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| Ramayana |
| Under normal circumstances, a man may behave in a pragmatic and rational manner. But when he is unhappy and upset, he starts believing in the influence of stars and offers prayers to propitiate them. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Death is preferable to a bad name. |
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| Upanishads |
| All men arise from Him. But the senses perceive men as different from each other. |
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| Hinduism |
| If you welcome a guest with an open heart, you too will have a place in other's hearts. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Salutations to Thee before and to Thee behind. Salutations to Thee on every side. O Lord, Thou art everything. Infinite in power and infinite in prowess, Thou pervadest all. Therefore Thou art the all. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to the unshakeably firm One. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om nabhyalavala - romali - lata - phala - kuca - dvayyai namah.
Salutations to Her whose breasts look like fruits on the creeper of the hair - line spreading upwards from the navel. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| I make prostration to Siva and Parvati, who form the embodiment of all arts (fine and practical), whose matted crests are adorned with the crescent moon, who aare to each other the mutual rewards obtained by their respective austerities, who bestow on aspirants liberation and other fruits of devotional life, who are the source of abounding good to the three worlds, who reveal themselves in forms of ever-renewing novelty with the progress of meditation, and whose experience generates supreme bliss in a mind contemplating on them. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Famous. Om mahayasase namah
The Indispensable One becomes famous. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| The complete unification of the whole being around the psychic centre is the essential condition to realise a perfect sincerity. |
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