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| Ramayana |
| True happiness is seldom the result of owning much land, huge palaces or commanding powerful armies. When a man has no sons to leave all this to, he feels unhappy. His successes appear futile to him. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Marriage between equals is favoured by all. |
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| Upanishads |
| The soul rises on the horizon of my intellect. |
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| Hinduism |
| Hope is better than many other states of mind. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Wealth, noble ancestry, physical beauty, asceticism, scriptural knowledge, power, energy, courage, might, diligence, prudence and Yogic practice - all these I deem of no avail in the worship of the suprem Being. For, indeed, the almighty Lord is pleased with the devotee not for anything else but for his great devotion to Him. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him whose worshipful voice is characterized as the Holy Word, the Veda. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om sampatkari - samarudha - sindhura - vraja - sevitayai namah.
Salutations to Her who is accompanied by a regiment of elephants headed by Sampatkari. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| Thou holdest the deer in hand as the lion its prey. Thou didst kill the elephant-shaped and tiger-shaped monsters as the lion kills the leaders of elephant herds and tigers of huge proportions. Thou dost destroy all beings at the end of the cycle as the lion does the beasts of the forest. When the Lord Siva - the fair-complexioned and the five-faced or pancamukha, who thus resembles in all respects the lion also called the panca mukha or the five-faced -- resides in the cave of my heart, whence is there any cause of fear for me? |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
Firm. Om sthiraya namah
Siva is firm while His counterpart Sakti is fleeting. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| ...Thy Freedom and not a semblance of freedom, Thy Unity and not a semblance of unity. |
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