Your blood, food, head and money are gifts of your mother and father only. You should therefore offer due respect to them and be ever grateful to them. This is how you should love them. Give due respect to your parents; be grateful to them. But reserve your heart only for God. All worldly relations are transient like water bubbles. When you focus your mind on God, you should lovingly explain this to your mother. Then she will surely understand your mind and heart. The mother always wishes the welfare of her children. She always prays that her children should be good; should attain higher positions in life and receive God’s grace. When her child prostrates, she blesses saying, “Dear! Live for a hundred years; may you live happily with good health, prosperity and reputation!” Even though mother blesses, it is God who grants her prayer saying, Tathastu (so be it)! Without God’s grace, even mother’s prayers and blessings become futile! You may have a good number of bulbs all around you, but they are useless in the absence of the current. And there is no use of the current when there are no bulbs. Similarly, both mother’s blessings and God’s grace are what you should attain. – Divine Discourse, May 6, 1997