The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 221

p. 221

केषां तर्हि स्वर्गादिसाधनम्, केषां वा चित्तशुद्धिद्वारेण ज्ञानसाधनम् ? इति ; तत्राह श्लोकद्वयेन—

In plain words

For whom, then, do these acts become a means to heaven and the like, and for whom do they become a means to knowledge, by way of purifying the mind? To that he answers in the next two verses—

Close to the Sanskrit

For whom, then, is it a means to heaven and the rest, and for whom is it a means to knowledge by way of purity of mind? — thus. On that point he speaks by means of two verses—