The highest teaching of adrite vedanta is fore the most qualified students. The middle category are the sutres, the very compact sayings and aphorisms. Then forget all the other texts, which wae riten lateronfor the rest of us. There are books for both hearing and reasoning as well as meditation. Once we have clarity about what is being taught, what has been said, we need to keep seeing it. And that's what asta matchlessly the highest truth.
As part of retreat inspired by the Ashtavakra Gita, Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on the connection between the path of knowledge and devotion.