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| Ramayana |
| In every difficult situation there is an opportunity. A prince may be banished from the royal palace to live a life of hardship in the jungles. In the jungle reside many sages, learned and wise in the meaning of life. From them the prince imbibes knowledge and grows in wisdom. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Pretended devotion does not win God. |
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| Upanishads |
| Every object has some life, even inanimate ones. So treat all with respect. |
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| Hinduism |
| Know the best to become the best. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| We contemplate on the embodiment of the highest wisdom. We meditate upon the very First Cause. May that Brahman - the infinite Being - ever guide our understanding. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is the Eldest, being the cause of all. |
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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 |
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 |
| The Node. Om katave namah. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
To know is good,
to live is better,
to be, that is perfect. |
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