The chieftain must lead his army from the front. He should be able to set personal examples of bravery. Seeing these, his soldiers will be inspired to go all out for the cause. The chieftain is a role model for the rest of the men.
Mahabharata
Boasting about being the cause of somebody's grief is a compounded sin.
Upanishads
Brahma Ananda is the quiet stillness of a subterranean ocean. Worldly pleasures have the turbulence of mountain brooks.
Hinduism
Is the spirit your earthly master that it will be pleased by your physical austerities?
Universal Prayers - From Vedas
Om. May there be peace in heaven. May there be peace in the sky. May there be peace on earth. May there be peace in the water. May there be peace in the plants. May there be peace in the trees. May there be peace in the Gods. May there be peace in Brahman. May there be peace in all. May that peace, real peace, be mine.
Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram
Salutations to Him who possesses various powers capable of creating the manifold universe.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
Om marali - manda - gamanayai namah. Salutations to Her whose gait is slow and gentle like the swan's.
Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya
O Thou merciful cowherd! Protect that only cow of mine - the cow of devotion to Thee - which yields continually as milk an endless supply of the nectar of joy, which lives in the cow-pen of Thy holy feet, and which I have acquired as the result of my meritorious deeds.
Siva Sahasranama Stotram
The One with matted hair.om charmine namah
Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
