Just as the human body will collapse without the spinal column, human life also will sink without morality and spirituality. Your spinal column is made of thirty-three rings, and it supports the entire human body. Similarly, moral and spiritual principles constitute the very rings of the backbone of human life. What is immortality? The removal of immorality is immortality. Human life, which is mortal, is bound to perish one day or the other. Hence we must strive for morality, which is imperishable. This moral splendour is the need of the hour. My earnest wish is that youth should cultivate moral splendour and strive for the welfare and upliftment of the country especially when selfishness and self-interest are so rampant. Students and youth must evince keen interest in the moral and spiritual principles of the Ramayana and fully benefit from it. Elders too should mould their lives in consonance with morality and spirituality.

- Summer Showers 1996, Ch 1.