Wait, wait! Listen, listen! Do not leave this text in a hurry. Whatever is told, listen carefully.

Among all listening, the quintessence of listening lies in the explanation of the knowledge of Self. By becoming attuned with your innermost mind, look at what is contained in this text.

By listening and reflecting with deep thought of self, persistent study will bring about immediate realization and liberation. That which is not immediate, will not be spoken about.

While evaluating or weighing many gems and while putting high quality gold in a mould, one has to be very alert.

Upon taking many coins, count and examine them. Using discrimination, speak with people, carefully and alertly.

When a hundred thousand pieces of grain is selected and cleaned it becomes worthy for offering. Otherwise it is improper and not cleaned, and is considered unacceptable to God, and He will not be pleased.

While making an important transaction alone in secrecy one has to be very attentive and alert. Compared to these matters, millions of times more thought should be given to the spiritual texts containing the knowledge of the Self.

There are many parables, episodes, stories, ballads and many important biographies of incarnations of God. But among all of these, the deepest is the knowledge of the Self.

On hearing the stories of the past it is said that one acquires merit or piousness, but that cannot be seen.

The essence of the Self knowledge is not like that. When the thought of Self experience is understood, imagination gets destroyed.

Many great persons have come and gone who have worked and lived only for the Self. Who is it that can speak of the greatness of the Self?

Age after age, alone, that One runs thru all the three worlds. The discrimination of that Self must be definitely seen.

Many beings have come and gone. The way in which they behaved, that can be described as one desires.

Where the Self is not revealed, there everything becomes useless. Without the Self, like a helpless piece of wood, what is that consciousness?

There is no other knowledge like supreme self-knowledge in this world. The saintly persons alone understand this through discrimination.

The earth, water and light elements are rightly included in the earth element. The inner Self is the seed principle that remains entirely different.

One who can with discrimination go beyond the air element, can discover the Self very near.

The air, the sky, the illusion of the gunas, the seed principles of the creator and creation, and the primordial illusion, Moola-maya, are very subtle in form. To get the experience and to know them is very difficult.

In this commotion of the goddess maya, illusion, one who apply his mind in the subtle form, can become realized, and put an end to a doubting disposition.

The primordial illusion, Moola-maya, is the fourth body. One must become disembodied. The One who goes beyond the body consciousness and remains there, is truly blessed. He is the accomplished One.

Those who by deep thought elevate themselves, they alone get lifted into the spiritual world. All others, because of the knowledge of the material objects have their downfall.

Objects look attractive, but in no time, they get destroyed and lost. People themselves become lost in this world as well as the spiritual world because of this.

For this reason give up the knowledge of the material world, and imagination of many objects and go in search of the flawless Reality.

Greater than the knowledge of Yoga is the knowledge of the subtle. But greater than that is the knowledge of the Self, which must be studied.

At the end of the root of the primordial illusion, there arises resolution of God. With the help of worship, one must hold there and embrace.

Then beyond that, know the spotless Brahman, which is attributless, pure, and changeless. Its sign is like the sky.

From here till the end, penetrating all the beings; adhering to all the objects, it is there occupying everything.

Nothing is superior like it. It is more subtle than the subtlest. With the annihilation of the thoughts of the subtle and gross, one comes to understand.

Or even if the subtle and gross are still existent in thought, with discerning discrimination, if we go to see that which is the permanent principle, we begin to understand.

Doing all of this analysis about the supreme principle, and then making careful decision about the eternal and ephemeral, one can leave the text with pleasure.

Thus in dasabodh, the guru disciple dialogue the sub-chapter named 'Explanation on listening' ends.

Jai Jai Raguveer Samartha