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Month after month, a spiritually immature person may eat his food with the tip of a blade of (sacred) kusa-grass,6 (yet) his worth is not a fraction (lit., not a sixteenth part) of those who have ascertained the truth.

Footnotes

6. Kusa-grass was used in Vedic rituals, hence ‘sacred’.