The ignorant, one who does not know the Self; the faithless, one without trust in the words of the teacher and in scripture; and the doubting-minded, one whose mind is full of doubt, all perish. Although the ignorant and the faithless perish, they do not perish as the doubting-minded one does; the doubting-minded one is the most sinful of all. How? Not even this common world is his, nor the world beyond, nor happiness, since doubt arises for the doubting-minded one even there. Therefore doubt should not be entertained. Why?

The ignorant man, lacking the knowledge gained from teaching, without faith in the means of growth of the knowledge taught, not making haste, and of doubting self, of doubting mind regarding the knowledge taught, is ruined, is lost. For one of doubting self regarding this taught knowledge that regards the truth of the self, there is not even this world of matter, nor the next, and the human goals, the duty, wealth, pleasure, and the rest, are not accomplished; whence liberation? Since all the human goals have the form of the success of scriptural action, and the success born of scriptural action is preceded by the certainty of a self distinct from the body, therefore, for one of doubting self regarding the self, the having of even a particle of happiness is not possible.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.