Yasya sarve samarambhah kama-sankalpa-varjitah, jnanagni-dagdha-karmanam tam ahuh panditam budhah
The wise call that person a pandit (learned one) whose every undertaking is free from desire and personal motive, and whose actions are burned up by the fire of knowledge.
- •True scholarship is measured by freedom from selfish desire
- •Knowledge as fire purifies the storehouse of karma
- •The enlightened person acts but leaves no karmic residue