Aphorisms on Brahman 12.10

12.10

3-4-10
|yadeva vidyayā karotīti śrutiḥ sarvavidyāyāḥ karmāṅgatvaṃ vidadhātītyetadasaṅgatam; atra vidyāśabdābhihitā tu na sārvatrikī, api tūdgīthavidyā| yatkaroti, tadvidyayeti naivaṃ padānvayaḥ; api tu yadeva vidyayā karoti, tadeva vīryavattaramiti| vidyayā kriyamāṇasyānyato'vagatasya vīryavattaratvaṃ pratisādhanabhāvo'vagamyate, yadeveti prasiddhavannirdeśāt| anyato'vagatirhi |udgīthamupāsīteti sannihitodgīthavidyāyāḥ||

3-4-10
The claim that the scriptural text ‘Whatever indeed one performs with knowledge’ enjoins that all knowledge is subordinate to ritual action is untenable. For the [knowledge] expressed here by the word ‘knowledge’ is not universal, but rather the udgītha-knowledge. The syntactical connection of the words is not: ‘what one performs, that [one performs] with knowledge’; rather, it is: ‘whatever indeed one performs with knowledge, that alone becomes more potent.’ It is understood that being performed with knowledge, which is known from elsewhere, is the means to greater potency, because of the reference [to it] as already known by the words ‘whatever indeed.’ For the apprehension from elsewhere belongs to the immediately proximate udgītha-knowledge in ‘One should meditate on the udgītha.’