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| Ramayana |
| It is not easy to predict behaviour. A King may have huge armies but instead of waging a battle and winning his prize by the might of his arms, he prefers to steal it. Perhaps stolen fruits are sweeter. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Disputes between brothers should be settled by all possible means within the family itself. |
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| Upanishads |
| Emulate the learned and the pious in all your thoughts and deeds. |
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| Hinduism |
| A man can live without his senses but when the spirit leaves him, he dies. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Being purified by the holy, all-pervading, eternal presence of the effulgent. Being, man gets rid of evil. May we, too, go beyond the touch of sin, our great enemy, being freed from impurity by that ever-holy Presence that purifies all. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is unchanging. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om samay antasthayai namah.
Salutations to Her who is likewise the centre of the Samaya doctrine (in which the worship is done internally through meditation and which holds Siva Sakti as of equal importance in all respects.) |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
Just as the Devas churned the Ocean of Milk and obtained the moon (Soma), the wish fulylling tree, the cow of plenty, the 'magic-gem', nectar, and Rama (Lakshmi), so the wise men churn the ocean of the Vedas, using their virtuous mind as the rod and firm devotion as the rope string, and obtain Thee, who art in union with Divine Mother (Sa-uma =soma)-- Thee who fulfillest all wants like the wish-fulling tree and the cow of plenty, who grantest all desires like the 'magic-gem', who conferest perpetual bliss on the wise like nectar, and who givest liberation like Lakshmi.
(The allusion is to the Pauranika story about the churning of the ocean by Devas and Asuras. The many rare things that came up in the course of the churning are referred to here. The practice of devotion to Siva and its fruits are compared to this episode and the results got from it.) |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
Bestower of boons. Om varadaya namah
Lord, let me not contaminate my mind by asking for any boon other than Your feet. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| Nothing can be done except through the force of the Mother. |
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