Nepali to English:
उनले आफ्नो आमा, "धर्मदेखि पृथक" रूपमा गैर धार्मिक अभिभावकहरूले हुर्काएको भए पनि, धेरै प्रकारले "मैले जानेकाहरू मध्ये आत्मिक रूपमा जाग्रत व्यक्ति" अनि "धर्मनिरपेक्ष मानवतावादको एक्लो साक्षी" जस्ता थिए भनेर वर्णन गरे।
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".