The Terminus Is Realization

Man is saved by Vedanta, which is like the roar of the lion; it gives courage and enterprise; it makes one a hero. It does not whine or howl or cry. It instils the highest types of self-confidence. It is the strongest armour against the arrows of fate, a waterproof against the hailstorms of sensual pleasure. It is a curtain keeping out the mosquitoes of worry, which would otherwise rob you of sleep. With a Vedanta-saturated heart, you are a rock on the shore, unaffected by the waves of temptation. Vedanta challenges your spirit of adventure, your own reality. Board the train of spiritual discipline now and you will reach the terminus which is jnana (absolute knowledge of you and of all this). In a train journey you do not get down in the middle when some station attracts you. So too, in the spiritual journey the stations are karma (action), upasana (contemplation), and so on. You have to pass through them, but remember they are not the terminus. The terminus is Realisation.

Vedanta the meaning is the end of Veda. 

If we are not sure about what scripture it is, here Swami is very clear about it. It is Vedanta that makes us the rock on the shore, unaffected by the waves. 

He calls it even a Vedanta-saturated heart. 

And he mentions our spirit of adventure and our own reality. 

We should board the train of spiritual discipline now and reach the terminus which is Jnana and often we hear some people telling us that they are not into Jnana and it is misunderstood as intellectual and Bhakti is the heart, but there is no heart without the head, truth has to come from the heart.
If we think heart is feeling and love only and truth has to do with intellect, it is a misunderstanding. 
Truth is based on insights and therefore it has to be the heart and right action is the reflection of truth that comes up in the heart. 
If we have truth and right action blended, we have peace and that needs to be understood. And when we understand that we have to blend truth and right action to find peace, we don't imagine peace as a mind state, we know it has to do with realization and only when we have those three things, right action, truth and peace, we are able to get the experience of pure love. 
It is not what we imagine love is on the feeling level only, it is truth that comes from the heart the insight. 
If people separate in their mind Bhakti, devotion and Jnana, wisdom it is probably because they don't listen to Swami's words. 
And probably it is just as an excuse, but here Swami is clear beyond doubt, without knowledge it is impossible, without wisdom even if there is love, it will not be pure love. It is the wisdom that makes it pure. 

We have all stations on that journey, we have karma, action, upasana, contemplation and with Vedanta we will reach the terminus, that is the main thing to reach the terminus. That needs to be understood right. 
Truth is in the heart and right action is its reflection and when we blend the two, truth and right action we have peace and if we separate truth and right action, we have only pieces left. 
Some think they practice mostly Karma and others Bhakti only, but that are stations on the way, the terminus is realization, self-realization. 
We have to listen to his words and we will not think and tell such wrong things and get to wrong conclusions. 
He asked in the interview room, 'why are you here' and nobody knew the answer, after a while he gave the answer, 'self-realization. 

The terminus is realization and that is without Jnana not possible and as he said not long ago, fulfillment in action will be there when the dawn of Jnana is there. 

The terminus is realization.