When someone is under the influence of maya, he thinks, “This person is my friend, because he satisfies my lust, and this person is my enemy, because he interferes with my lust.” But it’s lust that is the enemy. It’s not other living entities. It’s because I have lust within my heart and because I am influenced by the external energy that I make one person my friend and another person my enemy.
June 4, 1997, Tiraspol