Having examined the worlds won by works, a Brahmin should reach detachment: the uncreated is not gained by what is created. To know that, he should approach a teacher, fuel in hand, one learned in scripture and established in Brahman.

परीक्ष्य लोकान् कर्मचितान् ब्राह्मणो निर्वेदमायान्नास्त्यकृतः कृतेन । तद्विज्ञानार्थं स गुरुमेवाभिगच्छेत् समित्पाणिः श्रोत्रियं ब्रह्मनिष्ठम् ॥ १२॥