The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today's educational system. That factor is spiritual values.

Meditation increases your vitality and strengthens your intelligence... your mental clarity and health improve. You acquire the patience and fortitude to face any problem in life. So, meditate! Only through meditation will you find the treasure you are seeking.

Deciding to chant the mantra a certain number of times daily will help foster the japa habit. We should always keep a rosary with us for doing japa. A rosary can be made of 108, 54, 27 or 18 beads of rudraksha, tulsi, crystal, sandalwood, gems, etc, with one 'guru bead'. We should resolve to chant a certain number of rosaries (rounds) daily.

A true spiritual seeker should exercise control all the time, throughout the day and night.

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

Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.

Ashrams and gurukulas (spiritual schools) are the pillars of spiritual culture. If we perform sadhana according to the guru's advice, we need not go anywhere else. We will get whatever we need from the guru.