Can reading of scriptures give Self realisation?
A. No. That cannot give one Self realisation. Indeed they can help one a great deal in progressing towards the attainment of the goal by bestowing intellectual realisation of the Absolute provided one has a robust intellect to choose between the rational and the irrational, the probable and the improbable, the vivid and the vague, the real and the unreal. But Self realisation is more than intellectual enlightenment. It is innate experience of the Reality, effected through a complete transformation of one’s nature. Study of scriptures is an effective auxiliary in this direction.
