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| Ramayana |
| A good preceptor is one who understands the needs of his pupils. He teaches each student the functions of his line or caste, But to the royal heir, he teaches everything because a King is in overall charges of all the functions in his kingdom. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Even the well intentioned lose their sense of judgement under stress. |
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| Upanishads |
| Rarer still is the man who can face the truth with courage. |
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| Hinduism |
| Erudition without conscience is useless indeed. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| The divine Being who dwells in the moving and the non-moving, but is Himself immutable; who is the light of knowledge and the dispeller of blinding darkness, - Him, the dweller in the heart of all beings, I behold. Him, the supreme Self, I salute. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is unchanging. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om panca - brahm asana - sthitayai namah.
Salutations to Her who rests on a seat formed of the five Divinities (Brahmans) - Brahma, Visnu, Rudra, Isana and Sadasiva. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| O Thou who hast as ornament the crescent moon in Thy matted locks! Thou master of creatures! Thou the Lord of all! Thou teacher of the worlds! Had I a thousand arms like the sun to offer Thee cloth; had I all-pervasiveness like Vishnu to worship Thee with flowers; had I the power of wafting fragrance like the air to wave incense before Thee; had I control over fire like Indra, the chief of Agni , to prepare cooked offerings for Thee; and had I origin in the Golden Egg like Hiranygarbha to worship Thee with the needed vessel - then I could have accomplished Thy service. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
The One concealed in the guise of madness. Om unmattavesha pracchannaya namah
He is actually mad after devotees. |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| To be a Yogi; a Sannyasi, a Tapaswi is not the object here. The object is transformation... |
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