“When you will sit close to the sadhu, in his company you will be surcharged by that spiritual atmosphere. And if you talk to him, it will improve. And thereby you will develop physically, mentally and spiritually. However you may not realize it immediately. This association will work like drops of water. One drop after the other makes the ocean. These oceans, the Pacific, the Atlantic, that we see are composed by drops. Many drops combined will make water; so much water will make a well; hundreds wells combined will make one tank; hundreds tanks combined will make one river; hundreds rivers combined will make one lake; several lakes combined will make one small sea. Like that. And so many seas combined will make one ocean. How it was prepared? Only by drops.”

— Śrīla Bhakti Vaibhāva Purī Mahārāja