Embodiments of love! Through the power of speech you can conquer kingdoms. Through speech you can also lose all your wealth. People acquire kinsmen and friends through speech and lose them too by their words. Through words again, you can even lose your life. Words are the root cause of all these circumstances. Remember, speech is your important armour whether you experience loss or gain, prosperity or adversity, pain or pleasure. You are bestowed with many gifts. Your life is extremely precious. Time is highly valuable. Your heart is very tender. Your mind is a great possession. Endowed with all these valuable things, why do you conduct yourself as a mean, ignorant and miserable being? Don’t forget your divine nature, by immersing yourself in worldly pleasures and in mundane desires. Don’t harden your heart, which is soft and compassionate by nature, into a stone. Humanness should spontaneously manifest itself from within your heart and overflow with compassion.

- Divine Discourse, March 31,1996.