It should not be delivered to one who is not conversant with the Vedas, or one who do not humbly wait upon his preceptor, or one who is not shorn of malice, or one who is not possessed of sincerity and candour, or one who is of reckless conduct.
नोदविदुषे वाच्यं तथा नानुगताय च। नासूयकाजानृजवे न चानिर्दिष्टकारिणे॥