The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c5.s5.t2.9

c5.s5.t2.9

This advantage, however, of being allowed occasionally to ignore experience, holds good only in the case of the Vedânta teacher, but not of his opponent (p. 595, 8): "The follower of the Brahman investigates the being of the cause [of the world] and the like, relying on the [sacred] tradition, and it is not unconditionally necessary for him to accept every thing in accordance with perception (na avaçyam tasya yathâ-drishtam eva sarvam abhyupagantavyam); but the opponent, who investigates the being of the cause [of the world] and the like, relying on the examples of experience (drishtânta), must accept everything according to experience,—that is the difference."