। ॥ १८७ ॥
In plain words
Even a blazing fire fed by millions of fuel-logs cannot assist the sun by even a fraction. In the same way, what use are billions of ritual actions before knowledge? Ignorance simply vanishes by itself.
Close to the Sanskrit
Even though ablaze with crores of fuel, fire is not able to assist the sun even slightly; just so, what of crores of thousands of actions for knowledge? It dissolves by itself indeed.