You can lay claim to that name Bhakta only when you have placed yourself in My hands, fully, completely, with no trace of ego kept back to cater to your vanity. (SSS Vol.4, p. 7)

You cannot lay claim to be my devotee unless you have surrendered everything to my care. (WMF, p. 27)

You can lay claim to being a devotee

Only when you have placed yourself in my hands

Fully and completely without any trace of ego.

Then can you can enjoy the bliss

Through the experience that the Avatar confers

(WLMG, p. 241)

It would be unwarranted to claim that a person who has reached the acme of intelligence has thereby progressed and succeeded in reaching the acme of spiritual wisdom. Scholarship and culture are not related as cause and effect. However learned one is in worldly knowledge is mere junk. The system of education, which teaches culture and helps the culture to permeate and purify the learning that is gathered, is the best and most fruitful. (SS July 05, p. 198)