Truly, one who risks insulting a great soul can be certain to fall from his spiritual position. No one can protect one who blasphemes a great soul, least of all God. Even if he were as powerful as Lord Shiva, anyone who commits an offense inevitably heads for ruin. And if someone disregards this judgment and dares to blaspheme a wise scholar, a true spiritual master and servant of Krishna, a devotee of the Lord, or a spiritual guide, he will suffer for it life after life.

To protect ourselves from all this, let us surrender to Krishna, obey Him, do His divine will, renew the bond that unites us with Him, link our desires and interests to His, and serve Him with love and devotion. Then the Lord will take us under His protection.

Let us engrave this truth in golden letters in our memory.

What we do to others, good or bad, will be done to us at the end of our present life, and certainly in the next.

So let us not harm anyone, human, animal, or plant.

Let us not make the mistake of rejecting God, or worse, denying His existence, for otherwise we will have to suffer the wrath of the Lord's illusory energy.

All those who are influenced by maya, the illusory energy of the Lord, akin to Satan, remain in illusion. This energy exerts its influence in two ways: through “projection” or through “veiling.”

Through “projection,” it plunges living beings, human beings, and animals, into the darkness of ignorance of the facts relating to God and existential truth, and through “veiling,” it obscures the vision of human beings with scant knowledge of the existence of Krishna, the Supreme Personality.

Maya, the illusory energy, also exerts its influence on people of lesser intelligence, leading them to believe that they are identical with God.

In truth, each of us is a spiritual soul distinct from Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality, a tiny fragment of His Divine Personality. Therefore, we must understand that, being a part of the Whole, the fragment can never claim to become the Supreme.

Rather, this should be seen as an indication that the soul conditioned by matter and the energy of illusion falls victim to the final trap of the illusory energy, which makes it believe that it is God. To make the conditioned being that each of us is in this material world pretend to be one with the consciousness of the Lord is the final stratagem used by the illusory energy to bring it down.

Those who die under the influence of ignorance of the facts relating to God, their true spiritual identity, spiritual knowledge, and existential truth are reborn in the animal world. And those who are under the influence of ignorance fall onto the infernal planets that make up Hell.