Text 27]
The Sacrifice Performed by Dakṣa
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TEXT 27
ऋत्विज ऊचः 
  तत्त्वं न ते वयमनञ्जन रुद्रशापात् 
  कर्मप्यवग्रहधियो भगवन्विदामः । 
  धर्मोपलक्षणमिदं त्रिवृद्ध्वराख्यं 
  ज्ञातं यदर्थमधिदैवमदोव्यवस्थाः ॥२७॥
ṛtvija ūcuḥ
tattvam na te vayam anañjana rudra-śāpāt 
  karmaṇy-avagraha-dhiyo bhagavan vidāmaḥ 
  dharmopalakṣaṇam idam trivṛd adhvarākhyam 
  jñātam yad-artham adhidaivam ado vyavasthāḥ
ṛtvijaḥ —the priests;  ūcuḥ —began to say;  tattvam —truth;  na —not;  te —of Your Lordship;  vayam —all of us;  anañjana —without material contamination;  rudra —Lord Śiva;  śāpāt —by his curse;  karmaṇi —in fruitive activities;  avagraha —being too much attached;  dhiyaḥ —of such intelligence;  bhagavan —O Lord;  vidāmaḥ —know;  dharma —religion;  upalakṣaṇam —symbolized;  idam —this;  trivṛt —the three departments of knowledge of the  Vedas ;  adhvara —sacrifice;  ākhyam —of the name;  jñātam —known to us;  yat —that;  artham —for the matter of;  adhidaivam —for worshiping the demigods;  adaḥ —this;  vyavasthāḥ —arrangement.
TRANSLATION
The priests addressed the Lord, saying: O Lord, transcendental to material contamination, by the curse offered by Lord Śiva's men we have become attached to fruitive activities, and thus we are now fallen and therefore do not know anything about You. On the contrary, we are now involved in the injunctions of the three departments of the Vedic knowledge under the plea of executing rituals in the name of yajña. We know that You have made arrangements for distributing the respective shares of the demigods.
PURPORT
The  Vedas  are known as  traiguṇya-viṣayā vedāḥ  (Bg. 2.45). Those who are serious students of the  Vedas  are very much attached to the ritualistic ceremonies mentioned in the  Vedas , and therefore these  Vedavādīs  cannot understand that the ultimate goal of the  Vedas  is to understand Lord Kṛṣṇa