आगमे ब्राह्मे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

Of him who has merely read the Veda (there is qualification for works).

As the clause, ‘Having learnt (read) the Veda from a family of teachers,’ speaks only of the reading, we determine that acts are there enjoined for him who has only read the Veda.

But from this it would follow that on account of being destitute of knowledge such a person would not be qualified for works!

Never mind; we do not mean to deny that the understanding of sacrificial acts which springs from the reading of the texts is the cause of qualification for their performance; we only wish to establish that the knowledge of the Self derived from the Upanishads is seen to have an independent purpose of its own and therefore does not supply a reason of qualification for acts. Analogously a person who is qualified for one act does not require the knowledge of another act.

Against the reasoning of Sūtra 7 we make the following remark.