Wear the invisible badge of a volunteer of God at all hours and in all places. Let all the days of living be a continuous offering of Love, as an oil lamp exhausts itself in illumining the surroundings. Bend the body, mend the senses, and end the mind - that is the process of attaining the status of 'the children of immortality,' which the Upanishads have reserved for man. God is the embodiment of sweetness. Attain Him by offering unto Him, who resides in all, the sweetness that He has showered on you. Crush the cane in the mill of Seva, boil it in the cauldron of penitence; de-colorise it of all sensual itch; offer the crystallised sugar of compassionate love to Him. Man is the noblest of all animals, the final product of untold ages of progressive evolution; but, he is not consciously striving to live up to his heritage!

- Divine Discourse, Jun 26, 1969.