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| Ramayana |
| Marriages of Kings are not made for love alone. Nor are they made because a couple is well matched. Such marriages are generally made after much deliberation because they will create political alliances which are necessary in times of distress. |
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| Mahabharata |
| The wise man is needed as much on the battle field as in the council hall. |
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| Upanishads |
| Our karma is the bow and spirit the arrow. The Supreme Consciousness is their target. |
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| Hinduism |
| Lead me from darkness to light. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Its branches are spread below and above, nourished by Gunas. The sense-objects are its buds, and its roots stretch down below in the world of men, creating actions. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is righteousness conferring the four human ends and who manifested himself as the Boar. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om kamesa - jnata - saubhagya - mardav oru - dvay anvitayai namah.
Salutations to Her the beauty and smoothness of whose thighs are known only to Her consort, the Conqueror of Love (Kamesa). |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| O Lord, Thou bestower of happiness on the whole world! All glory unto that current of divine bliss, which, brimming from the river of Thy holy stories, flows into the lake of my mind through the canals of the intellect, subduling the dust of sins and cooling the heat of misery born of wanderings in transmigratory cycles. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
| The Self of all Beings. Om mahatmane namah |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| No human will can finally prevail against the Divine's Will. |
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