उपमर्दं च ॥ १६ ॥
upamardaṃ ca || 16 ||
upamardaṃ—Destruction; ca—and.
16. And (the scriptures say that the) destruction (of all qualifications for work results from Knowledge).
Knowledge destroys all ignorance and its products like agent, act, and result. “But when to the knower of Brahman everything has become the Self, then what should one see and through what” etc. (Brih. 4. 5. 15). The knowledge of the Self is antagonistic to all work and so cannot possibly be subsidiary to work.