What I believe, according to my own experience, is that a calm, peaceful mind is a very important element for sustaining the body in a balanced way.

The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.

My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.