Aphorisms on Brahman 2.658.2

2.658.2

'kurvanneveha karmāṇi jijīviṣecchataṃ samāḥ /
evaṃ tvayi nānyatheto 'sti na karma lipyate nare' (īśa. 2) iti /
tathā 'etadvai jarāmaryaṃ satraṃ yadagnihotraṃ jarayā vā hyevāsmānmucyate mṛtyunā vā' ityevañjātīyakānniyamādapi karmaśeṣatvameva vidhyayā iti // 7 //

'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' (Îsa. Up. 2); 'The Agnihotra is a sattra lasting up to old age and death; for through old age one is freed from it or through death' (Sat. Brâ. XII, 4, 1, 1); from such definite rules also it follows that knowledge is merely supplementary to works.