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| Ramayana |
| If there are any ill feelings among the soldiers, the general should know about them and try to remove them. Without this, his soldiers will merely be a collection of men and not a well disciplined army. There must be fellow feeling among the soldiers. |
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| Mahabharata |
| The world is a sizzling pan in which the ignorant cook their vain desires. |
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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 |
| If there is no well, dig one to quench your fellow-men's thirst. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Salutations to Brahman. Salutations to God in the fire. Salutations to the God in the earth. Salutations to the God in the plants. Salutations to the God in speech. Salutations to the Lord of speech, I offer my salutations to the supreme Being, the all-pervading Spirit. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him in whose navel rests the world characterized as a lotus flower. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om tatanka - yugali - bhuta - tapan odupa mandalayai namah.
Salutations to Her who has the orbs of the sun and the moon as Her pair of ear pendants. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
Lord of all the words! Rhou destroyer of Cupid! Thou who ridest on the bull! Move about, riding on the horse of my mind, which is good-natured, possessed of movements beautiful and varied, of great speed, capable of understanding all intentions, flawless, and endowed with all auspicious marks.
(Siva has a bull as His mount, and on this He has to move about the world to wherever He is invoked by a devotee. The poet-devotee therefore offers his fast moving mind, a horse in this respect, as a better mount for Him to ride upon.) |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
| One given to Yoga. Om yogine namah. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| The best way is to live in the psychic being, for that is always surrendered to the Mother... |
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