Tantric practice is opposed to the Vedas

"In Kali-yuga more and more people are worshipping maya, the material energy. They give up the opportunity to chant the Supreme Lord Krsna's holy name, which is full of ecstatic spiritual mellows. They take up Tantric worship in the mode of ignorance and criticize the Vedas, They digress from the real path of religion, eat meat, drink alcohol and perform other sinful activities. These offenders can never receive the shelter of the holy name, nor can they enter the Supreme Lord's eternal abode of Vrndavana.

Maya-devi's mercy is essential

"Maya-devi forces atheists to perform sinful activities and in this way deprives them of the nectar of chanting the holy name. But if she becomes appeased by an atheist's rendering service to saintly Vaisnavas, she showers him with her grace and connects them to Lord Krsna's lotus feet. Maya is an eternal maidservant of Lord Krsna. She punishes the wayward jivas who drift away from serving Lord Krsna. Those who want to serve maya are simply cheaters who can never know happiness. Yet Maya-devi rewards those who chant the holy name; she helps them cross over the ocean of material nescience.

Concerning a wise person's feelings toward the body left behind by a loved one: First, unlike the materialist, he is not attracted to it as though it were the person. Second, he is not afraid or repelled by it because he sees it for what it is: a vehicle, or type of clothing, left behind by the one he loves.
Siddhaswarupanda

"Maya-devi is known and worshiped in the forms of Durga, Kali, etc. The superior spiritual energy is Lord Krsna's original and primeval energy; maya is its shadow. Her intention is to rectify the erring jivas who fall away and bring them back to Krsna consciousness; this is her prime duty to the Lord. Maya showers two kinds of graces—niskapata (honest and unrestrict- ed) and sakapata (capricious and illusory). By her niskapata mercy she gives the science of devotional service to Lord Krsna subtly mixed with material knowledge. In the case of sakapata mercy she offers temporary material favors and comforts, and thus controls the jiva. When she is dissatisfied with the jiva's behavior, she casts him into the brahmajyoti through sayujya liberation; thus the jiva is doomed.