All of you must possess these four important qualities: Peace (Shanti), Truth (Satya), absence of egoism (Nirahankara) and absence of envy (Anasuya). Suffusing all the four is the quality of pure love. These qualities cannot be obtained from the market, through studies, from a teacher or as a gift from someone. You can acquire them only through your own effort. Cultivate and develop these noble qualities from childhood. Out of fear of punishment by parents or teachers, children indulge in falsehood and avoid speaking the complete truth. This tendency in due course results in vitiating their entire life by making them lead double lives. From childhood, children should be taught to speak truth and admit their mistakes. There is nothing wrong in being corrected for misdeeds; these corrections will help them to learn to behave well as adults. Speaking truth, irrespective of any difficulty that may come, must be imprinted firmly and deeply in young minds and hearts which are pure and untainted.

- Divine Discourse, Dec 30, 1983.