When the body, has been purified with purificatary rites, the owner thereof is called a Prahmana and becomes a vessel fit for receiving knowledge of Brahma. Know that the meed of acts is purity of heart which only brings on Liberation. I shall now speak to you of that.
कृतशुद्धशरीरो हि पात्रं भवति ब्राह्मणः। आनन्त्यमत्र बुद्ध्यदं कर्मणां तद् ब्रवीमि ते॥