Notes: Clay is soft and malleable; rocks are hard and unyielding; and gold is versatile, adaptable, precious, and sought after. Abiding at the summit of self-realization, free of the polarizations born of desire and aversion, every material substance is relegated to a plane of utilitarian neutrality. All things ever are just as they are, each with their respective natural and practical functions. Some of them may be supportive and may be engaged when they fall within our natural allotment, yet none of it is required for ascending into the realization of self-integration and unity. Thus the yogi remains equipoised, independent, sovereign, and impervious to the affects of the world of substances.