Rare are persons fully conversant with the Vedas and depending upon the injunctions contained therein. The intelligent however consider the abstention from acts as the better of the two, viz., heaven and liberation.
दुर्लभा वेदविद्वांसो वेदोक्तेषु व्यवस्थिताः। प्रयोजनं महत्त्वात्तु मार्गमिच्छन्ति संस्तुतम्॥