Marathi to English:
अधार्मिक पालकांनी वाढवलेल्या आपल्या आईचे वर्णन त्याने "धर्मापासून विलग", तरीदेखील अनेक प्रकारे, "मला माहिती असलेल्या व्यक्तींमध्ये आध्यात्मिकदृष्ट्या सर्वात प्रबुद्ध व्यक्ती" आणि "निधर्मी मानवतावादाकरता एकाकी साक्षीदार" असे केले.
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".