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| Ramayana |
| Even the subjects may rejoice when a child is born to their king and queen. Now they are confident about a continuity of rule and tradition. All over the world, in all ages, the heir to the throne is welcomed like this. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Strategic alliances are well sealed by marriage. |
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| Upanishads |
| You will surely see Him when you surrender you ego and not before. |
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| Hinduism |
| The potter sees God in clay. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| The wise, attaining to Thee alone the surest refuge, cross the terrible ocean of birth and death, the cause of endless pain and misery. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to God whose majesty is unconditional. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om mula - kuta - traya - kalebarayai namah. Salutations to Her whose body is identical with Panca - das aksar Mantra with all its Kutas or combination of letters. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| When shall I behold Thee, three-eyed and blue-throated, sitting on the hump of Thy huge and spirited bull, with the battle axe and deer in Thy two hands and Uma holding thy body in embrace, while the celestial attendants play about, the divinities like Brahma sing hymns if praise and the ascetics cry "Hail"? |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Omniscient. Om sarvajnaya namah There is nothing beyond the ken of Siva. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| Lord, grant that everything in us may be ready for Thy Realisation. On the threshold of the new year we bow down to Thee, O Lord, Supreme Realiser. |
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