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| Ramayana |
| A King must have an open mind. He must learn to learn from others. Everybody has some wisdom which he has gleaned from his experience. The King should use the wisdom of others to enhance his own wisdom because he cannot learn everything through personal experience. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Dice is a weapon to befool the greatest of heroes. |
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| Upanishads |
| Every object has some life, even inanimate ones. So treat all with respect. |
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| Hinduism |
| Lead me from death to immortality. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Om. May the presiding deity of day be propitious to us. May the presiding deity of night be propitous to us. May the presiding deity of the sense of vision be propitious to us. May the Gods of strength and of intellect also be propitious to us. May the all-pervading Lord be propitious. Adoration to Brahman. Adoration to Thee, the controller of activities. Thou art, verily, the visible Brahman. Verily, I will declare Thee to be the visible Brahman. The right will I speak. The truth will I speak. May Brahman protect me. May Brahman protect the preceptor. May He protect me. May HE protect the preceptor. Om Peace, Peace, Peace. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to the Destroyer of sins. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om manikya - mukut akara janu - dvaya - virajitayai namah.
Salutations to Her whose two knees are like crowns shaped from the precious stone Manikya. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| O Lord of Uma! Granted that plenty of ingredients of worship have been secured. How can I, even then, perform Thy worship? For I have not acquired the form of a bird(i.e. of swan) or of a boar (like Brahma and Vishnu, who, assuming these forms, went in search of Thy head and feet respectively but failed to reach them). So, O all-pervading one, I do not know Thy head or feet. Indeed, even Brahma and Vishnu who assumed these forms, did not in truth know them. |
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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) |
| It is the Divine Force which works to remove the ignorance and change the nature into the divine nature. |
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