Manava Dharmashastra 6.74

6.74

anantarasya vidheḥ phalamāha | samyagdarśanamanantaroktamātmano yathārthajñānaṃ, tena saṃpannaḥ kṛtasākṣātkāraḥ | karmabhirna nibadhyate | saṃsāraṃ nānuvartate | kṛtānāṃ karmaṇāṃ bhogena kṣayādanyeṣāmakaraṇāt | na punaranena kevalāt jñānānmokṣa ukto bhavati | darśanenā''dhyātmikena vedāntopadiṣṭena yo virahitaḥ kevalakarmakārī sa saṃsārameti |

Equipped with true insight, he is no longer fettered by his acts; but destitute of insight, he falls into the cycle of births and deaths.—(74)

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
This describes the result of what has been just enjoined.

‘True insight’—true knowledge of the Self, just described; ‘equipped’ with this,—i.e., having obtained direct apprehension of it.

‘Is not fettered by acts’— does not fall into the cycle of births and deaths; since the past acts have become exhausted on account of their effects having been already experienced, and no fresh acts are done.

This does not mean that Liberation is attained by mere knowledge.

He who is not endowed with the spiritual insight, taught in the Vedānta, and who is only given to the performance of acts, falls into the cycle of births and deaths.—(74)