“Yoga, Tantra, Kriya and other systems of knowledge and devotion can only mould your vessel (body-mind) in a certain way. The divine nectar descends in the vessel only by His grace. Even the best practitioners remain empty all their life.” SpiritualityAwarenessBuddhismYogaAwakeningTantraKriya Author:Shunya
“A tree trunk is not a perfect cylindrical or rectangle shape. It's irregular and it's beautiful. That's how life is. Make peace with the mistakes and foolishness of past.” LifeInspirationalPainPastMotivationSpiritualityGuiltMistakes Author:Shunya
“If you have done something foolish, swallow the bad feeling and close the circle. If you carry around the guilt, it will push you down a spiral path.” LifePastHealingMeditationSelf LoveGuiltMistakes Author:Shunya
“As long as the white sheet is spotless, you keep it carefully. When a spot appears on it, you start using it brutally. The ideas of morality or purity imposed on you by the outside world are like a dam. When it breaks, floods ensue. The only source of permanent purity is inside you.” ReligionMoralityGuiltMistakesPurityDogma Author:Shunya
“Information stuffed in our mind is like a floodlight. We dim it only while enjoying dance, music, dance of colours and sounds in nature.” SpiritualityPeaceNatureSilenceMusicDanceNo Thought Author:Shunya
“A medicine that cures death would be the most popular thing in the world. Since that's not available, religions and sects that promise a heaven after death are the most popular.” TruthReligionHeavenTheologyDogma Author:Shunya
“The hell is not something which is full of trash, because one can adjust and find comfort in trash after some time. The hell is when our little temple of purity gets surrounded by trash.” HeavenHellPurityHinduismAdvaitaDualityRelativityNon DualityHindu Philosophy Author:Shunya
“Tendency of your mind is to remember those who have hurt you. Flip the mind, nurture the soul: Remember those who have been nice to you.” MindSoulPainSpiritualPeaceHurtPsychology Author:Shunya
“Attachment hurts you, detachment heals you back. At the end of the cycle, you are no longer the same person. This entire cyclic process is love. It evolves you. Attachment alone is not love.” LovePainHurtTransformationAttachment Author:Shunya
“Karma says, If somebody hurts you, they will get punished for it. If you hurt yourself, you will get punished for it. If you are harming yourself by thoughts or actions, you will get punished for it. The punishment you thus get is also a hurt you cause to yourself. Then you get punished for that too. It becomes an endless loop of self-destruction.” LifeWisdomPainSpiritualityHurtSelf LoveKarmaPunishmentSelf Harm Author:Shunya
“Those who have hurt you don't know that they have hurt themselves. Their pain will be incurable because the only cure will be with you and you will have gone far away from them by the time they get symptoms.” PainLife LessonsHurtForgivenessRevenge Author:Shunya
“Let your pain be so deep and wide that rivers of good fortune start flowing towards it.” LifePainSpiritualityRelationshipsHurtFailure Author:Shunya
“Responding to hurt at body level (shedding tears) and mind level (churning thoughts) gives you release. You learned this response from parents, society, books, TV, movies etc. If you don’t respond to hurt at body-mind level, it will hit directly at your soul. And then soul will run towards the supreme soul. Hurt will become the purest form of prayer which gets answered instantly.” MindSoulPainHurtPrayerBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“If you are arguing with somebody, the root of that argument lies in an inner wound that person gave you. You can’t show that wound because of the fear of being judged or labelled. So, you create an outer wound at some small thing and start arguing in the hope of rubbing some ice to your inner wound. This leads to more wounds - inner and outer.” LoveMindSoulPainPeaceRelationshipsHurtPsychology Author:Shunya
“Your ego lives inside you but she is not you; she is your close cousin. We always react more when a family member is hurt. That’s why you react when your dear cousin Ego gets hurt. Your core self is very secure and untroubled by what people say.” LifeMindPainHurtEgoInsecurity Author:Shunya
“If you’re hurt, get a closure asap. Once pus collects in the wound, scratching it gives more pleasure than healing it.” PainHurtHealingClosure Author:Shunya
“Being able to forget something is no less than a superpower. You can't forget by trying to forget. Instead, switch to the higher perspective as often as possible. Wonder about the mysteries of universe.” PainUniverseRelationshipsHurtForgivenessTraumaForgetfulness Author:Shunya
“Is rainbow real or it's just a trick of light? Is light real or it's just a trick of darkness?” PhilosophyRealitySpiritualityHinduismQuantum Physics Author:Shunya
“Dreams also seem real while you're into them. You say you're in reality right now. But this may also be a dream, a fiction. The only way to find out is to wake up!” PhilosophyRealitySpiritualityDreamsHinduismShunya Author:Shunya
