1. What has happened in the past is over and gone. Now, at the very least, the true Brahmins must make themselves wise.
2. Worship of God should be done with pure hands (purity of character). In that way, good fortune comes to all. The foolish who are not devotees suffer from poverty.
3. First, God must be recognized. Then, becoming one with him, worship him with single-pointed devotion and uninterrupted meditation.
4. The one among all who has the best qualities, is called the best of all. By utilizing the power of discrimination to discern Self from non-self, one comes to know God.
5. The Self is the knower of the body and the inner-witness that sees everything and knowledgeably recognizes all objects.
6. The Self resides in all bodies and functions through the sense organs. The Self is experienced in one's actual experience by all living beings.
7. The inner Universal Self resides in all living beings. Therefore, take care not to hurt the minds of all people. The Self is everything, both the giver and the enjoyer.
8. God abides in the universal mind. It is He that is one's own mind, and that which is seen in all living beings in the three worlds.
9. He is the original "one seer" that is distributed in all the various manifest bodies and distinct and separate forms.
10. He appears to have many separate bodily forms, but he is singularly alone within all. All activities such as talking and walking happen only because of him.
11. It is he alone who is one’s own Self and the Self of all others. He is in all beings including birds, animals, wild beasts, worms, ants. He is in all beings with physical bodies.
12. He is in all living beings that move about in the sky, on the land, in the forests, and in the water. He is life itself, in so many ways. How much can be told about his expansive existence in all the four categories of beings?
13. It is he that is active as the consciousness of all. This can be seen by direct experience. He is always present within us all.
14. Recognize that the Self of the Universe permeates all form. Seeing this, all beings are known to be unified, and one pleases all beings knowing that they are all only oneself.
15. The responsibility rests with oneself to please everyone. Whatever good one does with the body is enjoyed by the Self.
16. God resides even in evil-minded beings. It is only his nature that is revealed as being arrogant and violent. Just as in the case of when the king becomes angry, we never argue with him, in the same way, we should not quarrel with arrogant people.
17. In some situations it is necessary to leave a place. Afterwards, one should reflect on the situation with discerning wisdom. By utilizing such discriminative intellect you will be respected as a saintly person among the people.
18. The differences that appear in the Self are in relation to the body only. It is like how water is always water but tastes different when various herbs or plants are added to it.
19. Poison and nectar both exist, but their basic nature of being water does not change. In the same way, see that the Self is the witness in all.
20. One who is firmly seated in the Self within is special in his inner state. He recognizes the Lord of the Universe in the world.
21. God is in all bodies. He is the eye that sees the eyes, and the mind that liberates the mind.
22. Without him, no activity gets accomplished. Everything happens because of his doing. It is because of him that human beings come to know their unity with him through the power of discrimination.
23. Whatever actions take place in the waking state happen because of connection with him. Whatever happens in the dream is also because of the same connection.
24. The sign of uninterrupted meditation is the sign of uninterrupted remembrance of God. In this knowingness, the explanations about God happen spontaneously.
25. Giving up what is effortless and natural, people make troublesome efforts to focus on some particular thing. Such people stray away from the Self and hold to meditating on what is not the Self.
26. However, when trying to hold on to what is not the Self, it cannot be held onto. Many things appear in the mind and cause unnecessarily trouble, making the mind uneasy and anxious.
27. When one makes effort to meditate upon an image of God, instead of that image, something else is seen. It is surprising how what should not appear, appears in front of the mind's eye.
28. One must analyze and properly decide if meditation should be on God or on the temple of God.
29. The body is the temple, and the Self is God. See where your devotion should be focused. Recognizing God, one’s devotion should be focused there.
30. Meditate with strong inner conviction. The traditional types of meditation are not like this. Meditation without actual experience of the Self is useless and is only meditation on imagination.
31. With meditation on imagination, imagination and speculation only increase. Holding on to imagination only disrupts true meditation. The unfortunate ignorant people cause unnecessary trouble for themselves by meditating on gross objects.
32. When one imagines God to be a physical body, many doubts and wrong ideas about enjoying versus renouncing things, and about how to face difficulties arise because of the association with the body.
33. When such things are focused upon, delusional thinking occurs in the mind, just like many strange things that appear in one's dreams.
34. Whatever is seen by such a person is not understood and cannot be satisfactorily explained. Such an aspirant only becomes inwardly disturbed.
35. When meditation is done correctly, it is clearly evident in one’s own mind. Such meditation does not leave room for any doubt to appear in the mind.
36. Meditation where the mind is only made to concentrate is useless. Such meditation is interrupted because of the restless mind. Who can get anything worthwhile in that kind of meditation?
37. If one is constantly meditating but is not receiving any benefit, understand that that type of meditation is not correct meditation. Consider the meaning of this carefully.
38. Understand that the one meditating and the object of meditation are one. Recognize that they are not two.
39. The state of Oneness is what is natural. The aspirant goes on searching, but does not see this. The Jnani sees correctly and remains content.
40. Like this, with actual experience one remains content. Without experience, people hold to delusional traditions and remain affected by such delusion.
41. Holding on to such traditional approaches to mediation is an error. Common people do not understand the difference between correct and incorrect meditation.
42. Such people merely spread false information and give bad advice. However, if all of this is keenly considered by the mind, one easily recognizes in the end that such ideas are entirely false.
43. If someone is meditating on some image or idol, someone else gives him the advice, "You are putting a crown on that idol. Remove the crown and put a garland of flowers instead. That is better."
44. There is no drought of such ideas in the mind. Soon the garland will be imagined to be too short. Understand that in this case, both the listener and the speaker are fools.
45. The aspirant is not really required to go to any such trouble. One does not need to make a garland of thread and flowers and then imagine that somehow the garland is too short. What is the meaning in all of this nonsense?
46. Such people do not have sharp intellect and are basically dull-minded fools. Who wants to argue with such fools?
47. There are some people who establish some sort of spiritual path and build up a tradition around it. Such a person then gathers followers around him who practice his newly formed tradition and takes great pride in it.
48. Taking pride in spiritual practice without having any actual experience is like keeping sick patients in the dark and slowly killing them. If a practice is based only upon imagination and speculation, how can there ever be any Self-Knowledge?
49. Give up all pride and gain actual experience by utilizing the power of discrimination. The primary premise of the Vedas regarding the false nature of Illusion should be proven with the strength of the power of discrimination.