In this modern age, the idea of joining a satsanga (good company) is being looked down upon as if it is something mean and crazy. On the other hand, we do not see anything wrong in spending a considerable amount of time dressing our own hair or doing similar things...If our face needs a little touching up, we look after it immediately. We pay undue attention to our body, but we do not restrain our mind from following the crooked ways. It is our internal instruments which have to be set right so as to enable us to pursue the sacred path. In order to remove the entanglements that distort the right vision, you should cultivate devotion, love and wisdom.

- Summer Course, 1973.

It is only purity that attracts Divinity. If the iron filings are rusted,
even the most powerful magnet will not attract them. - Baba