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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 17]
nor should one think that the spiritual master is an ordinary human being.” One should strictly follow this śāstric injunction and worship the Deity, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, without offenses. The spiritual master is the direct representative of the Lord, and no one should consider him an ordinary human being. By avoiding offenses against the Deity and the spiritual master, one can advance in spiritual life, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
In this regard, the following quotation appears in the  Laghubhāgavatāmṛta :
pādme tu parama-vyomnaḥ pūrvādye dik-catuṣṭaye vāsudevādayo vyūhaś catvāraḥ kathitāḥ kramāt
tathā pāda-vibhūtau ca nivasanti kramādi me jalāvṛti-stha-vaikuṇṭha- sthita vedavatī-pure
satyordhve vaiṣṇave loke nityākhye dvārakā-pure śuddhodād uttare śveta- dvīpe cairāvatī-pure
kṣīrāmbudhi-sthitānte kroḍa-paryaṅka-dhāmani sātvatīye kvacit tantre nava vyūhāḥ prakīrtitāḥ catvāro vāsudevādyā nārāyaṇa-nṛsiṁhakau
hayagrīvo mahā-kroḍo brahmā ceti navoditāḥ tatra brahmā tu vijñeyaḥ pūrvokta-vidhayā hariḥ