How can devotees avoid getting deviated to the heavenly planets?

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Hare Krishna. how can devotees avoid going to the heavenly It’s a very rare birth to be born in a devotees family and that’s where the devotees family actually helps in, the birth in devotees family helps a person to move on in devotional service.
So, now the question that comes up here is that how can we know our present state? So, in general we can look for two three things. First is, it’s not that we have to be at our present stage of devotion, we may not be pure devotees and we may not be free from material desires. But there’s a difference between not being free from material desires and not wanting to be free from material desires.
That means there is, we may have material desires which we want to fulfil, and we actively work to fulfil those material desires. We may have material desires which are largely functional desires. Just by living in this world where we need certain material things are needed and the desires for those are not necessarily material desires, they are just functional needs.
They are not going to interfere much in our devotional service and our devotional progress and there are residual desires which we don’t want and whenever they come, we resist them. So, over a period of time, the desire for Krishna will become our strongest desire. And once it becomes our strongest desire, then we will be able to move onwards steadily and either we will, by Krishna’s grace, attain Him or attain birth in a family where we will be able to continue on even if we are, even if we are not yet completed, we will be born in a devotee family where we can continue on in our devotional practice.
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