Spiritual education diffuses the knowledge of Kṛiṣhṇa, God, the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He really is as well as His sublime teaching, stating that we must all live according to the Lord’s teaching. It empowers the postulant of spiritual elevation to achieve this, and to attain Krishna consciousness. It reveals the existential and absolute truth.
It makes it possible to know the good qualities, the right attitude, the ideal behavior, those of purity that man must acquire and manifest constantly, in order to avoid following the paths that lead to ignorance of the truth, to perdition, and to multiply suffering.
She teaches what absolutely must be done, and explains what not to do.
Spiritual education is the basis of the science of God, the teaching of the Lord, it allows to know that the spiritual soul is different and distinct from the material body in which it resides, and that the soul, which each of us is really and not the body to which we wrongly identify, is the central point of life.
It is transmitted by a genuine spiritual master, a true intimate servant of God, who knows Krishna and has seen the truth, but also by the devout parents of the Lord, who want to guide their children on the right path, which consists in living according to God’s teaching, for their sake.
Unfortunately, spiritual education is totally absent from current civilization. No one knows his true interest, which is that of the spiritual soul and not of the material body, nor his true spiritual identity. True education is spiritual and not material.
To work intensely under the influence of a bodily conception of existence, without spiritual education, is to live as an animal. People spend so much energy simply on bodily amenities, without being educated as to the interest of the spiritual soul. They thus live in a dangerous civilization, for the spiritual soul must indeed reincarnate, thus passing from one body to another.
Without spiritual education, human beings are kept in ignorance and do not know what will happen to them after the death of their body. They work blindly, and blind leaders lead them. The man deprived of reason does not know that he remains totally under the slavery of the material nature and that the latter will impose upon him after death a particular kind of fleshly envelope, which he will have to accept. He does not know that although he may be in this actual human body, someone very important for example, he risks being reborn in an animal or tree body for having acted in ignorance of God under the influence of the modes of influence of the material nature that are: virtue, passion and ignorance.