Love and Reason

The human intellect and the knowledge acquired through it cannot take us beyond the limits of space and time. Love, on the other hand, can transcend all these limits and take us to the imperceptible, incomprehensible and indescribable region where the Lord abides.…

Sultan Bahu says all those who have not learned the lesson of love wander about in delusion, bereft of the experience of reality:

They have read thousands of books,
they have come to be known as great scholars.
But the one word, ‘love’, they could not grasp
so helplessly they wander in delusion.
A lover, with but one glance of love,
can carry millions to their deliverance.
But a million glances cast by a scholar
will not ferry a soul across to salvation.
Vast is the gulf between love and intellect.
Those who have not purchased love
in the market place of this life, O Bahu,
will always be losers in this world and the next.
_{Bait 33}