Konkani to English:
निधर्मी आवय बापायन वाडयल्ली, ताका लागून "धर्मा कडल्यान अलिप्त," तरीकय जायत्या तरांनी "खंय पळयलिना अशी हांव जाणा जाल्ली अध्यात्मीक नदरेन जागृत मनीस" आनी "धर्मनिरपेक्ष मनीसपणाची एकसुरी साक्षिदार" अशें तो आपले आवयचें वर्णन करता.
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".