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| Ramayana |
| In the face of danger, sharp wits and cunning can rescue a man more than anything else. Only prayers cannot help him as much as a combination of prayers and wit can. All victories are built on this foundation. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Every day hundreds die. Yet the living think, "It will not happen to me." |
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| Upanishads |
| May I be able to listen without distraction. |
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| Hinduism |
| Would a thief threatened with death tell the truth about his misdeeds? |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| They speak of an eternal Asvattha- the ever-changing tree of phenomenal existence - rooted above, and branching below. He who knows it is a man of knowledge. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who fills all beings and dwells in them from the beginning, granting their prayers. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om kamesvara - prema - ratna - mani pratipana - stanyai namah.
Salutations to Her whose breasts form the price she pays to Her Consort ( Mahesvara) in return for the gem of love He bestows on Her. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| May my heart always delight in Siva, the Supreme effulgence, the Master of all, the Lord of the daughter of the mountain (i.e.Parvati), who wears the crescent moon on His crest, and who has a comely throat,dark-blue like a cloud. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
Existence. Om bhavaya namah
He is the Source of all that exists. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| The complete unification of the whole being around the psychic centre is the essential condition to realise a perfect sincerity. |
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