If a person celebrated even a hundred sacrifices, he is doomed to see the exhaustion of the merits belonging to the libations poured therein. The duties, however which I have mentioned are 'such that when observed by persons having faith their merit becomes endless.
अपि क्रतुशतैरिष्ट्वा क्षयं गच्छति तद्धविः। न तु क्षीयन्ति ते धर्माः श्रद्दधानैः प्रयोजिताः॥