Men engage themselves in many outward sadhana (spiritual practices). These must be internalised. All scholarship is of no avail if there is no realisation in the heart. A scholar may expound the texts, but lack the internal experience. One who has mastered the Vedas may be able to explain the words, but cannot recognise the Veda Purusha, the Supreme Person hailed by the Vedas. When a person goes to a temple, he closes his eyes in front of the idol, because what he seeks is an internal vision of God and not a sight of the external form of the idol. God is Omnipresent as proclaimed in the Gita. God is One, though names and forms may differ. All education today is related to the physical world. It will not serve to reveal the Divine. It was this which impelled Shankaracharya to teach a scholar who was learning by rote Panini’s grammar that at the moment of death only the Lord’s name (Govinda) will save him and not the rules of grammar. – Divine Discourse, Oct 09, 1994.