Mundaka Upanishads:~ So-called spiritual pundits and learned are called children because a child takes whatever it thinks as truth.+

There is no need for the scriptures, religion, and religious ideas of God.  One has to be more rational to realize the Advaitic truth, which is the ultimate truth or scientific truth. 

Mundaka Upanishads:~ So-called spiritual pundits and learned are called children because a child takes whatever it thinks as truth. The question never occurs to children “Is what I have seen or thought really the truth?" (P.334 line 9)

Bhagavad Gita 2:46:~  "A man of true knowledge who has attained enlightenment, has the same use for all the scriptures as one has for a small reservoir of water in a place flooded on all sides."

Sage Sankara:~  VC Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal Gods be propitiated` yet, without the realization of one‘s identity with the Self, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not  even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together (verses-6)

Scriptures are not needed in the pursuit of truth. Even the Upanishads and the sages of truth declare the same.  The ultimate truth has to be ascertained without the scriptures. Scriptural mastery is not wisdom.   The ultimate truth has to be ascertained without the scriptures

The scripture mastery, the force of religious merit--none of these lead to the realization of that Ultimate Truth or Brahman. The ultimate truth is revealed in the clear understanding and realization of ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’.  When one realizes the untruth (universe) is created out of single stuff, the Self-awareness rises in the midst of duality exposing the unreal nature of the form, time, and space.

The ultimate truth has to be realized first, and then only it is possible to know what the scriptures are saying. I do not require any scriptures. Scriptural citation and the citation of the sages of truth can be quoted only after deeper verification.  Only those who are capable of judging the scriptures from the non-dualistic perspective will know the true essence of the Advaitic truth.

All the pundits’ knowledge of the scriptures is based on the dualistic perspective. Knowledge based on the dualistic perspective will not yield Advaitic wisdom. All the dualistic philosophy is based on the false self (ego) and false experience.  Thus, all the dualistic theories and philosophies have to be discarded if one wants to realize the truth beyond form, time, and space.

The truth has to be proved to point out that the scriptures teach the same thing.  If one quotes them before having demonstrated truth, then it is scholasticism.

Scriptures are being added from time to time. This process will go on. There is the final authority among them? One contradicts the other: duality reigns supreme.

That is why Sage Sankara says: ~VC~ 59. The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.

60. The Scriptures consisting of many words are a dense forest that merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence, men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.

61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?

Self-knowledge cannot be attained by the study of the scriptures and intellectual understanding or by bookish knowledge.  Therefore, there is no use in studying the scriptures and other scriptures in order to acquire non-dual wisdom.  That is why Buddha rejected the scriptures, and even Sage Sankara indicated that the ultimate truth lies beyond religion, the concept of God, and the scriptures. :~Santthosh Kumaar