No one is prepared to make the effort for spiritual victory. If you demand the job of a District Collector to be given to you straightaway, how can it be done? There are certain qualifications required - scholarship, efficiency, talent, experience, etc. The flower must become the fruit, the fruit must ripen and the ripeness expresses itself as sweetness. So everything takes its own time! Hence from today, resolve to engage only in virtuous deeds, good thoughts and good company. Do not waste a single moment in idle gossip or vain boasting or demeaning recreations. Do only good things, speak soft and sweet, never injure or insult another, serve those in need and keep the image of God always before your mind's eye. Implant God firmly in your heart. Then, you will see God everywhere, even in the objective world! For, everything in this Universe is truly Divine (Sarvam Brahmamayam)!

- Divine Discourse, Jan 14, 1964.