"The sixth is Aacharyopasana: the reverential service rendered to the spiritual teacher. This will promote affection for the pupil and so he will benefit a great deal. But the Guru who has no goal will only mislead the disciple into perdition. The Guru must shower grace on the disciple as freely and as spontaneously as the mother cow feeds the young calf with milk. The teaching of the Guru is the source and sustenance for attaining God and acquiring liberation."

"The seventh virtue is Soucham, or cleanliness - not merely outer cleanliness but inner cleanliness. And what is inner cleanliness? The absence of affection and hatred, of desire and discontent, lust and anger; and the presence of Daivi (good i.e., godly) qualities. Water cleans the body, truth cleans the mind; knowledge cleans the reasoning faculty; the individual is cleaned by penance and discipline."

"The eighth virtue is called Sthairyam: steadfastness, fixity of faith, the absence of fickleness or waywardness. The Sadhaka must hold fast to what he has once fixed his faith upon as conducive to his spiritual progress. He should not flit from one ideal to another, changing the goal from day to day. This is also referred to as Deeksha. Fickleness is the product of weakness, a weakness that has to be scrupulously avoided."

"The ninth in the list is Indriyanigraha: the control of the senses. Be convinced that the senses have to subserve your best interests, not that you should subserve the interests of the senses. Do not be the slave of the senses; rather make them your slaves."

"Next, the tenth virtue, Vairagyam: detachment, renunciation, loss of appetite for sound, touch, form, taste, smell etc. The senses run after these, for they titillate them and give them temporary joy. But the senses are not interested in Dharma-artha-kama-moksha of the sublime type. The Atma can be discovered only through the pursuit of the sublime."

"The eleventh virtue is Anahamkara, absence of egoism. Egoism is the breeding ground of all vices and faults. The egocentric individual pays no regard to right and wrong, good and bad, godly or wicked; he does not care for them, nor does he know about them. He is completely ignorant of Dharma and morals. He will not conform to justice. To be devoid of this poisonous quality is to be endowed with Anahamkaram. Egoism is a foe in the guise of a friend."

"The next virtue is called Janma-mrthyu-jaraa-vyaadhi-dukha-doshaanudarsanam, which means only this: the awareness of the inevitable cycle of birth and death, of senility and disease, of grief and evil and other signs of the temporariness of this created world, and life in it. Though people see these things happening to them as well as others, they do not investigate the reasons for these and the methods of escaping from them. That is the greatest mystery, the wonder."