The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of Ramanuja's Gita Bhashya, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
The Key to Yoga - 45-53
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 46
Yavan artha udapane sarvatah sampluta udake I
Tavan sarvesu vedesu brahmanasya vijanatah II sloka 46
यावान अर्थः उदपाने सर्वतः संप्लुत उदके ।
तावान सर्वेषु वेदेषु ब्राह्मणस्य विजानतः ।। श्लोक ४६
What use a thirsty person has for a water reservoir when all sides of it are flooded - that much alone is the use of all the vedas for a Brahmana who knows.
Whatever use, a thirsty person has for a reservoir, which is flooded with water on all sides and which has been constructed for all kinds of purposes like irrigation, only to that extent of it, ie., enough to drink will be of use to the thirsty person and not all of the water. Likewise, whatever in all the vedas form the means for release to knowing Brahmana, ie., one who is established in the study of the vedas and who aspires for release only to that extent is to be accepted by him and not anything else.
Whatever use, a thirsty person has for a reservoir, which is flooded with water on all sides and which has been constructed for all kinds of purposes like irrigation, only to that extent of it, ie., enough to drink will be of use to the thirsty person and not all of the water. Likewise, whatever in all the vedas form the means for release to knowing Brahmana, ie., one who is established in the study of the vedas and who aspires for release only to that extent is to be accepted by him and not anything else.
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