"This time, by great fortune, we have attained human birth. Supremely merciful Bhagavān has seen our suffering and given us this one happy chance. Therefore, this time, with our mind not in any other direction, we must give all our mind and soul to bhagavat-anuśīlana. No other kathā except for Bhagavān’s guṇa-kīrtana, no other activity except for Bhagavān’s service—striving to please Bhagavān in every way, offering Him what is His, like worshipping the Ganges with Ganges water, we will have to offer our souls unto Him."

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—Śrīmatī Umā Dīdī, writing in 1971