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| Ramayana |
| The colour of gold can beguile the rich and the poor equally. It seldom matters whether a person already possesses it. He always wants more and tries to do everything to get it. Even his own safety does not matter to him then. |
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| Mahabharata |
| As wood rubbed constantly catches fire, a peaceful man becomes violent if irritated constantly. |
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| Upanishads |
| It sees but appears not to see. |
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| Hinduism |
| While the spirit lives in the body, man is unaware of it. When it leaves the body, man dies. |
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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 the source and means of purity. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om mula -mantr atimikayai namah.
Salutations to Her who is the original Mantra (Mula - mantra, here Panca das aksari) itself. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
O Lord Of the worlds! Thou wert not so pleased with prostration, praise,worship,meditation and ecstasy, as with (the offering of resistance to Thee with) bow, iron pestle and stones. Say, what is it that pleases Thee, and I shall do accordingly.
(The allusion is to Arjuna's encounter with Siva as a hunter. Arjuna was performing worship and austerities with gret concentration in order to propitiate Siva, but before He revealed Himself, He appeared before Arjuna as a hunter and entered into a scuffle with him. In the course of it, Arjuna hit him with these than with his austerities, Siva revealed Himself to him now.) |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Ascetic. Om tapasvine namah
Asceticism is the last act in the process of evolution. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| In the depths of the Inconscient there also shrines the Divine Consciousness, replendent and eternal. |
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