Even if a scholar has mastered all learning, he should listen to the stories of Krishna with devotion. When milk, ghee, and sugar meet together, they embrace in a sweetness that is beyond description. Knowing this profit, take it into your lap; savor the sweet upon the sweet, dear one. Uproot the very sprout of intellectual pride if you truly care about your own liberation. All the fragrant substances and fine remedies, the sandalwood paste applied upon the body, are nothing; without having eaten, all adornment is hollow, and so is life without the taste of Hari's story. The Vedas, the scriptures, and the Puranas all exist for this alone: that same Vitthal stands present in the gathering of devotion. Says Tuka, everything else is but heaps of stone; all the turmoil of the world has its root right there.