“If you don't try to define Him like scholars do, if you don't reduce Him to a mere concept, any path can lead you to Him. Even thieves and decoits can find a sharp exit on their path and merge with Him.” GodReligionSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismDivine Path Author:Shunya
“Once you start seeing Paramatma (Supreme Soul) in everyone, even those who try to harm you end up helping you.” BuddhismHinduismVedantaHinduHindu MythologyParamatma Author:Shunya
“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
“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
“Just as different games are available on android, different realities are available in the universe.” RealitySpiritualityBuddhismHinduismQuantum PhysicsParallel Universes 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“As your soul becomes more and more aware, magical coincidences start happening: Things that happen in your life seem related to thoughts that occur in your mind. Ultimately you realize that you are the creator of your own reality.” MindSoulWisdomRealitySpiritualityBuddhism Author:Shunya
“Suppose a Sun many times brighter than our Sun comes up in the sky. After we get used to its light, it goes away. Then our Sun will feel like moon to us and what we call as “light” will seem like darkness. So light and darkness are relative terms. Darkness is just less light.” LightDarknessBuddhismZenHinduismDualityRelativityNo Thought Author:Shunya
“To know the path of supreme truth, young Shani Deva first went to the Light. When the Light refused to tell the path, he went to the Darkness. There he discovered his own inner light which showed him the path. Light and darkness both are in your mind. When you accept both or reject both, you discover your own inner light which comes from the soul.” MindSoulLightSpiritualityDarknessBuddhismHinduismDualityInner Light Author:Shunya
“When it's dark and you are alone, you start humming or create some other distraction to avoid fear. Who creates fear and then offers distraction? Us Both are done by your mind to stop you from meeting your true self. Mind plays both side of the game.” MindWisdomTruthSpiritualityFearDarknessPsychologyBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Opposite of love is attachment, not hate. Hate is an explicit form of attachment. Love takes you towards freedom, attachment binds you more and more.” LoveHateSpiritualityFreedomBuddhismLiberationAttachmentHinduismTantra Author:Shunya
“A chemical may react with some chemicals and remain indifferent to others. Similarly we get attached to some people (positively or negatively) and remain indifferent to others. Attachment is not love. Love makes you realize that you are something more than an organism, more than a body-mind.” LoveHateSpiritualityBuddhismSelf RealizationAttachmentHinduismDivine Love Author:Shunya
“Love and hate are two forms of the same energy. As soon as you close the outlet of love for someone, the outlet of hate opens up. Both outlets have to be closed if you don't want to deplete your energy on someone.” LoveLifeHateEnergyBuddhismZenHinduismDuality Author:Shunya
“Turn off the sound and watch a slap scene in a movie. Even if the gap between hand and check remains one feet, sound effect makes you feel that slap is real. When the picture is incomplete, your mind fills in your own colours in the gaps. If you are madly in love with someone, you will believe their most absurd lies. If you hate someone, you won’t even believe absolute truths told by them.” LoveMindTruthHateSpiritualityPsychologyBuddhismLiesHinduism Author:Shunya
“The light of soul shines through eyes that shed tears of compassion.” LightSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismInner PowerShunya Author:Shunya
“Even while your body and mind are running, there is something (or 'nothing') inside you which is always at rest. You're that.” WisdomPeaceBuddhismHinduismShunya Author:Shunya
“You are soul and soul is beyond all existence. You are not thoughts; Thoughts are invisible and intangible but they are not beyond existence; They exist along with the rest of the matter and energy.” MindSoulEnergyPeaceBuddhismThoughtsHinduismAdvaita Author:Shunya
“A Guru and disciple were passing through a street where they saw a cow being harassed by barking dogs. Disciple said, "What has happened to this world? Peace loving people are being harassed by noisy people." Guru said, "Both cow and dogs are behaving as per their nature. I would worry about the world when cow also starts behaving like dogs in reaction.” LovePhilosophySpiritualityPeaceCompassionBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Your eyes are like two small glass windows. Who is sitting inside and looking through them?” PhilosophySpiritualityPeaceBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Since the beginning of Time, Human beings have been growing the vast crop of myths around the eternal flower of truth.” PhilosophyTruthPeaceBuddhismEnlightenmentEternityMythAwakeningHinduism Author:Shunya
“The ancients used to go to jungle to do Sadhana i.e. to face hardships, danger and uncertainly with nothing but faith. Now people want to escape to jungle for peace. If you want to do Sadhana, society is the new jungle. All kinds of animals are roaming here in human clothes.” PeaceSocietyBuddhismEnlightenmentHinduismAsceticism Author:Shunya
“Anything that occupies your mind is your occupation. For some people quarreling is an occupation. They fear losing it more than a job-goer fears losing job. Because emptiness of mind is scarier than emptiness of stomach.” SpiritualityPeaceRelationshipsSilencePsychologyBuddhismSolitudeMental HealthZenNoise Author:Shunya
“How satisfying it is to see a chef at work! Adding a bit of this, bit of that! If you do all little things with full awareness, you will also feel like a chef enjoying the process of cooking.” SpiritualityPeaceAwarenessBuddhismMindfulnessZen Author:Shunya
“You don't react to the sounds coming from waves of water. Then why do you react to the sounds coming from waves of five elements (human beings)?” SpiritualityPeacePerspectiveBuddhismAngerZenHinduism Author:Shunya
“Why there is so much violence and suffering in the world? This question burns in the hearts of all kind and peace loving people. But most people satisfy themselves with the readymade answers given by opinion makers, social activists, Karma theorists and so on. Prince Siddhartha Gautama went deeper to find answers and found the absolute truth.” SufferingPeaceViolenceBuddhismSocial JusticeMiseryActivismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Body-mind seems like a movie character and life becomes enjoyable like a movie when you (soul) slightly detach from body-mind. That detachment can't be forced. It happens like a ripe fruit detaching from tree. To become ripe, surrender and let the universe take you through certain life experiences.” PeaceBuddhismEnlightenmentAwakeningHinduismVedanta Author:Shunya
“When you see something, your mind rushes to put labels on it: table, chair, good, bad etc. Sacred space is a space where your mind doesn't feel need to label anything. It relaxes, allowing you to go inward. That space can be sea shore, forest, mountain, beloved's arms or a temple. For awakened ones, every inch is sacred.” ReligionPeaceBuddhismSacredHinduismTemple Author:Shunya
“If you take spirituality/religion as a classroom, the syllabus is infinite. There is no end to symbolism, concepts, explanations, definitions. But you have to let go of all this if you wish to experience that which can't be symbolized, conceptualized, explained or defined.” SpiritualityPeaceBuddhismOnenessHinduism Author:Shunya
“Look back at your life. It's like a river. It has made its path till now. It will make its path in future also. Don't fear. Keep flowing.” LifeInspirationalMotivationalTruthFearPeaceBuddhism Author:Shunya