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| Ramayana |
| Only values are permanent. Values such as trust, faith, belief and love remain immutable through generations. Everything else grows, develops, declines and perishes. All else is temporary and the wise man realises this. |
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| Mahabharata |
| The poor man is ridiculed even by his wife. |
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| Upanishads |
| Brahma Ananda is the quiet stillness of a subterranean ocean. Worldly pleasures have the turbulence of mountain brooks. |
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| Hinduism |
| If you destroy a live body, you are a murderer. When you destroy a dead body, who can call you a murderer? So worship life and life sustaining forces. |
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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 has become the year, the essence of Time. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om panca - brahm asana - sthitayai namah.
Salutations to Her who rests on a seat formed of the five Divinities (Brahmans) - Brahma, Visnu, Rudra, Isana and Sadasiva. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
O Lord of Bhavani! I attain to similarity of form with Thee by performing Thy ritualistic worship; to closeness with Thee by singing Thy praise; to residence in Thy heavenly plane by associating and conversing with Thy noble devotees; and to oneness with Thee by contemplating on Thy form constituted of the whole of this living and non-living world. Thus in this very embodiment I shall attain life's fulfilment.
(The four levels in the attainment of the Lord are referred to here. These are in the order stated above as sarupya, samipya, salokya and sayujya, the means also for those respective attainments are mentioned here.) |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Doer of all. Om sarvakaraya namah
He is the efficient cause of the world. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| The more we advance on the way, the more the need of the Divine Presence becomes imperative and indispensable. |
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