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| Ramayana |
| Virtue can gain commitment from people as neither wealth nor power can. Virtue gives them strength and courage in the face of all adversities. Those who fight against the virtues do not have this advantage. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Will grieving bring back the dead? |
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| Upanishads |
| Objects of pleasure may be short-lived but they can certainly dissipate Man's strength. |
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| Hinduism |
| The world is like a river and our acts are like its ripples. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Let us meditate on the excellent glory of that divine Being who illumines everything. May He guide our understanding. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is the beginning of all that exists. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om cakra - raja - rath arudha - sarv ayudha - pariskrtayai namah.
Salutations to Her seated in Her chariot Cakra - raja equipped with armaments of every kind. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
When shall I, in a blissful mood, pass like a second the long period (Kalpa) covered by the life-time of many Brahmas, staying in the very presence of Siva along with the goblins in a mansion of gold and precious gems situated in (the heavenly moutain of) Kailasa and praying with hands folded and held on the head, "Save me, O supremely auspicious and all-pervading One! Thou that art united with the Divine Mother! Thou Lord of all the worlds!"
(A Kalpa is a thousand divine years, which is equal to 432 million human years. It is one day time of a Brahma and the duration of one cyclic manifestation of the cosmos. At the end of it a Pralaya or dissolution of equal duration takes place. After that a new day begins for Brahma. 360 such days and nights constitute one Brahmic year. 100 such Brahmic years mark the lifetime of a Brahma, after which the presiding Brahma is aborbed in Mahavisnu; and another Brahma takes up the reins.) |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
| Manifestation. Om pravrtaye namah |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| The Divine puts on an appearance of humanity, assumes the outward human nature in order to tread the path and show it to human beings, but does not cease to be the Divine. |
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