न तस्य तत्त्वग्रहणाय साक्षाद्वरीयसीरपि वाच: समासन् । स्वप्ने निरुक्त्या गृहमेधिसौख्यंन यस्य हेयानुमितं स्वयं स्यात् ॥ ३ ॥
na tasya tattva-grahanaya saksad variyasir api vacah samasan svapne niruktya grhamedhi-saukhyam na yasya heyanumitam svayam syat
- na
- not
- tasya
- of him (a student studying the Vedas)
- tattva-grahanaya
- for accepting the real purpose of Vedic knowledge
- saksat
- directly
- variyasih
- very exalted
- api
- although
- vacah
- words of the Vedas
- samasan
- sufficiently became
- svapne
- in a dream
- niruktya
- by example
- grha-medhi-saukhyam
- happiness within this material world
- na
- not
- yasya
- of him who
- heya-anumitam
- concluded to be inferior
- svayam
- automatically
- syat
- become
A dream becomes automatically known to a person as false and immaterial, and similarly one eventually realizes that material happiness in this life or the next, on this plane or a higher plane, is insignificant. When one realizes this, the Vedas, although an excellent source, are insufficient to bring about direct knowledge of the truth.