The end that is attained by Brahmanas, who, practising due observances, study the Vedas with the Upanishads according to the rules laid down for such study, and by those who follow the Religion of Yatis, is inferior, I think, to that attained by persons devoted whole-mindedly to Hari, Who first promulgated this Religion of Devotion? Was it some god or some Rishi who declared it.
सहोपनिषदान् वेदान् ये विप्राः सम्यगास्थिताः। पठन्ति विधिमास्थाय ये चापि यतिधर्मिणः॥ तेभ्यो विशिष्टां जानामि गतिमेकान्तिनां नृणाम्। केनैष धर्मः कथितो देवेन ऋषिणापि वा॥