{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38216.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38216.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38216.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n7. And on account of definite rules.\n'Performing works here (i.e. in this life) let a man wish to live a hundred years; thus work will not cling to thee, man; there is no other way than that' (\u00cesa. Up. 2); 'The\n[paragraph continues] Agnihotra is a sattra lasting up to old age and death; for through old age one is freed from it or through death' (Sat. Br\u00e2. XII, 4, 1, 1); from such definite rules also it follows that knowledge is merely supplementary to works.\nAgainst all these objections the S\u00fbtrak\u00e2ra upholds his view in the following S\u00fbtra.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Third Adhy\u00e2ya. Fourth P\u00e2da.: III, 4, 7","type":"page"}