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| Ramayana |
| Marriages of Kings are not made for love alone. Nor are they made because a couple is well matched. Such marriages are generally made after much deliberation because they will create political alliances which are necessary in times of distress. |
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| Mahabharata |
| The wily try to win by stealing and cheating. |
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| Upanishads |
| Neither analysis nor argument will reveal the Supreme. |
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| Hinduism |
| If you must take a vow, take it to do good. |
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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 God whose majesty is unconditional. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om nava campaka - puspabha - nasa - danda - vira -jitayai namah.
Salutations to Her whose shapely nose is like a fresh - blown Campaka bud. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
O Lord! Thou who art fond of residing in fortresses (Durga)! Take Thy residence always in the well-supplied fortress of my mind, having calmness as the moat, unyielding resolution as the surrounding walls, the rising multitude of virtues as the faithful army, the powerful senses located in the body as the gates, and knowledge as abounding wealth.
(There is pun on the word durga. It means a fortress and also Parvati the Divine Mother.) |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
| Renown as the Core of all beings. Om Sarva vikhyataya namah |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| ...Thy Freedom and not a semblance of freedom, Thy Unity and not a semblance of unity. |
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