“Brother-in-law! The influences of the pairs of opposites, pleasure and pain, victory and defeat, gain and loss, wield no authority whatever over jñānis. Such a one is also called ‘dvandvātīta’. He regards ‘jealousies’ as contemptible and does not let them come near him. And the svarūpa and svabhāva of the Ātma? It is ‘asaṅga’. The Ātma can have no fellowship at all with anātma things. The Ātma knows neither death and birth, nor hunger and thirst, nor grief and moha. Hunger and thirst belong to the prāṇa. (Death and birth: these are properties of the body. The second pair, hunger and thirst: properties of the prāṇa. The third pair, grief and moha: properties of the Manas. These are the “ṣaḍ-ūrmis”.) So, brother-in-law, give these no place of any kind; think of yourself solely as ‘Ātma-svarūpa’, cast off delusions, and become asaṅga. There is no loveliness beyond this. Brother-in-law! In saṃsāra you must move like a lotus leaf. Do not take saṃsāra's dirt into your heart. Though you are in saṃsāra, you must move without taking saṃsāra into yourself. That is the mark of one who is asaṅga. You must learn, like the lotus leaf, not to take in water. But do not be like blotting paper, soaking up everything that comes its way and taking in every hen-scratch and crane-scrawl that touches it as if it were print. With the streams of water that are the ‘citta-vṛttis’ you must perform the abhiṣeka of the Ātma-liṅga.”