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The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896] at sacred-texts.com

p. 289

4. Because scripture directly states that.

'What a man does with knowledge, faith and the Upanishad is more powerful' (Kh. Up. I, 1, 10): this passage directly states that knowledge is subordinate to work ¹, and from this it follows that mere knowledge cannot effect the purpose of man.

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289:1 For the instrumental case 'vidyayâ' directly represents knowledge as a means of work.

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