“There was a time when you could drink water directly from lakes and rivers. Now you've to filter it. Same with people. You will always get dirt while dealing with people. You have to install a filter in your head.” LifeWisdomRealityLife LessonsRelationships Author:Shunya
“Just as different games are available on android, different realities are available in the universe.” RealitySpiritualityBuddhismHinduismQuantum PhysicsParallel Universes Author:Shunya
“When you're 'nothing', you're the origin of your reality. When you're a body-mind, you're the prisoner of your reality.” PhilosophyRealitySpiritualityHinduismAdvaitaVedanta Author:Shunya
“Your intuition can guide you; it can't guide your alternative self that you carry to fit in with others.” MindSoulRealitySpiritualityIntuition Author:Shunya
“Looking from a distance, we find something attractive and excitedly commit to it. When we come near, we find it unbearable. Then we have to continue with it because we have already committed to it. Everything in Maya (Time-Space) is like that. You current status in life is something your younger self would find very attractive. It looked exciting from the distance of Time. Now it’s not.” LifeWisdomRealityTruthRelationshipsIllusionCommitment Author:Shunya
“When you know that you are not in control, everything will feel under control. When you are in the illusion that you are in control, everything will go out of control and you will struggle to maintain your illusion.” RealityBuddhismIllusionZenControlHinduismLet Go Author:Shunya
“Even if you leave a negative comment on a video, youtube algorithm thinks that you want more such videos in your feed. The universe works in the same way. Don’t engage with the type of things that you don’t want in your life.” LifeRealitySpiritualityUniverseIllusionDetachmentMaya Author:Shunya
“When a schizophrenic patient sees things that others don’t see, he at least knows that his mind is playing with him. But your hallucinations, which you call reality. are being validated and strengthened by everything and everyone around you.” MindRealitySpiritualityBuddhismIllusionHinduismSchizophreniaHallucinationSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“In a factory production line, two products are moving on conveyor belts. One is moving on a maze-like path, slipping from one belt to another. It says, “I am making choices and creating my own path.” The other is moving on straight path. It says, “I am doing nothing because this is all Maya.” Both are in illusion. Both are moving where the moving belts (Time) are taking them.” RealityChoicesDecisionDestinyIllusionControlAstrology Author:Shunya
“Normally, the dream world is the bathroom Whatever impurities you pick up in waking state get cleaned in the dreams. It’s a painful abnormality if your dreams are coming true later in reality (impurities of bathroom coming into home). Then there is a new normal when there is no distinction between home and bathroom (Reality and dreams mixing with each other).” MindSoulRealitySleepDreamsDream Interpretation Author:Shunya
“A man left home in morning with 1 Rupee. He gambled with it and made millions. Then lost them all. He returned home in evening empty handed. His wife is clueless why loss of just 1 Rupee has drowned his husband in so much depression that he is not speaking a word. This is the illusion or Maya.” RealityTruthBuddhismHinduismAdvaitaVedantaMaya Author:Shunya
“Things outside are just a projection from the DVD playing inside you. The time you invest for knowing your inner self will pay dividends outside.” RealityBuddhismIllusionHinduismAdvaitaInner SelfVedanta Author:Shunya
“Two paths to realize your divine powers: If you’re introvert, meditate. (Be so alone that you let go of your own company too.) If you’re extrovert, serve. (Lose yourself while being with others.)” RealityTruthMeditationInner PeaceAloneService Author:Shunya
“Two TV sets are kept in front of each other, each tuned to a different channel. The presenter in one TV says, “How are you?” Then the presenter in other TV says, “I am fine.” This is a coincidence, not communication. People are TV sets tuned to their own unique channel. Communication is an illusion. This illusion breaks if you are in relationship with someone who is “very hard to communicate with.” Otherwise you keep living in the illusion your whole life.” PhilosophyRealityTruthSpiritualityCommunicationIllusion Author:Shunya
“Right now you are in a scene in which the main character is reading these words. In the next moment, you may enter into some far away scene (Imagination). After sleeping, you move through many random scenes (Dreaming). So, you are not a fixed thing which enters in the body at birth and moves out at death. You are a thing which moves constantly from one scene to another, from one character to another.” SoulSelfPhilosophyRealitySpiritualityImaginationDreamsBuddhismReal Self Author:Shunya
