To accept responsibility for conditioned souls and helping to elevate their consciousness means that one has to be willing to voluntarily accept suffering. I have already accepted that weight of responsibility. I am not thinking that I am going to be able to avoid suffering, but I am suffering when I see my disciples suffering. That's what causes my suffering, when I see that my disciples are not strictly following and they have deviated. I know that they are going suffer so much. It is painful.
July 26, 1997, Kharkov Darshan