Alliances can be formed by valuable transactions between two parties. One must do a favour or promise a favour in return. Mere promises which do not materialise can sour the warmest of relationships.
Mahabharata
A king punishes wrongdoers. The king's conscience should punish him on wrongdoing.
Upanishads
Adham (inferior) are they who in spite of receiving and understanding instructions, refuse to act.
Hinduism
Lead me from death to immortality.
Universal Prayers - From Vedas
Stainless, Thou pervadest this universe both inside and outside, like the sky. Thou art the uncontaminated, changeless and indestructible, the pure and eternal wisdom and truth.
Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram
Salutations to Him who is the Highest Good that confers merit and whose remembrance destroys evil.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
Om udyad - bharty - sahasrabhayai namah. Salutations to Her who is radiant as a thousand suns rising together.
Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya
What am I to petition unto Thee who bearest the responsibility for both the present and the future welfare of beings; who art ready to confer all good (on devotees); who art the perfect revealer of all religions existing and yet to exist; and who art all-knowing and all-merciful? Always do I think of Thee in my mind as my dearest and nearest.
Siva Sahasranama Stotram
The Terrible Austerity. Om Ghoratapase namah Siva being totally immersed in His Spiritual Excellence is His terrible austerity.
Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
The right attitude is to be devoted and given to the Mother and to wish to be whatever she wants you to be. The rest is for the Mother to decide and do in you.
