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| Ramayana |
| A father's love should be healthy. He must care for his son but he should not try to protect him all the time. The son must learn to tackle the problems of life by himself. Overprotection is not helpful but harmful many a time. |
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| Mahabharata |
| He, who leads us astray, is the enemy. |
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| Upanishads |
| Happiness brings serenity. |
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| Hinduism |
| Some take pleasure in stale food, others in fresh food. Some take pleasure in the material, others in the spiritual. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Salutations, O Lord, unto Thee, the Self, the sovereign and the witness of all. Salutations unto Thee, the great Being, the origin of souls, and the source even of the primal matrix of creation. |
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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 mukha - candra -kalankabha mrganabhi - visesakayai namah.
Salutations to Her whose moon - like face is distinguished by the Kasturi Tilaka like the spot in the moon. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| May the lotus feet of Siva, whose garment consists of the quarters of the sky (i.e. who is naked), fill the wardrobe of my mind with their exquisite fragrance that destroys the foul smell of evil tendencies, miseries, binding desires and the like. |
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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) |
| To be open is simply to be so turned to the Mother that her Force can work in you without anything refusing or obstructing her action. |
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