Unimportance of the external characters: (Paramhamsopanisad)
The true identity of a person who has merged with the absolute is none The external relationships like relatives, family, wealth education or fame are of no importance The coiled up hair or the sacred thread worn across the chest are also nothing A person who has merged with the absolute has no time, pleasures, food, posession or place He has a piece of cloth around his waist, a stick to lean and a bowl to beg Even these are not necessary for him His identity is in his complete merging with the absolute truth He is the person with godliness
meaning: The absolute knowledge does not require the physical principles and it is independent of them-hence it is called metaphysics. The person who pursues metaphysics should know to delineate the matter and non-matter. The physical principles are non-matter and the absolute is the matter. Physical principles are theory laden and will not take one to know the metaphysical truth. gandhi