Once, a lady-seeker from the Texts section informed me that she wanted to read other reference books and look out for information that could be used in our Texts. She naively thought that this effort would amount to her sadhana (Spiritual practice).
I told her that we already had enough spiritual knowledge to compile over 5,000 Texts. Your sadhana would take place when you process this knowledge and transform it into separate Texts. Hence, there is no need to read other books, even as reference material, so as to perform satseva related to the compilation of Sanatan’s Texts.
– Sachchidananda Parabrahman (Dr) Athavale