Part 1 - The instruction to practice at this favorable time of having the guru and oral instructions

At this auspicious time of completely attaining the completely free and well-favored human body, here is the instruction that we should liberate ourselves from cyclic existence:

If, having attained the ship of being free and well-favored,
Whose rudder is the oral instructions of the guru,
We do not strive to cross the river of suffering,
We can only stare fascinated until we fall into it.

For this reason, if we think we do not need to work with the ship of freedom and favor, the holy guru’s way of Dharma, the tradition of the great path to liberation established by the Buddha Bhagavat, we are much deceived. The Letter to a Student says:

Those who receive the sages’ life-granting Dharma path
And having receiving what is like a great ship, then throw it away,
Whirling like dancers amidst the ocean of samsara,
They think the deceptive thought that their joy has been assured.