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Ramayana |
Those who long for power try to be close to the powerful. Sycophants who crowd around King and Queen are generally power-hungry people. Others who get close to the throne try to get close to the sycophants. |
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Mahabharata |
The sinner dies of his own mistakes. |
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Upanishads |
When conscience is blindfolded by desire, the sense horses drag the body astray. |
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Hinduism |
As the kernel lies within the husk, so the spirit within the body. |
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Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
He, by whom the heavenly bodies are uplifted and the earth is made stable, by whom the firmament and heaven are established, who pervades the entire space by His spiritual essence, -- He it is to whom we offer our prayers. |
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Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
Salutations to Him who is unchanging. |
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Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om kul anganayai namah. Salutations to Her who is the Female Element (kundalini) in the Kula Path. |
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Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
Dull-witted man, wandering about for flowers (for Thy worship_, goes to deep lotus lakes, to uninhabited dense forests and to high mountains. Lo! he does not know how to be happy in life by offering unto Thee, the Lord of uma, the unique lotus of his own heart. |
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Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
Self - manifestation. Om svayambhutaya namah His manifest state (the Immanent) is His own will. |
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Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
Forward, for ever forward! At the end of the tunnel is the light… At the end of the fight is the victory! |
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