Karmanirnaya 11_57

11_57

'As they stand' [means] well-known. Reciting [the verses] as they stand, without combining them hither and thither, is the attainment of the path.
'He who has met [with misfortune] and thinks of himself as fallen from prosperity should have the Ṣoḷaśin recited unseparated, [saying]: "May I not fall down from the metre into distress." Then, he who would wish to strike away evil should have the Ṣoḷaśin recited separated; for a person is, as it were, intertwined with evil. That [recitation] drives away for him that very evil, the stain, intertwined. He who knows thus strikes away evil.' (Aitareya-brāhmaṇa 4.2)