You may now ask, "Does meditation help?" The answer is, "Yes, it does, it helps a great deal." If you study also at the same time, it will add to your realization. So it is not that study is useless, it is only that it is of no use without practicing meditation. Meditation is like practicing singing. By playing the piano your ears become trained in the intervals and the notes; then by further study and reading you become a master of music. It is just the same with the music of life, which is called "mysticism." Although it can be studied, it is no use unless there is practice also. What is more, if a person asks, "Suppose I play and practice with a book, can I become a great singer?", he would have to be told; "No, you need a teacher to show you how to use your voice, how to make music." If you have a teacher you can accomplish in ten years what you could never learn alone, by yourself, in a hundred years. That is the part which the guru plays.