What use is mere recitation and study without living it? Without true practice, everything goes to waste. Sweet words on the tongue mean nothing if one still writhes in spiritual hunger. No amount of grinding and cooking will make a stone edible. The bee gathers honey, but it is the hunter who takes it. The miser hoards wealth and gathers only dust; what ends up in his mouth is the same dust. Says Tuka, only the one who acts upon what he knows truly reaps the reward; I bow at such a one's feet.