। ॥ २०० ॥
In plain words
The Lord too rules it out: the Vedas and everything of their kind are not the means by which the Self stands directly known. "Not by the Vedas, not by austerity" — that is how he puts it, and the verse goes on from there.
Close to the Sanskrit
The Lord also denies the instrumentality of the Vedas and the rest with respect to the direct realization of the Self, by such words as 'Not by the Vedas, nor by austerity [am I seen]...'