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| Ramayana |
| A King must have an open mind. He must learn to learn from others. Everybody has some wisdom which he has gleaned from his experience. The King should use the wisdom of others to enhance his own wisdom because he cannot learn everything through personal experience. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Insults make enemies faster than fire devours wax. |
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| Upanishads |
| God is joy, unceasing joy. The joy of our senses is but temporal. |
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| Hinduism |
| Work. Talking of work is not enough. Food has to be eaten. Talking of it is not enough. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Tranquil men of renunciation attain their salvation in Him, having their merits and demerits destroyed, and being freed from the fear of rebirth. Salutations to Him who exists in the form of salvation. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him whose is the Supreme Self. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om samay antasthayai namah.
Salutations to Her who is likewise the centre of the Samaya doctrine (in which the worship is done internally through meditation and which holds Siva Sakti as of equal importance in all respects.) |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| Were it not for Thy indifference , why dost Thou not cancel the writ of my destiny, which is so conductive to evil desires and so unfavourable to Thy constant contemplation? Do not plead incapacity; for , how didst Thou, with but the tips of Thy finger-nails pluck off, without any exertion whatever, the head if that Brahma, which is so firm and hard? (The reference is to certain Pauranika accounts of Sive humbling the pride of Brahma by nipping off one of his five heads for an offence of his. This is to show that even Brahma who is the determiner of the destinies of all, is under the control of Siva) |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The Doer of all. Om sarvakaraya namah
He is the efficient cause of the world. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| Let us serve the Truth. |
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