Few people care to enquire into the nature of the inner yajna (sacrifice). The inner meaning of yajna is to recognize one's inherent Divinity and offer all of one's bad qualities as a sacrificial offering at the sacred site of one's mind. Yajnas have been prescribed for the purpose of enabling people to make a sacrifice of all their bad thoughts and actions. Fickleness, hatred, stealing and foolish stubbornness are not natural traits for man. The presence of these traits in man must be attributed to the legacy from previous births. The sacrifice which everyone has to make is the giving up of all bad qualities in him.

- Divine Discourse, October 6, 1989.