Though he may be fighting too, the general also keeps an eye in what is happening to the rest of his troops. He co-ordinates their movements according to the plan. He rallies them when they become demoralised.
Mahabharata
Behold the virtuous emerge from their woes as the sun from the clouds.
Upanishads
Our senses show us the mortal world. Love helps to make it immortal.
Hinduism
The drummer's hand smites sound from the drum. But the drum thinks, " I make music."
Universal Prayers - From Vedas
Being free from sins and impurities, bondages and evils, may I soar up to the highest heavens; may I attain to the same abode as the almighty Brahman.
Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram
Salutations to Him whose worshipful voice is characterized as the Holy Word, the Veda.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
Om kurma - prstha - jayisnu - prapad anvitayai namah. Salutations to Her the arch of whose feet rivals the shapeliness and beauty of the back of a tortoise.
Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya
O Lord! Thou that bearest a skull in hand! Thou mendicant! Thou auspicious and all-pervading One! Accepting this monkey of my mind as my devout offereing, bind it with (the cord of) devotion and bring it under Thy control - this extremely wayward monkey that always wanders in the forest of ignorance, dancing on the hill-tops of young women's breasts, and moving about quickly in diverse directions (according to its promptings) along the branches of worldly desires.
Siva Sahasranama Stotram
Mercury - Budha. Om atraye namah.
Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
To practise Yoga implies the will to overcome all attachments and turn to the Divine alone.
