1. Our body being illusory and transitory, it is useless to give over-much attention to it.

2. Seeing that when we die we must depart empty- handed and on the morrow after our death our corpse is expelled from our own house, it is useless to labour and to suffer privations in order to make for oneself a home in this world.

3. Seeing that when we die our descendants [if spiritually unenlightened] are unable to render us the least assistance, it is useless for us to bequeath to them wordly [ rather than sppiritual] riches, even out of love(2).

1. To have but little pride and envy is the sign of a superior man.

2. To have but few desires and satisfaction with simple things is the sign of a superior man.

3. To be lacking in hypocrisy and deceit is the sign of a superior man.

4. To regulate one’ s conduct in accordance with the law of cause and effect as carefully as one guardeth the pupils of one’s eyes is the sign of a superior man.

5. To be faithful to one’s engagements and obligation is the sign of a superior man.

1. It is indispensable to have an intellect endowed with the power of comprehending and applying the Doctrine to one’s own needs.

2. At the very beginning [of one’s religious career] it is indispensably necessary to have the most profound aversion for the interminable sequence of repeated deaths and births. 

3. A Guru capable of guiding thee on the Path of Emancipation is also indispensable.

4. Diligence combined with fortitude and invulnerability to temtation are indispensable.

1. A religious devotee showth weakness if he allow his mind to be obsessed with wordly thoughts while dwelling in solitude.

2. A religious devotee who is the head of a monastery showeth weakness if he seek his own interests [rather than those of the btotherhood].

3. A religious devotee showeth weakness if he be careful in the observance of moral discipline and lacking in moral restraint.

4. It showeth weakness in one who hath entered upon the Righteous Path to cling to wordly feelings of attraction and repulsion.

5. It showeth weakness in one who hath renounced worldliness and entered the Holy Order to hanker after acquiring merit.