Verse 857

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ज्ञानैकनिष्ठानिरतस्य भिक्षो -र्नैवावकाशोऽस्ति हि कर्मतन्त्रे ।तदेव कर्मास्य तदेव सन्ध्यातदेव सर्वं न ततोऽन्यदस्ति ॥ ८५७ ॥

In plain words

For the renunciate settled in knowledge and nothing besides, the whole machinery of ritual has no opening left in it. That is his rite. That is his dawn-and-dusk worship. That is everything — and apart from That, there is nothing.

Close to the Sanskrit

For the mendicant absorbed in sole abidance in knowledge, there is indeed no room at all in the framework of ritual action. That alone is his rite, that alone his sandhyā-worship, that alone everything; there is nothing other than That.