You may communicate to such a person your most secret counsels and the true state of never all your affairs, spiritual or temporal. You may trust him as you may your own father.
स ते विद्यात् परं मन्त्रं प्रकृतिं चार्थधर्मयोः। विश्वासस्ते भवेत् तत्र यथा पितरि वै तथा॥