Devotees often ask: “How can my spiritual advancement be measured.” There are, in fact, many correct answers to this question, but this is one that I think stands out: “Devotion, direct experience of the Supreme Lord, and detachment from other things-these three occur simultaneously for one who has taken shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in the same way that pleasure, nourishment and relief from hunger come simultaneously and increasingly, with each bite, for a person engaged in eating.” (Maharaja Nimi speaks, Srimad Bhagavatam 11.2.42)