Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.