that those who constantly strive to understand the ways and methods of the objective world and its origin and its being surely attain divinity ("aishvarya"). sayana commenting on mantra iii.27.7 observes that the most common meaning of "māyā" are "prajñā" ('intelligence') and "kapata" ('deceit') and that "kratu" of the compound-word "sukratu" in mantra i.20.8 implies either "karma" (act) or "prajñā" ('knowledge').