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| Ramayana |
| When a person becomes blinded by lust, words of wisdom appear unpleasant even if they are spoken by his dear brother. If the brother persists with his rebukes, the person loses all fondness for him and starts hating him. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Dice is a weapon to befool the greatest of heroes. |
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| Upanishads |
| The desire to know more than mundane matters is rare indeed. |
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| Hinduism |
| A sweet voice alone does not make a singer. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| May He, the creator and supporter of the gods, the lord of all, the destroyer of evil, the great seer, He who brought the cosmic Soul into being, endow us with good thoughts. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is not an object of any of the means of valid knowledge, Himself being the knowing Witness |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om ratna - kinkinik aramya - rasana - dama - bhusitayai namah.
Salutations to Her who is adorned with a girdke having many mini bells set with precious stones. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| I make prostration to Siva and Parvati, who form the embodiment of all arts (fine and practical), whose matted crests are adorned with the crescent moon, who aare to each other the mutual rewards obtained by their respective austerities, who bestow on aspirants liberation and other fruits of devotional life, who are the source of abounding good to the three worlds, who reveal themselves in forms of ever-renewing novelty with the progress of meditation, and whose experience generates supreme bliss in a mind contemplating on them. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Ultra - Austerity.
Om paramaya tapase namah. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| O Lord, the world implores Thee to prevent it from falling back always into the same stupidities. Grant that the mistakes recognised may never be renewed. |
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