Most men spend the lifetime allotted to them or earned by them in partaking of rich and harmful food and drink, and also indulge in glamorous, more harmful pastimes. What a pathetic waste of precious opportunity! Though belonging to the animal kingdom, man has much more than his fellow beings in physical, mental and moral equipment. He has memory, language, conscience, reverence, awe, wonder and an inexplicable sense of discontent, a precursor of detachment. He has a glorious chance of visualising his identity with the Mystery that’s manifested as this Universe, but he is so sunk in ignorance that he behaves as an animal like the rest and wallows in grief and vice! It’s as if the fire has forgotten its capacity to burn or water its nature to wet! Similarly man has forgotten his nature to reach out to Godhood, his capacity to seek and secure Truth of the Universe of which he is a part, his capacity to train himself by virtue, justice, love and empathy to escape from the particular to the Universal.( Divine Discourse, Jul 02,1966)