What do the Vedas instruct as action? What is the final meaning of the Vedas? What alternatives do the Vedas raise? No one except me or my dear devotee knows the intended meaning of the Vedas. It is difficult to know the actual svarūpa or nature of the Vedas. That has just been explained. The meaning is also difficult to understand. What is to be done by following the Vedas? What do the Vedas order the jīva to do for his benefit? What is the meaning of the Vedas? What is meant by indicating various alternatives? Should I do this? Or this? Or that? “The meaning is clear. The śruti indicates karma by seeing statements like ‘One should worship the sandhyās daily; by karma one goes to Pitṛ-loka.’ So this is what should be done. The śrutis indicate dharma as the meaning in statements like codanā-lakṣaṇo dharmaḥ: dharma is characterized by injunctions of the Vedas. This is the meaning of the Vedas. As for alternatives, there are alternative rules in dharma such as performing sacrifice by offering either rice or barley. Or, there are alternatives like bhakti, niṣkāma-karma and jṣāna stated one after the other. Thus it is said: bhakti-yogaś ca yogaś ca mayā mānavy udīritaḥ | tayor ekatareṇaiva puruṣaḥ puruṣaṁ vrajet || I have indicated both bhakti and yoga, O Manavī! A person may attain the Lord by either of these processes.” O fools! This is not so! No one knows the intention (hṛdayam) of the Vedas except me! No one except a person dear to me can know the meaning intended by me.