Mere worldly scholarship cannot delve into the meaning of the Sruthis. The Grace of God has to be won by devotion and dedication, and that Grace alone, the compassionate Glance of the Eye of God alone, can instill into him the real meaning of the Sruthis. Only persons who are embodiments of Divine wisdom and Compassion can decide what exactly is helpful to the spiritual progress and well-being of man. Others only flounder. They will find it impossible to cope with the task. For, how can Gurus who fail to save themselves, help in saving others? The Gurus of today endeavour to cleanse society while their own houses are unclean. The number of such Gurus is increasing and, so, faults and failures are multiplying; their haltings justified and explained away, in various ways, and so the confusion grows worse. As a consequence, endless argumentation ensues and Reality is lost to view. These Gurus interpret the Sastras to suit their prejudices and partialities, making them instruments for their aggrandizement.

Under these distressing conditions, the Grace of God is the only hope of man; that is the beacon to illumine the path. That is the compassion which rewards man for his spiritual struggle. That is the strong steady ship that can take him safely across.

Many preceptors and teachers declare that the path of inquiry into oneself is the path of liberation for man, "Swa vimarso mokshah - Self-inquiry leads to Liberation" is the assurance. "That is the Atma; that is my self", "I and the Atma are not different", "The Atma and the Paramatma are not separate". The yarn 'I' is both warp and woof of the cloth, the Atma. When the 'I' yarn is found in different bodies and feels that in each body it is distinct from the rest, the Atma cloth can be said to disappear; but in both yarn and cloth, there is one substance ever persisting, in spite of how each feels - and that substance is 'cotton'. So too, Paramatma persists as the only Truth, in the 'I' the Atma. Without the cotton, Parmatma, there can be no 'I' yarn; without the 'I' yarn, there can be no Atma cloth. These three - Paramatma, Atma and I - are only forms and names for the One - the Paramatma, the One Atma, the Divine Atma.