In English
There are many people who every day recite the in the but unless they put into practice what they are learning from the , they cannot really be called Vedic persons. They may be so called only for external descriptive purposes. If one is able to practise what he learns in the and derives the spiritual pleasure, such a person can readily be called a truly learned person. The three processes namely , and which one has to adopt for reaching the end of the in the have already been mentioned. Without going through these three processes, mere recitation can be called just scholarship, knowledge in the context of the world. Such knowledge will not go to the depths of his heart and will not reveal the aspect of to him at all. The kind of knowledge where one does not follow up the process of listening with the process of thinking it over and digesting it, will at best, be learning without proper background or the requisite culture in it. Any piece of matter or even a living individual that has not been purified and attended to and has not been given the transformation that is necessary, will not be in a proper and natural form.