To realise the knowledge of the Atma; caste is not a criterion nor monkhood, nor rituals, nor scholarship gained by study of the Shastras. Brahmanishta is the only criterion. It is this that the Upanishad text too emphasises. (Prema Vahini, p. 80)

‘Nasramam Karnam mukteh, darsanani na karanam, Tattaiva Sarvakarmani Jnanamevahi karanam’.Jnana alone is the cause of Liberation not Ashrama or philosophy. (Prema Vahini, p. 80)