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| Ramayana |
| True happiness is seldom the result of owning much land, huge palaces or commanding powerful armies. When a man has no sons to leave all this to, he feels unhappy. His successes appear futile to him. |
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| Mahabharata |
| One who gives over his kingdom to an enemy does injustice to his subjects. |
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| Upanishads |
| Though immobile, the spirit traverses great distances in time and space. |
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| Hinduism |
| The Supreme was there when neither earth nor water existed, nor day nor night. Believe in Him and lead a full a life. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Salutations to Brahman. Salutations to God in the fire. Salutations to the God in the earth. Salutations to the God in the plants. Salutations to the God in speech. Salutations to the Lord of speech, I offer my salutations to the supreme Being, the all-pervading Spirit. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is covetably accepted by the creatures. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om stana - bhara dalan - madhya - patta - bandha - vali - trayayai namah.
Salutations to Her whose waist, breaking under the weight of Her breasts, gets a supporting belt in the three folds of Her abdomen. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| Just as the ocean swells when, attended by the stars, the full moon - pure, auspicious, deer-marked and shattering darkness - is revealed in the sky by the 'eastern mountain', do one's joy increases beyond measure when Thou - who art united with the Divine Mother (Soma), who art pure, auspicious and perfect, and who bearest the deer and destroyest ignorance, appearest in the heart, - Thy nectarine form being revealed by the mountain of virtues acquired in the past. Then there is occupation, indeed, for the wise. |
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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) |
| It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognised it. |
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