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| Ramayana |
| A King should have virtues of aggression as well as that of gentleness. The two appear contradictory yet the King must have both. He must not hesitate before causing death. Equally he must learn not to cause death without good reason. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Will grieving bring back the dead? |
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| Upanishads |
| Forsake not words; forsake only words of envy and greed. |
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| Hinduism |
| Hope is better than many other states of mind. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Being purified by the holy, all-pervading, eternal presence of the effulgent. Being, man gets rid of evil. May we, too, go beyond the touch of sin, our great enemy, being freed from impurity by that ever-holy Presence that purifies all. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is realized through the union of the individual Self and the Supreme Self. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om kiri - cakra - rath arudha - danda - natha puras - krayai namah.
Salutations to Her who is preceded by Dandanatha, the commander of Her armies in his chariot Kiri - cakra. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| Lord Vishnu, who took many forms - as Thy arrow, as the Thy mount, as Thy consort occupying half They body, as a boar, as Thy friend, as Thy drummer etc. - and who offered his eyes at Thy feet ( in place of lotus flower) - that Vishnu, forming a part of Thy very being, is indeed the most worshipful among the worshipful. If not he, who is there to excel him? |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Mystic Sound. Om mantraya namah
That which strengthens the mind is mantram. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| Above all the complications of the so-called human wisdom stands the luminous simplicity of the Divine's Grace, ready to act if we allow It to do so. |
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