A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How important it is to be an instrument to bring out the inherent good of each other rather than the worst.

My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.

Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.

To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life.

To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

Speak the essence and live by it.