Manava Dharmashastra 6.85

6.85

krameṇa yogo'nuṣṭhānam | ātmajñānakarmaṇoḥ samuccaye yaḥ krama uktaḥ, tena ṛṇāpākaraṇaṃ kṛtvetyarthaḥ | vidhūya pāpmānamaśva iva romarajāṃsi, tathaivātmavidyayā | yathoktaṃ "yathā puṣkarapalāśa āpo na śliṣyantyevametadvidi pāpaṃ karma na śliṣyatīti" | paraṃ brahmādhigacchati tadrūpaḥ saṃpadyate nivṛttabhedagraha iti vidyāśramaphalavidhiḥ |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Successive process’—the adopting of the method that has been described as consisting of the combination of action and knowledge;—i.e., after having paid off his debts.

‘Shakes off evil’—just as the horse shakes off its hairs, so the nun shakes off evil by means of self-knowledge. This has been thus described—‘Just as the water does not become attached to the. lotus-leaf so evil does not become attached to the man who knows It.’

‘He attains the Supreme Brahman’—becomes one with Brahman, having got rid of all notions of diversity.

This verse describee the reward following from true knowledge and from the proper fulfilment of the duties of the particular life-stage.—(85).