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| Ramayana |
| It is not everyone who will offer to arbitrate in a quarrel or help someone in trouble. They may remain mute spectators to the entire incident. The instincts of self preservation are often stronger than that of chivalry. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Never take a decision while angry. |
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| Upanishads |
| As a blind man lead by another blind man loses his way, so does a man led by Priya go astray. |
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| Hinduism |
| Know the best to become the best. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| May Brahman be realised by us. May the highest bliss be realised by us. May Brahman, who is the highest bliss, be realsed by us. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him in whose navel rests the world characterized as a lotus flower. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om sarv arunayai namah.
Salutations to Her who is rose - hued all over. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| O Thou destroyer of Cupid and ruler of the worlds! Thou auspicious and all-pervading One attended upon by thy devotees! May Thou accompanied by Thy Divine Sakti (ie, the Mother of the Universe, Siva's consort, known variously as Uma, Parvati, Gauri, etc.) enter into, and take residence in, the shining and movable tent of my mind, which is fixed every day on the royal road of divine contemplation, and which has the will as the pillar for its support, the Gunas (ie, dispositions of Nature), as its strong ropes, the numerous tendencies as its multiple colours, and the psychic centres as its lotus designs. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Concealed Self. Om antarhitatmane namah
As the deluded think of the rope as snake, the egoistic think of the non-self as Self. |
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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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