The great ṛṣis of those days, noble souls, practised great tapas, renounced all attachment and wore away even their bodies; they laid down the welfare of the world, and certain rules suited to it that can be practised, and handed them on to us. Today people do not live out even what was handed on; they invent all manner of meanings for it, and each brings in new methods to suit himself, so that the real truth has sunk to the bottom. And when, instead of trying to bring that sacred truth back up, those in the world today who are called elders and gurus accept only the new methods and nourish only them, what is there to say?