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| Ramayana |
| Words may not suffice to gain confidence always. It may be necessary to provide tangible evidence to win confidence. Together the words and evidence can create acceptance in the doubtful. |
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| Mahabharata |
| To overcome the enemy, offer his near one all the enemy's wealth and position. |
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| Upanishads |
| All men arise from Him. But the senses perceive men as different from each other. |
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| Hinduism |
| A starving man should not be choosy about his food. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| May the effulgent Being, the One without a second, who, like a spider, spontaneously covers Himself with threads made out of His own creative powers, grant us union with himself, the Brahman. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to the Eternal. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om sinjana - mani - manjtra - mandita - sripad ambujayai namah.
Salutations to Her whose lotus - feet are adorned with tinkling anklets set with jewels. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
A worn-out foot-wear becomes the indicator betwixt Siva's eye-brows; the pouring of the water carried in the mouth becomes His sacred bath; a piece of meat, a part of which has been bitten off; takes the place of fresh food-offering; and the erstwhile hunter becomes the best of devotees. What is there that the love of God cannot accomplish?
(The allusion is to the story of saint Kannappar, the wild hunter, who by the Lord's grace became the prince of devotion in a moment. He knew none of the scriptural forms of worship, and so he made offerings to Siva's image in his own wild fashion. When he found that eyes of the image were bleeding, he plulled out his own eyes and placed them in their place. Since he would have no eyesight himself himself when placing the second eye, he marked the proper place beforehand with his worn-out sandal.) |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
Terrific. Om bhimaya namah
Siva is both soft and terrific. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| Without care for time, without fear for space, surging out purified from the flames of the ordeal, we shall fly without stop towards the realisation of our goal, the supramental victory. |
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