Nothing can confer as much aananda (bliss) as virtue, neither wealth, nor material power, nor fame, nor scholarship. The highest virtue is humility, surrender to God. People speak of those who have no one to look after them as 'orphans' (anatha), but God looks after everyone. So no one can be an orphan. God alone is the orphan (anatha also means ‘one without a master’), for who can claim that he is God's guardian? Dedicate your thought, word and deed to God. Do not treat some of your activities as done for God and others as done for yourself. They are both like the two halves of a pulse grain. The plant sprouts from the middle of the grain, drawing sustenance equally from both halves. The alert and the inert, the living and the non-living, the moving and the non-moving are all God. Strengthen this faith and live in this faith. This is the prescription for perpetual Brahmananda (supreme bliss)!

- Divine Discourse, Nov 23, 1983.