This knowledge should not be given to one who has no faith or to one who is an atheist, or to one who has fallen away from the duties of his caste, or to one who is shorn of mercy, or to one who is given to the science of empty disputations, or to one who is hostile to his preceptors, or to one who thinks all creatures to be different from oneself.
नाश्रद्दधानाय न नास्तिकाय न नष्टधर्माय न निघृणाय। न हेतुदुष्टाय गुरुद्विषे वा नानात्मभूताय निवेद्यमेतत्॥