But if we are to see them, some inquiry is needed. Without examination they cannot be seen. We do know the thread we find by looking closely into the garland, and the foundations we find by digging into the earth; but in the upper storeys that are seen, and upon the garland that has been strung, the foundations and the thread are not seen. So, readers! If we take what is visible, what is supported, as the thing that matters, stop there, and do not set our intellect to examination, we will never know the truth at all. What is seen has an unseen support; to know this, carrying on inquiry is the right path. Those who bring this into their own experience need no explaining in many ways. This is what matters: not the worth or unworth of the jīvas, who are the beads. The ‘thread’ that supports this is Brahman; that alone is what matters to us. Even flowers that do nothing for the garland's beauty can be strung into it. That is to say, though the jīvas exist with their distinctions, tāmasika, rājasika and sāttvika, Paramātma does not heed these; He pervades all at a level beyond them, true, eternal and pure. The thread is the prop of the garland. Without the thread, flowers cannot become a garland. Likewise, there is no way to separate the jīvas so that they are without Brahman; it is not possible.