Our so-called Pandits will talk big. They will talk of Brahman, of God, of the Absolute, of Jnana Yoga, of philosophy, of ontology, and the rest. But there are very few, who have realized, what they talk about. The rest are dry and hard, and are good for nothing.
To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining to a person the city of Banaras after seeing it only in a map.
Those, who have read a little, become puffed up with pride. I had a conversation with a certain person on God. He said: "Oh, I know all this". I said to him: "Does one, who has been to Delhi, go about boasting of it? Does a gentleman ever tell us that he is a gentleman?"
That knowledge, which purifies the mind and heart, alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
In the kingdom of God, reason, intellect and learning are of no avail. There the dumb speak, the blind see, and the deaf hear.
Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna
("Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna”, Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore, Madras, BOOK I Man and the World, Ch. V, Bondage of Book-learning, Barrenness of Mere Book-Learning, 138, 140, 144, 145, 148)
