'Words of power' is a monthly section of Hindu Voice UK, consisting of a series of quotations from Hindu sacred literature to help introduce the timeless wisdom contained within.

Conscience versus conformity

One should practise what one considers to be one's duty, guided by reasons, instead of blindly following the practices of the world (Mahabharata)

The Omnipresence of God

As the air is everywhere, flowing around a pot and filling it,
So God is everywhere, filling all things and flowing through them forever (Ashtavakra Gita)

Reverence for all creation

Eight million four hundred thousand species of living beings, classified under four broad divisions, inhabit land, water and the air. Realising the whole world to be pervaded by Sita and Rama, I make obeisance with folded hands (Tulsidas Ramayana)

The path to ruin

Threefold are the doors of Hell, leading to the ruin of the soul - desire, wrath and greed; therefore let man renounce these three (Gita)