Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.

Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.

Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord or guru is in need of wealth or anything else. Real offering is the act of surrendering the mind and the intellect. How can it be done? We cannot offer our minds as they are, but only the things to which our minds are attached. Today our minds are greatly attached to money and other worldly things. By placing such thoughts at the feet of the Lord, we are offering Him our heart. This is the principle behind giving charities.

Let our lives be firmly rooted in Truth. Abstain from lies. In this dark age of materialism, adherence to truth is the greatest austerity. We might have to tell lies now and then to protect somebody or to sustain dharma, but we must be careful not to speak lies for our own selfish purposes.

Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.

Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.

One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift...and never waste such an opportunity.