Skanda Purana 7.18.89_249

7.18.89_249

sarvavidyāvidāṃ vyāsa yatīnāṃ vratacāriṇām28 .
tapasvināṃ ca viprāṇāṃ yogī śreṣṭha udāhṛtaḥ .. 34. .
nānyathā mucyate jantuḥ saṃsārāt tamasaḥ29 parāt30 .
ṣaḍviṃśakaparijñānaṃ muktvā yoganibandhanam . .3 5 ..

Of all who know every science, O Vyāsa, of ascetics, of observers of vows, / of practitioners of austerities, and of brahmins, the yogī is declared to be supreme. (34) / In no other way is a living being freed from saṃsāra, from the higher darkness, / except through thorough knowledge of the twenty-sixth [principle], rooted in yoga. (35)