Establishment of Brahman 3.24

3.24

vidhyadhīnaḥ puruṣārthasādhanatāvabodhaḥ, tacchabdato labdhajanmano 'pyātmatattvāvabodhasya puruṣārthasādhanatvāvagamo vidherityetadapi na śobhanam /

The apprehension of being a means to a human end depends on an injunction; the apprehension that knowledge of the reality of the Self—even when it has obtained its birth from that verbal testimony—is a means to a human end comes from an injunction: this too is not plausible.