Without spiritual education, people are kept ignorant of the facts relating to God as He really is, their true spiritual identity, true eternal spiritual knowledge, and existential and absolute truth, and do not know what will become of them after the death of their body. They work blindly, and blind leaders direct them.

Man deprived of reason does not know that he remains completely enslaved by material nature, and that the latter will impose upon him after death a certain type of body that he must accept, whether he likes it or not. He doesn't know that although he may be someone very important in his current material body, he risks being reborn in the body of an animal or even a tree for having acted in ignorance of God, under the influence of ignorance, one of the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature.

Spiritual education cultivates and develops God-consciousness and gives humanity the true transcendental light of spiritual existence. It teaches that each of us is truly an eternal spirit soul and not the material body with which we wrongly identify, and teaches us to surrender to Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to renew the bond of love that unites us with Him, to link our desires, interests, and plans to His, to love Him, to obey Him, to do His divine will with great joy, and to serve Him with love and devotion.

Such is the perfection of existence.