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| Ramayana |
| Most of the suffering in this world grows out of our pride. Our egos cannot accept defeat or downfall. They drive us on and on, from one height to another, never allowing us a moment of peace. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Boasting about being the cause of somebody's grief is a compounded sin. |
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| Upanishads |
| A man with a hundred desires sleeps uneasy. |
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| Hinduism |
| The moon is the Lord of the heart. As the moon is illumined by the sun, so too is the heart swayed by emotions. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Let our speech be devoted to the narration of Thy excellence, our ears to the hearing of Thy wonderful glory, our hands to the performance of Thy work, our minds to meditation on Thy holy feet, our heads to bowing to the world - Thy adobe - and our eyes to seeing the righteous who are Thy body. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is the Ruler of the sense organs. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om kula - sanketa - palinyai namah.
Salutations to Her who guards the esoteric doctrine of the Kaulas. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| O Thou who hast as ornament the crescent moon in Thy matted locks! Thou master of creatures! Thou the Lord of all! Thou teacher of the worlds! Had I a thousand arms like the sun to offer Thee cloth; had I all-pervasiveness like Vishnu to worship Thee with flowers; had I the power of wafting fragrance like the air to wave incense before Thee; had I control over fire like Indra, the chief of Agni , to prepare cooked offerings for Thee; and had I origin in the Golden Egg like Hiranygarbha to worship Thee with the needed vessel - then I could have accomplished Thy service. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Cosmic Body. Om mahakayaya namah
The Virat is His body. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| The Divine is with you helping and guiding you. |
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