The robber who has robbed us of the precious gem of Atma is no other than the mind; so, if the robber is caught and threatened and punished, the gem can be regained. The possessor of that gem is immediately honoured by being installed as Brahmam.

The Sadhaka must seek the personages who have attained this Knowledge and learn from them their experience, and honour them for it and share with them their joy. Indeed, such Sadhakas are blessed, for they are on the road to Swarajya, self-rule. This is the mystery of Brahmam, the understanding that there is no other. This is the Atmajnana.

There are four types of Jnanis: Brahmavid, Brahmavidvara, Brahmavid-Vareeyaan and Brahmavidvarishta. These types are differentiated, according to the development of the Sathwic quality in the Jnani. The first, the Brahmavid, has reached the fourth stage called Pathyapaththi. The second, the Brahmavidvara has attained the fifth, the A-samasakthi stage. The third has gained the sixth stage, the Padaartha bhavanaa. The fourth, the Brahmavarishta is in the seventh grade, the Thureeya, the stage of perpetual Samaadhi.

The Brahmavid-varishta is 'liberated' though he is in the body. He has to be forcibly persuaded to partake of food and drink. He will not engage himself in any work relating to the world. He will be unconscious of the body and its demands. But the other three will be aware of it, in varying intensities, and they will engage themselves in worldly work, to the extent appropriate to their spiritual status. Those three have to acquire the destruction of the Manas, the Mind. This itself is of two grades: Swarupanaasa, the destruction of the agitations, and even their shapes and forms; and Arupanaasa, the destruction of the agitations only.

Readers might be troubled by a doubt while on this point. They might ask, who are these who have conquered and wiped out the Mind? Those who have neither attachment nor hatred nor pride nor jelousy nor greed. Those who are free from bondage of the senses, those really are the heroes who have won the battle against the mind. That is the test. Such heroic persons will be free from all agitations.