The only way to successfully interpret religious scriptures is if you do not need to interpret them, and do not care to do so. You must not have preconceived ideas about whether such writings are in fact spiritual in nature at all.
Only when your wisdom is independent of books, when the words of the "Great Wise Men" are irrelevant to you, and you have the wisdom gone beyond, can you do justice to the blood of others.
The one who reads books or listens to the words of others in search of Truth is someone who does not know the Truth. Knowers of Truth do not look for Truth outside of themselves. One who is ignorant of Truth cannot correctly interpret the words of one who is realized. So I say, don't mistake knowledge for advancement: seek only the source of knowledge.
The fool lacks the courage to look within himself for Truth, so he looks everywhere else. He runs from himself, seeking his head which he thinks he has lost. He runs from Truth to set up something more agreeable.
The authority of the sage does not come from any scriptures or any grand historic tradition, but is his own, and is absolute.