1. Oh, you men and women who are living a worldly life, please listen in an impartial manner with a clear and focused mind and see the inner meaning of what is being explained.
2. What does your desire say? What does your imagination conceive? Many ripples of various kinds arise in many ways within the mind.
3. Desire is such that one should eat only good food, have fine meals, have good clothing to wear, and that everything should be in accordance with one's liking.
4. The mind is constantly thinking like this, and yet, nothing happens according to its liking. One always wants something good to happen, and suddenly something bad happens.
5. Some people are happy, and some are miserable. This is the direct experience of what can be seen happening everywhere in the world. In the end, when suffering comes, people put the label of destiny on it.
6. Because one does not make the proper effort, whatever is done does not bring successful return, and meanwhile, one does not recognize one’s own faults.
7. How can one who does not know oneself know others? Giving up the sense of justice and morality, people become pitiable.
8. People do not understand the minds of others and do not behave according to what other people want, and because of foolishness many disputes arise among people.
9. When quarreling increases, people become more troubled by each other. Without making any proper effort everything merely becomes tiring in the end.
10. Don't act like this. Observe many people, and understand people as they are, in an appropriate manner.
11. Examine the words used by another, and examine and verify the inner experience of others. How can one who is of dull intellect and who is without insight be able to know the mind-set of others?
12. What is mainly seen among worldly people are the signs of criticizing others with words and defending one’s own views.
13. To be considered praiseworthy by the people one must bear a lot of sufferings imposed by others. If you do not bear them, the mind naturally becomes irritated.
14. Wherever is not agreeable to oneself, do not stay there. However, you should not leave broken relationships remaining behind.
15. All people small and large respect one who speaks truthfully and behaves accordingly. Such a one naturally sees and knows justice and injustice.
16. As the common people cannot understand, the thoughtful ones must pardon them. One who does not pardon them, becomes like them.
17. Until the sandalwood is rubbed its fragrance cannot be known, and any similar looking tree might be mistaken for a sandalwood tree.
18. As long as your best qualities are not revealed and understood by people, how can they understand you? When seeing your best qualities people are pleased in their minds.
19. When people feel inwardly pleased, there is love and friendship for you among the people, and the people of the world will be drawn towards you.
20. When you make God in the form of the people pleased, there is nothing felt to be lacking in oneself. However, it is difficult to please everyone.
21. Whatever is sown grows accordingly. Whatever is borrowed, one must return. If we expose someone's secrets, it hurts that person’s mind.
22. Good actions that are done in one's worldly affairs increase the love of the people. One's approach toward others is reflected in the response one that receives.
23. All of this resides within oneself, so we cannot blame other people. One must teach their own mind, from moment to moment.
24. If one meets with a cruel and hurtful person, and the patience to pardon him sinks too low, then the aspirant should leave that place quietly without speaking.
25. People know how to evaluate many things but they don’t know how to gauge the inner experience of the mind of others. Beings that don't understand this become unfortunate, there is no doubt about it.
26. Knowing that death will come to you, remember to behave benevolently towards others. It is very difficult to always show kindness and proper discrimination.
27. Consider all as equal, whether they are great or small, or considered as one's own. Showing increasing closeness and affection towards others is helpful in life.
28. When doing good things for others, good things happen for you. This is actually experienced by people. Now, what more should I tell, and to whom?
29. Listen to discourses and explanations about God. Conduct political activities with appropriate benevolence. Without seeing situations clearly, all goes in vain.
30. Even if one has gained great knowledge, if one does not know how to act appropriately according to the situation, there is a lack of respect for that knowledge.