“The key to the difference between the Veda and what followed, is the point Sri Aurobindo makes when he states that dristi, sruti, smriti, ketu formed the foundation of the Vedic experience. These are illuminations that arise solely within one’s inner being, never through dissolution of the nexus of one’s consciousness by extension to the Beyond. Yet though this Earth-orientation is the primary ingredient in a true Vedic quest, its very first premise, it is entirely overlooked today. Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet,  “Sri Aurobindo and the Condition of Vedic Wisdom in India”

 “The perfect truth of the Veda, where it is now hidden, can only be recovered by the same means by which it was originally possessed. Revelation and experience are the doors of the Spirit. It cannot be attained either by logical reasoning or by scholastic investigation… [Sanskrit text]…‘Not by explanation of texts nor by much learning’, ‘not by logic is this realisation attainable.’ Logical reasoning and scholastic research can only be aids useful for confirming to the intellect what has already been acquired by revelation and spiritual experience. This limitation, this necessity are the inexorable results of the very nature of Veda.”                                                             Sri Aurobindo – The Life Divine