One who is engaged in chanting the holy name, for him this is the special facility. What is that? It is guaranteed that he’ll never go to the hellish condition of life. That is guaranteed. He’s not degrading to the lowest stage of life, in animal life, or a life of ignorance, lower-born of human life, but he will gradually make progress. And it is also guaranteed that the Yamaduta, the servants of Yamaraja, will never come to see him. Or he will never see them. They will be out of sight.  And, yajnati ananyalo mattah: although this material existence is always inauspicious, the person who is engaged in chanting the holy name, he is always living in the Visnu-loka. He’s not living in this material world.

From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on SB 6.2.48 — Prayag, Jan 31, 1971