Firstly, the students must serve their preceptors with one-pointed devotion and obedience. This is mandatory for Jnana to appear in their being. Secondly, they must undertake hardships, austerities, penance, and long stints of meditation, as advised solely by their preceptor and not through any external means, outside the purview of what they believe is correct. They should meditate deeply on the aphorisms which were pregnant with the seeds of wisdom, as enunciated by their Guru.