निताइ dasa
Nitai's servant's servant
Scripture is secondary. Experience/individual knowledge is best to realise the Lord. Scripture gives us that push.
I would humbly disagree mataji. I don't really want to debate further, but I will say a little bit on this. According to the Vedas, there are three ways in which one may obtain knowledge. The first is called Pratyuksha, or direct sensory inference. The second is called Anumana, or logical inference. The third is called Sabda, or hearing from an authority, ie. Scripture. Human experience falls into the first two. However since the first two are based upon this human body (more importantly the imperfect senses), they are subject to the four defects of human beings. Thus the knowledge obtained from them is always imperfect and incomplete (we cannot see into the depths of the atom. Even experience is limited as we cannot experience everything at once). The absolute Truth however is perfect and complete, it cannot be grasped on the basis of human experience alone. Yes human experience can support it, but it is always secondary. Thus mercifully God Himself has descended as Srila Veda Vyasa and written the scriptures for the benefit of all human beings, to teach them the Truth. Since the scriptures emerge from God, they are not prone to the human defects and hence carry with them the knowledge of the Truth. I mean without the scriptures, I don't think we can even be called followers of the Sanatana Dharma. However you are also partly correct too because it is experience and sukriti which builds that intial faith in scripture. Nitai!