Advanced yogés are not very much attracted to the rituals of the scriptures, but they automatically become attracted to the yoga principles, which can elevate them to complete Kåñëa consciousness, the highest yoga perfection. In the Çrémad-Bhägavatam (3.33.8), such disregard of Vedic rituals by the advanced transcendentalists is explained as follows:

The famous example of this was presented by Lord Caitanya, who accepted Öhäkur Haridäsa as one of His most important disciples. Although Öhäkur Haridäsa happened to take his birth in a Moslem family, he was elevated to the post of nämäcärya by Lord Caitanya due to his rigidly attended principle of chanting three hundred thousand holy names of the Lord daily: Hare Kåñëa, Hare Kåñëa, Kåñëa Kåñëa, Hare Hare/ Hare Räma, Hare Räma, Räma Räma, Hare Hare. And because he chanted the holy name of the Lord constantly, it is understood that in his previous life he must have passed through all the ritualistic methods of the Vedas, known as çabda-brahman. Unless, therefore, one is purified, one cannot take to the principle of Kåñëa consciousness nor become engaged in chanting the holy name of the Lord, Hare Kåñëa.