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| Ramayana |
| Time can dull the sharpest ambition. One can laugh sorrowfully at what one would have gladly died for long ago. The intensity of emotion at a particular time does not let this happen before. |
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| Mahabharata |
| When the stakes are high, do not leave the responsibility to others. |
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| Upanishads |
| Though immobile, the spirit traverses great distances in time and space. |
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| Hinduism |
| A wife does not love her husband for his sake but for her own sake. So with the husband. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| He, by whom the heavenly bodies are uplifted and the earth is made stable, by whom the firmament and heaven are established, who pervades the entire space by His spiritual essence, -- He it is to whom we offer our prayers. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is the protector of all created beings. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om nakha - didhiti - samchanna - namajjana - tamo - gunayai namah.
Salutations to Her the illuming splendour of whose toe nails dispels the darkness of ignorance in the votaries prostrating at Her feet. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| My prostration to Sambhu, the source of all happiness, whose existence precedes that of all, who is light limitless, who is revealed through the Vedic texts, who is attained through devotion; who is essentially of the nature of knowledge and bliss; who is engaged in the protection of the three worlds; who is the worthy object of meditation for all Yogis; who is praised with hymns by the celestials; who controls Maya; who whirls round and round in the performance of the beautiful Tandava dance; and who wears matted locks. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
He who aimed an arrow at a stag.
Om mrga banarpanaya namah
The ritualistic Munis of Daruka Vanam produced a stag by white magic. Siva aimed an arrow at it and took possession of it. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| Grant lastly that its actions may be the exact and sincere expression of its proclaimed ideals. |
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