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| Ramayana |
| The generals should know their soldiers well. If they help and support and develop the soldiers, they will be able to win their loyalties. During battle, these soldiers will stick with their general to the last and not run away when the heat is on. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Disease, fire, enemy and debt are equally harmful. |
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| Upanishads |
| Giving without humility is but the way to downfall. |
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| Hinduism |
| Offer your food to the Great Omnipresent before eating. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| May He, the One without a second, who, though formless, produces, by means of His manifold powers, various forms without any purpose of His own; from whom the universe comes into being in the beginning of creation; and to whom it returns in the end- endow us with good thoughts. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who manifested Himself in the Man-lion body. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om kadamba - manjari - klpta - karnapura manoharayai namah.
Salutations to Her who is radiant and charming with a bunch of Kadamba flowers over her ears. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
O my good mind! Worship the lotus feet of Siva that constitute the well-watered field yielding the valuable herbs of liberation desired by you - the field dor the attainment of which even Vishnu the husband of Sri (The Goddess of beauty and prosperity) and of Bhu (the goddess of earth), took the form of a boar.
(The allusion is to the Pauranika story of Brahma and Vishnu starting to find out the head and feet of Siva respectively. Brahma took the form of a Swan and flew up, while Vishnu took the form of a Boar and burrowed down. Both of them are said to have failed to find their goals.) |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
| The Node. Om katave namah. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| ...and the transformation can only be done by a force infinitely greater than your own; it can only be done by being truly like a child in the hands of Divine Mother. |
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