Through the grace of the spiritual master, one can receive the mercy of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Without Krishna's mercy, no one can make the slightest progress. Therefore, we must always remember our spiritual master, praise him, and pay him homage. He must be honored just as much as the Supreme Lord, for he is the Supreme Lord's most intimate servant. If one devotes oneself to spiritual life under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, and thus dedicates oneself to the loving and devoted service to the Lord, one becomes worthy of seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead face to face. We must follow the spiritual master's instructions, for only in this way does one become worthy of seeing Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, says: Seek to know the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire of him submissively and while serving him. The realized soul can reveal knowledge to you, for he has seen the truth.

How does the illusory energy of the Lord, also called the energy of illusion or maya, work, and why?

Everything is revealed to those who awaken to true spiritual and absolute knowledge.

Let us not make the mistake of rejecting God, denying His existence, challenging His authority, envying Him, or considering ourselves equal or identical to Him, for otherwise we will have to suffer the influence and wrath of the illusory energy of the Lord.

Truly, rejecting God or denying His existence leads to forgetting His Divine Person, which will immediately provoke the worst punishment possible, for it means being plunged into ignorance of the facts relating to God and existential truth, into darkness, blindness, anguish, fear, despair, perdition, suffering, and death, with no hope of seeing God.

The Lord says to this effect: I plunge the envious and the evildoers, the lowest of mankind, into the ocean of material existence in various demonic forms of life. These people, reborn life after life within the demonic species, can never approach Me. Little by little, they sink into the most abominable condition.

Those who commit the error of blaspheming the Lord, whether in thought, word, or deed, will be reborn into a family of unbelievers, demonic unbelievers, atheists, where they are likely to forget the service of the Lord. Moreover, whoever does this will go to hell, along with their ancestors.

The wicked, the evildoers, the unbelievers blaspheme the Lord because He appears in the guise of an ordinary man; they know nothing of His infinite greatness.