The following are sayings of Vidyapati:
Our priests have all gone mad; they saw a demon in the wilds and at him cast their lamps and they are not broken up and not a gleam of light has any priest for men mankind.
The night is dark; the heart of India calls for light.
The priesthood cannot be reformed; it is already dead; its greatest need are graves and funeral chants.
The new age calls for liberty; the kind that makes each man person a priest; enables him them to go alone and hand over his their offerings on the shrine of God god.