As the sight, so the heart becomes. As the heart, so the intentions arise. As the intentions, so the speech he experiences. As the speech, so the life he gains. So, if he wants to live a good life, man must first of all have a sacred, divine, noble vision. By looking at sights that are impure, loathsome and dreadful, man lives merely like a beast. Man must see sacred sights. Man must first inquire: what is sacred, what is divine, what is worth seeing? Whatever sights man sees, all those sights are painted on his heart. Man does not try to recognise this secret. Man today lives his life in many sorrows, in grief, in hardship and in unrest. What is the reason? Because the sights he has seen were so impure, so loathsome, so dreadful, such fruits arise from his heart. So in human life vision comes first of all. As the vision, so the creation. So all our śāstra knowledge rests on the eyes. The eye is the śāstra; vision is creation. If you want śāstra knowledge, make your vision pure. First of all, man must make his vision pure. Do not try to look at what is not fit to be seen. Wait, inquire with a pure mind into what is good, and try to look at that alone. Such a sacred vision is what is created in man's heart. Then there is no room for bad feelings, bad intentions or bad words to arise in man. So first of all keep your vision pure. This is the first teaching the Buddha gave. Wanting to gain the Śānti of the Ātma and Ānanda, he roamed the whole world. Until his body was twenty-five years old he struggled in many ways for this knowledge of the Ātma. It is not a Jñāna that comes from scholars.