Vedanta is a mirror. It's something that shows us. Just as what you see in the mirror is not the real eyes, but good enough. Using that, you can understand what the eyes are. If you know how to use vedanta, that realization will come. This is of the nature of awareness, self luminous. It reveals itself, and it reveals everything else. Because it shines, it does not need another light to reveal it just like these lights. They shine and they reveal the entire hall. So the artmen is like that. And yet we are missing it all the time. I remember this amazing senior monk who is no more now ar. He
As part of retreat inspired by the Ashtavakra Gita, Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on the connection between the path of knowledge and devotion.