Dogri to English:
उʼन्नै अपनी माता गी गैर-धार्मिक माता-पिता द्वारा "धर्म थमां निर्लिप्त" दे रूप च पाले जाने बारै दस्सेआ , फ्ही बी जिन्ने लोकें गी में जाननां उं'दे च ओह् केइयें अर्थें च "अध्यातमिक रूप कन्नै सभनें शा मतिया जागृत" , ते "धर्मनिरपक्ख मनुक्खतावाद आस्तै इक्कली गोआह्-साखी" न।
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".