I am neither a Shastravadin nor a Buddhivadin. I am a Premavadin. So, I have no conflict with either the scholar who adheres to texts or the devotee of Reason. Both have their good points as well as their limitations. If you acquire Prema, then you can dispense with the Shastras, for the purpose of all the Shastras is just that; to create the feeling of Sarva jana samana prema, equal love for all; and to negate egoism, which stands in the way. Reason too, if it comes in the way of this love, is to be discarded as ‘perverted.’ All the time and energy spent in perusing the Shastras are a sheer waste, if study and reflection do not help you to recognize that the mind is worse than a drunken monkey. Pilgrimages too are for elevating the heart, sublimating the impulses and leading the lower self to higher levels of thought and action. Reason serves the same purpose, or at least, it ought to. Reason seeks to know the unity of the universe, the origin and goal of it all, the laws that govern the Anu and brhath, the microcosm and the macrocosm; and it peeps behind the ever-receding curtain to get a glimpse of the Sutradhara, who pulls the strings. (SSS Vol.1, p. 119)