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| Ramayana |
| Menial work was done by the shudra caste. They were the servants and slaves. Theirs was to perform the lower functions. It was the duty of their masters to ensure that they did not live in conditions of privations. |
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| Mahabharata |
| When the lion does not behave like one, even a fox may think of overcoming him. |
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| Upanishads |
| Let me share my knowledge with all who wish to do so. |
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| Hinduism |
| If there were no Spirit, who would direct the senses? It would be like a kingdom without a king. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| He who is the giver of spiritual knowledge and strength, whom the world worships, whose command all learned men obey, whose shelter is immortality, whose shadow is death, -- He it is whom we offer our prayers. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him in whom the world exists as the seed. |
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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 |
| O man who deems yourself intelligent! Will ( the talk of) pot, lump of clay, atoms, smoke, fire, mountain, cloth, thread (and the rest of the logician's favourite examples and categories) ever reple the terrible god of death? In vain, then, is all your straining of the throat in heated controversies. Worship the Lord instead and attain quickly to supreme bliss. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Evidence. Om pramanaya namah
Siva's existence is self-evident. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| Grant that it may be also our sole occupation and that all our actions may help us towards this single goal. |
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