A woman may adore herself with very attractive embellishments but without surrendering to her husband, cannot enjoy the pleasure of playing with her son.
If a tree is watered day and night, it can not bloom with flowers in any other season than spring.
If a farmer ploughs his field and sows seed in it even in the month of Sawan, then without rain the seed cannot sprout.
Similarly, a man may dress himself in any number of disguises and wander the world over. Even then he cannot acquire the radiance of knowledge without the initiation of the True Guru and receiving His precept. (635)