Therefore one should carefully try to obtain knowledge by means of the Vedas. The Vedas are the supreme soul, they are his body, they are the truth. The soul, that is bound by the animal organism belonging to a man in whom all the Vedas are manifest, can (only) know Him.
वेदपूर्वं वेदितव्यं प्रयत्नात् तद् वै वेदस्तस्य वेदः शरीरम्। वेदस्तत्त्वं तत्समासोपलब्धौ क्लीबस्त्वात्मा तत् स वेद्यस्य वेद्यम्॥