When the Understanding becomes freed from qualities, then only can it attain to Brahma. When it is endued with qualities, it falls back from the Supreme. Indeed, such is the nature of the understanding that it rushes towards qualities and moves among them like fire among fuel.
नैर्गुण्याद् ब्रह्म चाप्नोति सगुणत्वानिवर्तते। गुणप्रचारिणी बुद्धि ताशन इवेन्धने॥