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| Ramayana |
| The greed for power can debase a person who otherwise has many noble qualities. It is like a cancer which grows away at the heart of sound qualities and makes them hollow. Guarding against this greed is a difficult task. |
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| Mahabharata |
| The mind is seldom satiated with desires. |
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| Upanishads |
| Within that lies the quicksilver world of the mind. |
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| Hinduism |
| Why do you pour fuel onto ashes instead of blazing fire? |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| May He, the creator and supporter of the gods, the lord of all, the destroyer of evil, the great seer, He who brought the cosmic Soul into being, endow us with good thoughts. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to the generator of all races of men. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om kamesvar astra - nirdagdha sabhand asura - sunyakayai namah.
Salutations to Her who with the flames of the missile Kamesvara caused the destruction of Bhanda and also of his Capital Sunyaka. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| The best among the intelligent bend the bow of their mental disposition with the bow-string of firm devotion, and having destroyed the enemy of sins with the unfailing arrows of divine contemplatation, become victorious and attain to the undecaying sovereignty of liberation. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Sinless. Om anaghaya namah
The destruction of the evil sacrifice at Darukavanam did not taint Him. So He is called Anagha. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| Let the power of the Mother work in you, but be careful to avoid any mixture or substitution, in its place, of either a magnified ego-working or a force of Ignorance presenting itself as Truth. |
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