The study of the Vedanta-Sutra [Philosophical treatise of Avatar Vyasadeva, made up of aphorisms on the nature of Absolute Truth, and composed as a conclusion to the Vedas, the original holy scriptures] by the ascending path. The study of the Vedanta-Sutra by the ascending path is indeed just another form of foolishness. Conversely, whoever has developed an attraction for the chanting of the transcendental vibration [Hare Krishna] has already achieved the conclusion of Vedanta.
In this context, two verses of Srimad-Bhagavatam prove to be very instructive. The tenor of the first is that whoever practices the chanting of the transcendental vibration, even if he is of very low birth, has already clearly performed all kinds of austerity and acts of renunciation, offered all kinds of sacrifices and studied all Brahma-Sutras [another name for Vedanta-Sutra] to be able to sing in this way;
Hare Krishna, hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, hare hare / Hare Rama, hare Rama, Rama Rama, hare hare.
The second verse emphasizes for its part that anyone who sings or recites the two syllables of the word Hare must be considered as having studied the four Vedas, namely the Rig-veda, the Atharva-veda, the yajour-veda and the Sama-veda.
Having said that, many pseudo-devotees believe that the Vedanta-Sutra is not intended for devotees, but rather for a specific class of men. They ignore that Vedanta is the only point of reference for pure devotees. All the great holy spiritual masters of the four philosophical schools have written a commentary on the Vedanta-Sutra, but the pseudo-devotees that are the prakrita-sahajiyas [refers to people who imitate the signs of pure love for God, while remaining addicted to the low pleasures of sex and intoxication] no less scrupulously refrain from studying the Vedanta-Sutra, wrongly taking the pure devotees and the great holy spiritual masters for pious followers of self-interested action or intellectual speculation. This is how they become mayavadis [We group together under this term the supporters of various philosophies all falling under one or the other of the two main categories of impersonnalism, or sankarism (which advocates identification with the spiritual being), and nihilism (also known as the philosophy of the void, akin to Buddhism (which denies the existence of the soul, and of God)] and abandon the service of the Supreme Lord.
The study of the Vedanta-Sutra by the academic ways does not in any way allow us to understand the value of the transcendental vibration. The slaves of theoretical knowledge are conditioned souls who confuse the realities of ego and mine, and that is why they are unable to detach their minds from external energy.