Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

Silence is also conversation.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.