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| Ramayana |
| A King is the patron of arts and culture in his kingdom. He should be able to appreciate the beauty of poetry, music, literature and dance. The King has to develop all these qualities from childhood. |
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| Mahabharata |
| When the lion does not behave like one, even a fox may think of overcoming him. |
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| Upanishads |
| The spirit buries itself in the Supreme as the arrow in the target. |
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| Hinduism |
| Words that can describe him do not exist. Believe in him and be happy. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| The divine Being who dwells in the moving and the non-moving, but is Himself immutable; who is the light of knowledge and the dispeller of blinding darkness, - Him, the dweller in the heart of all beings, I behold. Him, the supreme Self, I salute. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who paced the three worlds and whose vehicle is the bird Garuda. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om kurma - prstha - jayisnu - prapad anvitayai namah.
Salutations to Her the arch of whose feet rivals the shapeliness and beauty of the back of a tortoise. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| O Lord! Thou beloved of Gauri! Deign to accept this - the maiden of my poesy - adorned with the ornaments of various figures of speech, charming by the gait of beautiful diction, possessing the virtuous conduct of excellent metres, having 'the bright complexion of sweet sounds, praised by the world of good men constituted of hly sages, endowed with the amorous sentiment of devotion together with the virtue of loftiness,planned with the suitor of Brahman as the objective, invested with the most auapicious marks of high literary qualities, endowed with numerous brilliant decorations of the literary art, revealing the modesty of poetic humility, bearing the 'wealth-line' of clear meanings, and possessing the virtue of working for the good of the readers. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
| The Lord of all existence. Om Sarva loka praja pataye namah |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| The constant presence of the Mother comes by practice; the Divine Grace is essential for success in the Sadhana, but it is the practice that prepares the descent of the Grace. |
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