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| Ramayana |
| The future King must appreciate and understand the work done by other castes too, even though they may be low. He should not scorn labour because there is dignity in a honest man's sweat. |
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| Mahabharata |
| The wise do not anger at the words of a fool. |
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| Upanishads |
| See Him in all - a fallen leaf, a sick dog, the drunkard and the thief. Then you will know the meaning of love. |
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| Hinduism |
| Collect wood to light the fire of knowledge. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Let our speech be devoted to the narration of Thy excellence, our ears to the hearing of Thy wonderful glory, our hands to the performance of Thy work, our minds to meditation on Thy holy feet, our heads to bowing to the world - Thy adobe - and our eyes to seeing the righteous who are Thy body. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is the basis of volition and whose mark is volition. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om raga - svarupa- pasadhyayai namah.
Salutations to Her who holds in her lower left hand a noose representing the power of love. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| Lord Siva is like unto a dancing peacock. He is blue-throated even as the peacock. He bears the sky as crest, as the peacock its feathery plume. He has the lord of all serpents as his necklace while the peacock, being the deadly enemy of all serpents, has mastery over them. He is decorated with ornaments, as the peacock is with its ornamental tail. He instructs with the sound Om in blessing those who prostrate, while the peacock utters its cry known as the Keka. He dances in joy, seeing the beautiful young daughter of the mountain (i.e, Parvati, His Consort), while the peacock dances at the sight of the black-coloured clouds coming from the hills (sailasamudhbhavam sysmam ghanarucim). I worship that Siva, the blue-throated one, who thus resembles the peacock and delights to sport in the garden of Vedanta. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
All activities are His. Om sarvakarmane namah
Nought in the universe moves without His will. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute:
A new light breaks upon the earth,
A new world is born.
The things that were promised are fulfilled. |
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