Food should be consumed while chanting your mantra inwardly. This will purify the food and the mind at the same time.

Pray to God: It's all right if you don't love me, but please let me love you!

If we approach Nature with , it will serve us as our best friend, a friend that won't let us down.

There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out of flowers picked from our home garden. When we plant the flowers, water them, pick the flowers, make the garland and take it to the temple, thoughts of God alone live in our minds. The Lord accepts anything offered to Him with intense Love. When we buy a garland at a store and place it on the deity it is only a ceremonial act while the other is a garland of pure devotion and an act of love.

Make use of radio, TV and films discriminatively; only for programs that will enhance our knowledge and culture. Television is tele-visham (tele-poison, in Malayalam). If we are not careful, it can corrupt our culture, damage our eyes and drain away our time.

Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.