Conclusion by the Author;

After giving serious thought to all this, please do whatever you like. I am not a teacher who has the truth to impart, nor do I believe that there is a particular teacher who revealed the truth and that my business is to infuse into your minds his teaching. I am only here to tell you from a critical scholarly point of view what the various religious texts books and teachers have said.

Lastly, it is easy enough to say, 'Search for yourself; whatever you find in the end will  be quite all right.' But this does not seem to be of much use in practice. That is why everybody who has been a religious preacher or teacher has always added something more. For example: Follow,devote yourselves to one who is wise, who is able to lead, who is dutiful, who is noble, who is very learned and who is above all a good and disciplined man.

This is from Dhammapada, Sukhavagga,12

But then the question arises; Where am I or you to find such a man? That is your business and mine.