Scriptures are sometimes uncertain guides

Mother: That’s true, indeed. The almanac makes a forecast of rain. But you do not get a drop by squeezing its pages. Besides, the Scriptures are filled with many useless things. One cannot observe, to the letter, the injunctions of the Scriptures. The Master used to say, The Bhakti hedged round by the Scriptural injunctions hardly justifies the name. . . .”