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| Ramayana |
| Restlessness and contentment cannot do hand in hand. The ambitious man is restless. He seeks success here, there, everywhere. The contended man looks into his own heart and finds total peace. |
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| Mahabharata |
| How can one who has not understood the scriptures become a preceptor? |
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| Upanishads |
| Food is the fuel of life. From it comes energy which sustains life. |
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| Hinduism |
| Man does not covet wealth; he covets what wealth can give him. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Salutations unto the highest Lord, unto Brahman, unto Him of infinite power, who is without any form and yet is the possessor of countless forms, who is the doer of wonderful deeds. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is as clear and luminous as the day. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om nakha - didhiti - samchanna - namajjana - tamo - gunayai namah.
Salutations to Her the illuming splendour of whose toe nails dispels the darkness of ignorance in the votaries prostrating at Her feet. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| O Thou merciful cowherd! Protect that only cow of mine - the cow of devotion to Thee - which yields continually as milk an endless supply of the nectar of joy, which lives in the cow-pen of Thy holy feet, and which I have acquired as the result of my meritorious deeds. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
Terrific. Om bhimaya namah
Siva is both soft and terrific. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| But the surrender must be to the Mother - not even to the Force, but to the Mother herself. |
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