Pride is an insidious vice; so at the slightest inkling of the disease, try your best to eradicate it by retiring into a lonely spot and engaging yourself in Dhyanam. Delay is dangerous. "Even Amritha, if the dose is delayed, becomes a poison", says the proverb. Remember this, and act swiftly. Dhyanam stills the agitated mind and makes it clear and full of joy. Many in this world, even among the learned, do not spend their allotted span of life in the pursuit of certain selected ideals. Hence, their earthly careers are like the voyage of a storm-tossed ship caught in mid-ocean, which has lost both its anchor and its compass. They are torn between opposing ideals and goals; they listen to diverse appeals; and their lives end in waste and failure, for they say one thing and do another in their ignorance and fear. Dhyanam gives them fixity of purpose and courage, and also wisdom. The feelings that arise in the mind, which are classified as Sathwic, Rajasic, and Thamasic have also to be watched and cleansed. The Rajasic and Thamasic have to be uprooted. Dhyanam is the weapon for this task.

The Dhyanamarga will destroy Ajnana and it will grant the individual Union with the Godhead, or Brahmaikyatha.