Acharya Prashant explains a couplet by Kabir Saheb, stating that it highlights the superiority of devotion (Bhakti) over knowledge (Gyan). He clarifies that your knowledge is worthless if it lacks the feeling of devotion. All your cleverness goes to the stove, and your knowledge catches fire if you do not have devotion. However, this does not mean that knowledge has no value. Citing another couplet by Kabir, he mentions that the soap of knowledge and meditation is necessary. Knowledge in itself is wonderful, unique, and very precious, but at the final step, it must be transformed into devotion. Conversely, devotion without knowledge is a great hypocrisy. Surrendering without understanding is also a great hypocrisy and amounts to blind surrender. The correct process is to first use the intellect fully to dissect and sift through everything. But once the truth becomes apparent, one must not stand and fight anymore but bow down completely. Otherwise, this very knowledge will become your enemy. Knowledge that does not transform into devotion is mere cleverness; it starts to rot and becomes cunningness, a toy of the ego. This is a fatal ego, the ego of the knowledgeable, like that of Ravana, where the ego has gained knowledge and now shreds everything to pieces. Knowledge is like a double-edged sword. With it, you must cut the untruth, and in the end, you must also cut yourself. This suicide is called devotion; this is called surrender. If your knowledge cuts everything else but saves itself, it will lead to great trouble, and you will become a mere scholar or pundit. Quoting Bulleh Shah, he says that by reading, one becomes a scholar, but one never reads oneself. In the end, one must read the 'two and a half letters' of love. If you don't, all that you have read will turn against you. The process cannot be reversed; one cannot attain the essence by merely adopting the external signs. The element (Tattva) comes first, and the symptoms (lakshan) appear later. For instance, when Mahavira attained enlightenment, his clothes fell off. This does not mean that anyone who sheds their clothes becomes Mahavira. This state is a sign of non-doership, of letting existence flow without being an obstacle.