Even without the knowledge of the Sastras, if you have the Jnana gained through experience and practice, you can attain the goal through that means, and lead others also along the path you have become familiar with. The dull find no need for Sastras; so too, the holy person who is immersed, always and under all conditions, in the contemplation of Brahmam and in the sweetness of that Bliss, has no need for Sastras. Of course, strict adherence to Truth and practice of Dharma may entail great hardship but, having in view the Bliss that awaits you in the end, you have to put up with all that and bear them gladly. Only the intelligent can save themselves by knowing the Truth, the rest will remain bound.

The Yugas are classified on the basis of the dominant mental role. In the Krithayuga, it is said Dharma walked about on four legs, happy and safe. In the Threthayuga, Dharma had only three legs, while in the Dwaparayuga, it had to totter about on just two! In the present Kaliyuga, Dharma has only one leg, according to this tradition. The four legs are Sathya, Daya, Thapas and Dana. If one has all these four, then he can be said to be in the Krithayuga, whatever may be the Yuga in the calendar. If Sathya is not steady in a person but, if he has the other three qualities, he is in the Threthayuga. If Sathya and Daya are both absent, but if Thapas and Dana persist, individuals who are in this predicament can be said to be in the Dwaparayuga. If however only Dana remains out of the four, it is as if Dharma is standing on one leg and the person who is sticking to Dana, in spite of everything else having disappeared, is in the Kaliyuga, even if he exists in the chronological age, called Kritha. The Yugas change only with the change in Dharma, not with the mere passage of time. The wicked Hiranyakasipu and the purehearted Prahlada both lived in the selfsame chronological Yuga; the same Yuga saw Dharmaja, the personification of Righteousness and Santhi, as well as the arch-cheat, Duryodhana. So, Dharma is what makes the Yuga for each; one can always be in the Kritha Yuga, if only one has all the four qualities of Dharma. It is the conduct of man that makes or mars history and changes the Golden Age to the Iron Age.