Amichai: “I can not believe you can write something like this.
I know many many balei batim, young and old that have only one
thing they would want to be doing and that is learning.
they are at daf yomi at 5.oo am, then davening.
middle of the day after mincha there are shiurim in offices, maariv
at nite at home and shiurim at nite or daf yomi.
don’t ever say balei batim are not spiritual like kollel avreichim”
Amichai, if they would rather be learning than doing anything else, that means that they think that it is better to learn (if one can). Why do they think that it is better to learn if one can? And why do they try to spend as much time learning as they can? It is because they think that learning makes a person more Ruchnius and the more they learn, the more ruchniusdik they will be. So you have just proven the OP’s point that the more someone learns, the more ruchnius he will be.
Note: That does not necessarily mean he is a better person. Only Hashem can judge who is a better person than who. We do not know and have no way of knowing what people’s bechira levels are, and therefore we can never possibly discuss such a thing. Whenever we talk about someone being better, we can never mean who is a better person in terms of how much they have grown and how much reward Hashem will give them, since we never have any way of knowing such a thing.
We can only talk about who is “more ruchnius” in this world and who has it better in the here and now. The more a person learns (all else being equal), the more ruchniusdik he is. That is why everyone should learn as much as he can (“as much as he can” obviously involves many factors and is very subjective), and should be happy that he has as many opportunities to learn as he does, and be jealous (kinas sofrim) of those who learn more and realize how lucky they are to be able to learn more then him and strive and daven for more opportunities to learn.