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| Ramayana |
| People may hesitate to accept a challenge under normal circumstances. But if the prize be tantalising and wonderful, they forget all their inhibitions and charge forward. Their longing for the prize makes them forget their weaknesses and inabilities. |
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| Mahabharata |
| To overcome the enemy, offer his near one all the enemy's wealth and position. |
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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 |
| Words that can describe him do not exist. Believe in him and be happy. |
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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 who is the Ruler of the sense organs. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om cid - agni - kunda-sambhutayai namah.
Salutations to Her who came out of the fire of Pure Consciousness. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
O Lord of Bhavani! I attain to similarity of form with Thee by performing Thy ritualistic worship; to closeness with Thee by singing Thy praise; to residence in Thy heavenly plane by associating and conversing with Thy noble devotees; and to oneness with Thee by contemplating on Thy form constituted of the whole of this living and non-living world. Thus in this very embodiment I shall attain life's fulfilment.
(The four levels in the attainment of the Lord are referred to here. These are in the order stated above as sarupya, samipya, salokya and sayujya, the means also for those respective attainments are mentioned here.) |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
| With tuft like the crest of a peacock. Om sikhandine namah |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| The Mother comes in order to bring down the Supramental and it is the descent which makes her full manifestation here possible. |
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