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| Ramayana |
| The real worth of a person becomes apparent not during conditions of plenty but during privations. A poor man does not show his worth if he is transferred to opulent sorroundings. But a rich man who can live with as much contentment in a poor hut is truly great. |
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| Mahabharata |
| The wise do not anger at the words of a fool. |
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| Upanishads |
| As a blind man lead by another blind man loses his way, so does a man led by Priya go astray. |
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| Hinduism |
| Food enters the stomach but all the senses feel content. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Thou hast no colour, no form, no weapons, no particular abode. Yet thou revealest Thyself unto Thy devotess in a personal form. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is the primal substance of the universe, as well as the individual Self and the Ruler of these two. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om kuruvinda - mani -srent - kanat - kotira - manditayai namah.
Salutations to Her whose crown in shining with rows of Kuruvinda gems. |
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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 |
The Great Jaws. Om mahahanave namah
Siva is capable of swallowing the universe. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| Without care for time, without fear for space, surging out purified from the flames of the ordeal, we shall fly without stop towards the realisation of our goal, the supramental victory. |
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