“People are taught to compare and compete, so that ignorance and greed escalate endlessly, reducing individuals to mere consuming machines.”

“Behaving as your natural self is simplicity and pretending to be something else is artificiality – a manifestation of modernity.”

“When a (modern) human being attempts to get over the suffering, he starts considering physical inconveniences as the main cause of suffering. In modern society people mostly do not realise that lack of mental peace and equanimity could also be the source or cause of suffering.”

“In tradition, the emphasis is on duty and not on right. In today’s world the priorities have reversed. Everybody talks about rights, not duties.”