“Nobody can understand your pain, Even your future self will not understand the pain you are going through in the present. The memory of pain or description of pain is like a painful movie scene while the pain in the present is hard reality.” LifeRealityPainPastSpiritualityPsychologyBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Nobody is listening to you. Your dialogue is just a cue for them to say their dialogue, and act their part. If everyone plays their part well, you feel that it’s all real. Be grateful to the bad actors who ruined this illusion for you and turned you inward.” WisdomRealitySpiritualityCommunicationHeartbreakIllusionNothingness Author:Shunya
“Stand before a mirror, ignore your reflection and try to see the whole mirror. It’s difficult. God stands before you like a huge mirror but you only see your own reflection, your own tiny world.” MindSoulGodRealitySpiritualityBuddhismIllusionHinduism Author:Shunya
“Suppose 10 different sculpture artists are thinking about what they are going to sculpt next. If you show them a rough rock, they won't see rock; they will see what they are thinking of carving from it. Similarly, the universe is just a rough rock. Different souls see different things in it.” PhilosophyWisdomRealitySpiritualityUniverse Author:Shunya
“If you like a wild horse, you have to let it be in the wild. If you bring it to your stable, it becomes a domesticated horse. It loses all its essence. You like things and people. You try to make them your own. After too much struggle, when they become your own, they lose their essence. Then you like new things and the endless circle continues...” RealityNatureIllusionDesiresMinimalismFulfilmentPossessions Author:Shunya
“When we are telling something about others, we are telling a lot about ourselves too. "The Sun rises and sets each day." This sounds like a statement about the Sun. But it is actually a statement about us, about our planet. It tells that we and our planet is moving, not the Sun.” RealityTruthJudgingPerspectiveIllusionBeliefsAbsoluteRelativityOpinions Author:Shunya
“Logic is like a mouse. It can cut through anything. Ganesha is the Lord of inward logic (Vitarka). Seekers on the path of knowledge must use the mouse to cut through their own illusion (like sages) instead of trying to cut through the universe (like western scientists).” RealityTruthLogicHinduismVedantaHinduGaneshaHindu Mythology Author:Shunya
“We think and speak in a certain language. So language seems to be a natural thing. It is not! It's a set of symbols decided by the society. It's the operating system of society just like windows or android. Silence (no speech, no thought) is the only way to log out of society and log in to the universe.” LifeRealityLanguageExistenceSocietyThoughtsSymbolsSpirituality Vs Religion Author:Shunya
“Things coming into your sight are coming from nothingness and things going out of your sight are going into nothingness.” RealitySpiritualityImaginationNothingness Author:Shunya
“While you are in a dream, everything seems real. If dreams are just a projection of your mind, this world is also a projection of your mind. The people around you are not real. Competing with them is like competing with your own shadow.” PhilosophyDreamRealitySpiritualityIllusionShadow Author:Shunya
“If your eyes can see something, is it real? If all your five senses confirm it, is it real? If five billion sets of senses (people) confirm it, is it real? If a holy book confirms it, is it real? It's a hide and seek game. The only reality is hiding behind illusions which are confirming each other as real.” PhilosophyWisdomRealityUniverseKnowledgeIllusion Author:Shunya
“After a point you have to lose your ideas about gods to meet real gods, you have to lose spiritual knowledge to find the soul, you have to lose everything that can be lost to find that which can't be lost.” SoulWisdomRealityReligionSpiritualityKnowledge Author:Shunya
“Suppose you are in your room alone and somebody walks in. Your behaviour changes depending on who is with you in the scene. When we are with others, we are playing different roles. When we are alone, we are preparing, rehearsing and thinking about the roles. We have forgotten who we really are!” LifeWisdomRealityKnowledgeRolesAloneBehaviour Author:Shunya
“Entire internet is a digital copy of the world. Don't confuse it with the world. Similarly, thoughts and words are just a linguistic copy of the world. Don't confuse them with the world.” RealityLanguageBuddhismInternetThoughtsWordsHinduismNo Thought Author:Shunya
“Child of someone, friend of someone, employee of someone, lover of something and hater of something... You identify yourself always in relation to someone or something. You are like a car tethered to other cars from all directions, which in turn are tethered to other cars. Result is stress, dilemmas, conflicts.” SoulSelfRealityRelationshipIdentityEgoAwakeningSearch Author:Shunya
“We see what our mind shows us, nothing less, nothing more. If there is a camel out there but our mind decides to show it as cow, we will see cow, not camel. We don't know what is actually out there. It maybe God Himself. But our limited mind shows us limited things.” MindRealityBuddhismIllusionHinduismVedanta Author:Shunya