Mirror

Word mirror

Tasya nasti swayam prajna

Sastram tasya karoti kim?

Locanabhyam vihinasya

Darpanah kim karisyati?

For the person who "is not" alert, intelligent and emotionally mature

What are the use of wise words as the profound teaching instrument, and means of knowledge to know that which is subtler than the subtlest?

For the one who has "NO EYES"

Tell me ! What will he do with a mirror?

One must be emotionally and intellectually mature, to see the helplessness of the intelect and come to know that which is outside of perception and inference.

Seeing this helplessness intimately and thus being able to place trust in the teacher as the means to know that which is self evident but unknown

This is then an enlightened intellect, which is never separate from heart and person.