The rewards of sacrifices and gifts, as also of fasts and religious observances, are not so powerful in rescuing as truth, O foremost of men, in both this and the next world.
न यज्ञाध्ययने दानं नियमास्तारयन्ति हि। यथा सत्यं परे लोके तथेह पुरुषर्षभ॥