Secular knowledge is no doubt necessary for getting on in life. The bliss of spirituality cannot be achieved without the minimal necessities of life. But, secular knowledge is not the be-all and end-all of human existence. Spiritual knowledge is, as a matter of fact, more important than material knowledge. All branches of human knowledge are like rivers and spirituality is like the unfathomable and uncharted ocean. Just as the rivers flow into the sea and merge in it, all secular knowledge fulfills itself in spiritual knowledge.
(Summer Showers 1979, pg 120)
