Manava Dharmashastra 4.260

4.260

sarvasyasya phalakathanametat | anena vipro vartayanvartamāno vedaśāstraviddvyapetakalmaṣaḥ pratiṣedhāparādhajaṃ pāpaṃ kalmaṣaṃ tadvyapetaṃ vyapanītaṃ prāyaścittaiḥ | tenaitaduktaṃ bhavati | vihitakaraṇātpratiṣiddhasyānāsevanātkathaṃcitkṛtasya prāyaścittairniṣkṛtatvāt | brahmaloke mahīyate brahmaloke sthānaviśeṣe mahimānaṃ prāpnoti | darśanāntaraṃ brahmarūpaḥ sampadyata iti siddham |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
This describes the result of all that has gone before.

‘The Brāhmaṇa, learned in the Vedic scriptures, who conducts himself by this course of life, has his sins’—arising from doing what is forbidden—‘removed’—by means of Expiatory Rites. The meaning is that by doing what is enjoined, and by avoiding what is forbidden, and by expiating by means of rites those sins that may happen to be committed,—‘becomes exalted in the region of Brahman;— or, according to another theory, be becomes of the same nature as Brahman—(260)