"The spiritual master is the mercy representative of the Lord Sri Krsna. Therefore, a person burning in the flames of material existence may receive the rains of mercy of the Lord through the transparent medium of the self-realized spiritual master. The spiritual master, by his words, can penetrate the heart of the suffering person and inject knowledge transcendental, which alone can extinguish the fire of material existence."
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(Srimad-Bhagavatam, 1.7.22, Purport)
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