आगमे ब्राह्मे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

(The soul is) an agent, on account of scripture having a purport (thereby).

In connexion with the doctrine that the soul possesses for its essence the qualities of the buddhi, another attribute of the soul is set forth.

The individual soul is an agent, because thus scripture has a purport. For only on that assumption scriptural injunctions (such as ‘He is to sacrifice,’ ‘He is to make an oblation into the fire,’ ‘He is to give,’ &c.) acquire a purport; otherwise they would be purportless. For they all teach special acts to be done by agents; which would not be possible if the soul did not possess the quality of being an agent.

On that supposition a meaning belongs to the following passage also, ‘For it is he who sees, hears, perceives, conceives, acts, he the person whose Self is knowledge’ (Pr. Up. IV, 9).