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Ramayana |
The likes and dislikes of women are not common. Some like bold, loud-spoken and boisterous men. Others may prefer soft-spoken, quiet and dignified men. Some like humble men, others may prefer arrogance. |
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Mahabharata |
When the meek do not demand their rights, the proud take undue advantage. |
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Upanishads |
True love springs from the knowledge of universality with all forms of life. |
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Hinduism |
Who can know Him without contemplation? |
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Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
Lord of the universe, lover of Thy devotees, with Thy grace, do Thou somehow save me who am helpless, unhappy and disappointed through my failure to attain the goal. |
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Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
Salutations to Him who is the cognizing Intelligence. |
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Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om nabhyalavala - romali - lata - phala - kuca - dvayyai namah. Salutations to Her whose breasts look like fruits on the creeper of the hair - line spreading upwards from the navel. |
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Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
O Lord! What does it avail a man to be a student, a householder, an anchorite , a mendicant, or one outside these four orders? O Master of all being! Bestower of all good! He whose heart-lotus comes in Thy possession - to him Thou becomest his 'own', and Thyself bearest his worldly burdens. |
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Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Great Reflection. Om maharetase namah Salutation to Siva who reflects Himself in Prakriti as the Jiva. |
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Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
… And closely united in an identification which grows more and more integral, more and more constant, we turn to the Lord of the Universe and to That which is beyond in a great aspiration towards the new Light. |
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