When, despite the adoption of these emblems of a particular mode of life, Knowledge along becomes the cause of one's Liberation from sorrow, it would appear that the adoption of mere emblems is absolutely useless.
यदि सत्यपि लिङ्गेऽस्मिन् ज्ञानमेवात्र कारणम्। निर्मोक्षायेह दुःखस्य लिङ्गमानं निरर्थकम्॥