The idea that a posh bungalow, with costly sofas, dining tables, etc., or a heavy pay packet is the ideal to be worked for should be given up. This ideal breeds evil. The ideal should be - hands dedicated to hard work, heads dedicated to service, and hearts filled with compassion. Vivekaananda exhorted students to cultivate compassion. No one should suffer harm or pain through our words or deeds. For, when another is hurt by us, what really happens is we insult and injure our true nature. Attention is now paid solely to the self and its wishes. This must be reversed. Not what we can get from others but what we can give others - that must be our concern.

- Divine Discourse, March 8, 1981.

The heart full of compassion is the temple of God. - Baba