“The association of a real devotee removes the stupidity (dullness) from the intellect, increases the rhetoric of truth, removes the conditioning of the mind, frees one from sins, pleases the heart and encourages one to act spiritually for liberation. What more is left to reward a person?”

jāḍyaṁ dhiyo harati siñcati vāci satyaṁ
manonnatiṁ diśati pāpam apā-karoti
cetaḥ prasādayati dikṣu tanoti kīrtī
sat-saṅgatiḥ kathaya kiṁ na karoti pumṣām

[Bhartṛ Harī, KBS0040]