{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38221.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38221.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38221.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n12. Of him who has merely read the Veda (there is qualification for works).\nAs the clause, 'Having learnt (read) the Veda from a family of teachers,' speaks only of the reading, we determine that acts are there enjoined for him who has only read the Veda.--But from this it would follow that on account of being destitute of knowledge such a person would not be qualified for works!--Never mind; we do not mean to deny that the understanding of sacrificial acts which springs from the reading of the texts is the cause of qualification for their performance; we only wish to establish that the knowledge of the Self derived from the Upanishads is seen to have an independent purpose of its own and therefore does not supply a reason of qualification for acts. Analogously a person who is qualified for one act does not require the knowledge of another act.\nAgainst the reasoning of S\u00fbtra 7 we make the following remark.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Third Adhy\u00e2ya. Fourth P\u00e2da.: III, 4, 12","type":"page"}