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| Ramayana |
| Marriages of Kings are not made for love alone. Nor are they made because a couple is well matched. Such marriages are generally made after much deliberation because they will create political alliances which are necessary in times of distress. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Great kings are temperate by nature. |
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| Upanishads |
| Why do you waste your time searching for Him in temples while he sleeps in your heart? |
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| Hinduism |
| Inherent in a tiny seed is the great banyan tree. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| I bow to Thee, O Thou blissful Self. I bow to Thee, O secrets. Thou art beyond all thought and limitation. Thou art without beginning and without end. I bow to Thee. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him in whom the world exists as the seed. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om Sri - maha - rajnyai namah.
Salutations to the great Empress of the whole Universe. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| I worship Nilakantha, the blue-throated Siva, the peacock (also blue-throated) that excels by His beautiful dance, having the time of dusk as the close of summer (i.e, the beginning of rainy season when peacocks dance), the sound of drum beaten by Visnu's hand as thunder peals, the eyes of the celestials as lightning, the blissful tears of devotees as rain, and the Divine Mother Parvati as the peahen. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
Attained through Niyama. Om niyamasritaya namah
The means and the goal are the same. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| The Mother's presence is always there; but if you decide to act on your own - your own idea, your own notion of things, your own will and demand upon things, then it is quite likely that her presence will get veiled... |
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