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| Ramayana |
| When a childless couple is blessed with a baby, both the parents rejoice. The father because someone will inherit his fortune. The mother because she is not barren. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Death is preferable to a bad name. |
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| Upanishads |
| Inside this body of flesh, blood and bones, there is another of vibrating energy. |
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| Hinduism |
| Sensations are the food of the mind. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| O Lord who art kind to the helpless, terribly afraid am I of the unbearable and dreadful woe that overtakes those who turn round and round in the wheel of existence. Bound though I be by the consequences of my actions, O most glorious one, when shalt Thou, being propitious, recall me unto Thy blessed feet that bestow salvation and protection? |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to the eternally established one. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om cid - agni - kunda-sambhutayai namah.
Salutations to Her who came out of the fire of Pure Consciousness. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| O Lord! Mother Devotion nurses her baby, the devotee, laying him on the cot of Thy contemplation. She causes him horripilation with tears of joy, covers him with the wrapper of purity, feeds him with the nectar of Thy stories contained in the mouth of the conch (that is the Vedas), and protects his body with the Rudraksa beads and the sacred ashes. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Ten - Armed.
Om Daasabahave namah
Consistent with His five faces Siva has ten arms with celestial weapons. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute:
A new light breaks upon the earth,
A new world is born.
The things that were promised are fulfilled. |
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