Readers must look at this matter with their eyes wide open. In these present times the whole world is filled with nothing but ostentation. Whatever field you look at, whatever person you look at, he behaves with ostentation. He has handed the whole ruling of his kingdom into the hands of the minister named ostentation. Even one who knows nothing pretends to know everything. Though at home there is no one in charge even to pour a little gruel into his mouth, outside he boasts as though he had servants of every kind. However incompetent he may be, he hopes that society will think him capable of everything. Why speak of one thing only? In everything, ostentation is the first step. It brings man to utter ruin. Nor does it stop there: it creeps over the world like a blight-worm. Put an end to it, and the world's affliction will leave. So those who give ostentation any room will fall from both. This is not right even for an ordinary man. As for those who wish to become sādhakas and to attain sākṣātkāra, if they so much as think of it, they will fall.