Like food to a starving man, like showers on a parched field, the Vedic science of spiritual self-discovery is life-giving succour for a society that is sliding down to destruction having lost its hold on truth, morality, peace and love. You are the instruments in the spread of Vedic truth among the farthest corners of this vast land; you are the chosen ones! You have to show by precept and by example that the path of self-realization is the path to perfect joy. On you lies a great responsibility; the responsibility of demonstrating by your calmness, composure, humility, purity, virtue, courage and conviction under all circumstances, that the Sadhana (spiritual practices) you follow has made you a better, happier and more useful person. Practise and demonstrate, do not simply assert in words and deny in deeds.

- Divine Discourse, April 20, 1967.

The body should be regarded primarily as an instrument for the realisation
of the Divine through the nine forms of devotion. – Baba