( Vriddhashrama at Nepal)

Help the poor and the needy, serve the society and lead an ideal life. Only then you will be called a true devotee. I have explained to you many times the qualities of a true devotee. They are: virtues, good intellect, truth, devotion, discipline, duty. Participate in service activities. This morning I am going to Kadugodi to inaugurate a Vriddhashrama (home for the aged). There are many old people in the society who are leading a miserable life, since they have been deserted by their children. Anybody is welcome to this home for the aged. This is started to see that the old people may lead a peaceful life till their last breath. One should be in bliss at the time of death, and not be shedding tears of sorrow. One’s last moments are the foundation for one’s next birth. (SS Apr 99 , p. 89)