloka, Tapoloka, Satyaloka, Brahmaloka—these are different higher planetary system—and each loka, the standard of happiness is thousand times better than the earth. This is the position. And Krsna says, a-brahma-bhuvanal lokah. And similarly down, there are different lokas—Tala, Atala, Talatala, Vitala, Sutala, like that. This is the constitution. But here Rsabhadeva says that anywhere you go, the threefold miseries of material existence, that will continue. You cannot get free. Even Brahmaloka, the Brahma, he is subjected to die. He is also undergo the principles of death, and what to speak of others. Nobody will exist here. A-brahma-bhuvanal lokah punar avartino ’rjuna [Bg. 8.16].
So we should know that, that we are trying to improve our material condition—it doesn’t matter you are now a poor man, and by doing something you get, I mean to say, great amount of wealth. That does not mean that you are free from dangerous condition of life. That is not. Sarvatra. Either in this planet, or in other planet, or this condition, that condition, the threefold miseries, adhyatmika, adhidaivika, and adhibhautika, and these miseries, and janma- mrtyu-jara-vyadhi… Krsna says, janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha- dosanudarsanam. Krsna never says that “Within this universe, if you go to the heavenly planet, then you can avoid janma-mrtyu-jara- vyadhi.” Never says. Nobody says. Krsna says, “Even you go to the heavenly planet,” abrahma-bhuvanal lokah, “the janma-mrtyu-jara- vyadhi, they are everywhere; you cannot avoid.” Yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama [Bg. 15.6]. “But if you come to Me,” param dhama, “then you can avoid.”
Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.10-13
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Vrndavana, November 1, 1976
Does the level of consciousness advances your spiritual growth? The answer is obvious but how does one attains knowledge, wisdom, realization, god realization?
ashen says: Does the level of consciousness advances your spiritual growth?
The answer is obvious. If he is making progress, he must feel. If he is not making progress, then he will not feel.
Further, ashen says ; but how does one attains knowledge, wisdom, realization, god realization?
So if he is actually serving Kṛṣṇa, then anartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt bhajana-kriyā. Bhajana-kriyā means anartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt. This is the result. If his anartha is not decreasing, or becoming zero, then he is not making bhajana. He is doing something else.
Hare Krishna. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.