Tripura Rahasya

Hemalekha said,

• Dearest, listen to me attentively. What is knows as the mind is, after all, always like a restless monkey. So the ordinary man is always afflicted with troubles. Everybody knows that a restless mind is the channel of endless troubles; whereas one is happy in sleep in the absence of such restlessness. Therefore keep your mind steady when you listen to what I say. Hearing with a distracted mind is as good as not hearing, for the words serve no useful purpose, resembling the fruit-laden tree seen in a painting.
• Man is benefited if he turns away from dry, ruinous logic and engages in purposeful discussion.
• Appropriate effort must follow right discussion; for a man profits according to the zeal accompanying his efforts.
• Guided by proper deliberation, accompanied by zeal and engaged in individual efforts, one must make one's own unfailing way to emancipation.
• There are said to be many ways to that end. Choose that one among them which is the surest.
• Choice is made by right discussion and according to the experience of the wise. Then begin the practice immediately. 
• That is best which does not again yoke you to suffering. To a discriminating man, pain is apparent in all aspects of life.
• Whatever has the impress of misery on it cannot be good. Such are wealth, children, wife, kingdom, treasury, army, fame, learning, intellect, body, beauty and prosperity. For they are all transient and already in the jaws of death, otherwise called time.
• Can that be good which is only the seed ready to sprout as pain and grow into misery?