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| Ramayana |
| The greed for power can debase a person who otherwise has many noble qualities. It is like a cancer which grows away at the heart of sound qualities and makes them hollow. Guarding against this greed is a difficult task. |
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| Mahabharata |
| The company of sinners tempt one to sin too. |
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| Upanishads |
| Why do you waste your time searching for Him in temples while he sleeps in your heart? |
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| Hinduism |
| How can you reach the pinnacle when you aim for the base? |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Om. O Gods, may we hear with our ears what is auspicious. O Ye adorable ones, may we see with our eyes what is auspicious. May we sing praises to ye and enjoy with strong limbs and body the life allotted to us by the Gods. Om Peace, Peace, Peace. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is Highest Substance from which all else is produced. |
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| 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. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| I make prostration to Siva and Parvati, who form the embodiment of all arts (fine and practical), whose matted crests are adorned with the crescent moon, who aare to each other the mutual rewards obtained by their respective austerities, who bestow on aspirants liberation and other fruits of devotional life, who are the source of abounding good to the three worlds, who reveal themselves in forms of ever-renewing novelty with the progress of meditation, and whose experience generates supreme bliss in a mind contemplating on them. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
| The Great - minded. Om mahatmane namah |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| The first opening is effected by a concentration in the heart, a call to the Divine to manifest within us… |
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