- As long as a person’s mother is alive, she has to be looked after. I used to worship my mother with flowers and sandal paste. It is the Mother of the Universe who has come down in the form of your mother.
- As long as you take care of your own body, you must look after your mother. So I say to Hazra, ‘When you have a cough, you make a mixture of sugar candy and pepper, and you have to get the pepper and also salt for taste.’ As long as you do this for yourself, you have also to take care of your mother.
- If a father has a good son, it’s a mark of his father’s spiritual nature. If water in a pond is clean, it’s a sign of the virtue of its owner.
- A son is said to be born of one’s self (atmaja). There is no difference between you and your son. You have become your son in another way.
- A man owes many debts. Debt to the father, debt to the gods, and debt to the rishis. And there is debt to the mother too. Furthermore, there is debt to the wife. She has to be taken care of. If she’s a faithful wife, a person even has to arrange for her maintenance after death.