How self-realization becomes extremely easy

Accepting the thoughts of exalted authorities through disciplic succession
is certainly much easier than the method of mental speculation, by which one
tries to invent some means to understand the Absolute Truth. The best
process is to accept the instructions of the previous acaryas and follow
them. Then God realization and self-realization become extremely easy. By
following this easy method, one is liberated from the contamination of the
material modes of nature, and thus one can certainly cross the ocean of
nescience, in which there are many miserable conditions. By following in the
footsteps of the great acaryas, one associates with the hamsas or
paramahamsas, those who are completely freed from material contamination.
Indeed, by following the instructions of the acaryas one is always freed
from all material contamination, and thus one's life becomes successful, for
one reaches the goal of life.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 7.9.18