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| Ramayana |
| Few sights are more touching than that of a woman in distress. It can melt the hardest of hearts. It can arouse chivalry even in weak or cowardly breasts. Her cries can bring forth heroism even in the old and infirm. |
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| Mahabharata |
| The counsel of those with vested interest should be analysed carefully. |
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| Upanishads |
| Vanity sits ill on a person who claims to know the Supreme, for what he knows is but a drop in the ocean. |
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| Hinduism |
| When you can pray for eternal happiness, why do you clamour for transient things? |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Stainless, Thou pervadest this universe both inside and outside, like the sky. Thou art the uncontaminated, changeless and indestructible, the pure and eternal wisdom and truth. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who cannot be grasped by the organs of activity. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om Sakti - kut aikat apanna - katyadho bhaga - dharinyai namah. Salutations to Her whose form below waist is identical with the last part (Sakthi - Kuta) of Panca - dasaksari Mantra. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| I shall be competent, O Siva, to perform Thy worship, praise and meditation when I become he who built a bridge across the ocean (i.e. Sri Rama), or he who pressed down the great mountain Vindhya with his palm (i.e. sage Agastya) or he who over-stepped the creator Brahma (i.e. Sri Krishna). |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Inert Group. Om abaloganaya namah The twenty four categories of Sankhya are referred to in this nama. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| Make of us the hero warriors we aspire to become. May we fight successfully the great battle of the future that is to be born against the past that seeks to endure; so that the new things may manifest and we be ready to receive them. |
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