Bodo to English:
धोरोम मानियै बिमा-बिफाजों गिदिर-गोलाव जानाय बिनि बिमाखौ "धोरोमनिफ्राय जानगाराव" होनना बर्नायदोंमोन, गोबां बिथिंनिफ्राय "आं मिथिनाय बयनिख्रुइ आध्यात्मिक नोजोराव जौगानाय सुबुं" आरो "धोरोम बासियाजासे सुबुंथिनि हार्सिंल' साखि।"
He described his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as being "detached from religion", yet in many ways the most "spiritually awakened person I have ever known", and as a "lonely witness for secular humanism".