A man does not become good by distributing alms or by donning saffron robes. If he can share the joys and sorrows of others with an open heart, he is displaying the quality of true goodness.
Mahabharata
How can one who has not understood the scriptures become a preceptor?
Upanishads
If the body be weak, how can it be the receptacle of the immortal Spirit?
Hinduism
Lead me from death to immortality.
Universal Prayers - From Vedas
Let us meditate on the excellent glory of that divine Being who illumines everything. May He guide our understanding.
Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram
Salutations to Him who rules the universe by offering himself as its supporting Self.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
Om sudha - sagara - madhyasthayai namah. Salutations to Her who dwells in the centre of the sea of Nectar (which is the light of the Blissful Moon of the pericap of the Sahasrara).
Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya
Not even a little of happiness is obtained by the worship of deities who are themselves subject to birth and death. There is no doubt about this. They are the great, and they, indeed, are the happy, that worship Siva (who is united with the Divine Mother), and who is birthless and deathless.
Siva Sahasranama Stotram
Renown as the Core of all beings. Om Sarva vikhyataya namah
Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
