Vedanta and all the great spiritual teachers of the world, therefore, always discouraged them. Vivekananda preached Vedanta to de-hypnotise such and other already hypnotized people in the East and the West; ‘Strength, strength is what the Upanisads preach to me from every page,’ he proclaimed. He preferred people becoming atheistic and agnostic to becoming superstitious fools; for the atheist and the agnostic, he said, can still attain freedom, but not those who are weakened by superstition. That is why Sri Krsna preached in the Gita, buddhi yoga, the yoga of reason, as the unfailing guide in life.