आगमे ब्राह्मे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

Because scripture directly states that.

‘What a man does with knowledge, faith and the Upanishad is more powerful’ (Cḥ. Up. I, 1, 10): this passage directly states that knowledge is subordinate to work ¹, and from this it follows that mere knowledge cannot effect the purpose of man.

289:1 For the instrumental case ‘vidyayā’ directly represents knowledge as a means of work. ↩︎