CWSA 17 · Incomplete Commentaries from Manuscripts
The Life Divine [2]
pp. 551–574
The perfect truth of the Veda, where it is now hidden, can only be recovered by the same means by which it was originally possessed. Revelation and experience are the doors of the Spirit. It cannot be attained either by logical reasoning or by scholastic investigation,—na pravachanena, na bahuná srutena ... na tarkenaishá matir apaneyá. "Not by explanation of texts nor by much learning" ... "not by logic is this realisation attainable." Logical reasoning and scholastic research can only be aids useful for confirming to the intellect what has already been acquired by revelation and spiritual experience. This limitation, this necessity are the inexorable results of the very nature of Veda.