“If the attempt to get rid of something is leading you towards more darkness, that thing has become your shadow. Just accept it. First it will stop bothering you, then it will stop affecting you, then it will stop existing for you.” LifeSpiritualityBuddhismIndifferenceAttachmentHinduism Author:Shunya
“People summon divine energy through love and trust but waste it immediately in hate and doubt. A devotee is someone who slowly cuts this wastage to zero.” ReligionFaithTrustDevotionHinduismHanumanLord Rama Author:Shunya
“A mysterious stair was discovered in a village. Some curious people went up the stairs but never returned. Villagers concluded that monsters are sitting up there devouring anybody who climbs up. In fact, it was a stair to heaven. Nobody wanted to return from there. When one or two people returned and told the truth, villagers called them agents of monsters who were trying to lure the villagers in the name of heaven. Your mind is a powerful machine. It can serve your doubts as well as your faith. It’s up to you how you use it.” ReligionFaithBeliefTrustHinduismPrejudices Author:Shunya
“Things go wrong with those who trust everyone except their own instincts, and with those who doubt everything except their own doubter mind.” LifeWisdomSpiritualityDoubtTrustHinduism Author:Shunya
“When two sides are accusing each other, it's very difficult to figure out the reality. Because reality is different for everyone. The difference is not just in mind. Things actually look different to different people. Two or more people can align or sync their realities if they trust each other. When trust is gone, their realities again become different. This is Samsara.” LifeWisdomBuddhismConflictWrongFightHinduismRightDualityAccusations Author:Shunya
“Mentally strong people are like a dam on a river. Life keeps on overwhelming them with burdens. If you're tired of being a dam, just let go! Water will find its way.” LifeStrengthBuddhismBurdenReliefProblemsHinduismLet Go Author:Shunya
“You were like raw gold. Somebody threw you into fire. You are molten gold now. You are in the middle of transformation. Come to me. I will cast you into a beautiful shape. That is the only way to forget the one who threw you into fire.” SpiritualityHeartbreakTransformationHinduism Author:Shunya
“Both pain and pleasure pull you deeper into the illusion of Maya (Space-Time). But voluntary pain (like climbing a hill to reach a temple) and conscious pleasure (Tantra sex) take you inward.” PainPleasureConsciousnessBuddhismHinduismTantra Author:Shunya
“Pain and pleasure are the same energy inside you. When it flows at a slow rate like sunlight in a morning winter, it's pleasure. When the flow rate goes beyond a threshold, it's pain.” LifePainSpiritualityEnergyPleasureBuddhismHinduismDuality Author:Shunya
“Mind creates division of dream and reality. To be free from this duality and merge with the one supreme truth, either realize that this so-called reality is also a dream or realize that the dreams are also a reality somewhere.” TruthImaginationOnenessHinduismNondualityDuality Author:Shunya
“You're hungry, you see food, and you get excited. You never question where did the hunger come from. You didn't sign up for this endless cycle of hunger and food, problem and solution, question and answer. You're the eternity.” PhilosophyRealitySpiritualityIllusionHinduismNondualityDualityShunya Author:Shunya
“You don't know God because you know too much 'about' Him. A baby knows his mother even though he knows nothing 'about' her.” KnowingBuddhismHinduismNot KnowingNothingnessShunya Author:Shunya
“Every time you feel sad, you become a little silent Now your mind has started associating silence with sadness. Be silent when you are happy. When mind starts associating silence with happiness, going into meditative silence becomes easier.” MindSilencePsychologySadnessBuddhismThoughtsZenHinduismNo Thought Author:Shunya
“A scientist is more doubtful of his theories than the science teacher who teaches those theories. A Guru is more doubtful of his words than his followers because he knows that everything except silence is a corruption of truth.” SilenceBuddhismAwakeningZenHinduismAbsolute Truth Author:Shunya
“There is a veil between you and God. Thoughts are like embroidery on that veil. People are doing more and more embroidery on your veil and making it more and more obscure.” GodSilenceBuddhismSolitudeThoughtsZenHinduism Author:Shunya
“If two deer meet in a jungle, they silently eat the grass or play. I am this... You did this... How dare you say that... All these arguments take place only when one of them is not a deer. And these arguments will reach no conclusion. They should either silently accept each other or silently walk away. Silence is the most natural thing in both the cases.” LifeSpiritualitySilenceBuddhismArgumentZenHinduismNon Violence Author:Shunya
“Peacock is dancing.” These words can’t show you the dance that I am seeing right now. They can only invoke your past memory when you had seen a peacock dancing. Words always keep you in the past or future. Only silence can let you enjoy the present.” MindLanguageSilenceBuddhismThoughtsZenHinduismNo Thought Author:Shunya
“When you say “Don’t judge”, you are judging those who judge. To say “Be Silent” to yourself, you have to break your silence. The thought of “being thoughtless” is there even when you are thoughtless. Spiritual truths can’t be practiced at mind level. You have to discover something deeper than the mind which is already non-judgemental, silent and thoughtless, Jo” SilenceJudgingBuddhismZenHinduismAdvaitaVedantaThoughtlessness Author:Shunya
“If materialistic world is noise, spirituality or religion is music. Most people just keep shuttling between noise and music. To discover the eternal silence, you have to realize that the music is just refined noise.” ReligionSpiritualitySilenceMeditationBuddhismZenHinduismNothingness Author:Shunya
“Talking softly when you are not sick, walking gently when you're not old, staying silent when you have words and so on... The energy you thus save lights your inner lamp and summons the higher powers.” WisdomSpiritualityEnergyPeaceSilenceBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Someone who is learning driving takes joy in the knowledge of driving. Someone who is on a long drive takes joy in the soulful experience of driving. Don't remain stuck in the knowledge. You are here for the experience.” JoySilenceKnowledgeBuddhismExperienceWordsHinduism Author:Shunya
“Some people are like echo. They will always have the last word in an argument, Even if you tell them that they are like echo, they will retort. Finally you have to settle for silence. Not just some people but the entire Space-Time is an echo chamber of duality. When you realize this, you settle for the eternal silence.” SoulSilenceBuddhismEnlightenmentEternityAwakeningHinduismAdvaitaDuality Author:Shunya
“This world is like an endless TV serial. If you keep discussing the characters and plots, you will never find the one who is watching this from the seat of eternity.” SoulGodBuddhismEternityHinduism Author:Shunya
“Mind is like a blackboard-cum-door behind which there is a library of infinite knowldge. What is written on the blackboard is actually a distraction that doesn't let you see the door.” MindSoulWisdomSpiritualityKnowledgeHinduismNo Mind Author:Shunya
“There are a hundred layers of dust and you are saying, 'This layer is mind, this layer is soul. I want to remove this and save this.' No. All of it is mind. All of it has to go. You have to go. What will remain is the divine you.” MindSoulSpiritualityDivineBuddhismHinduismDualityAdvaitavad Author:Shunya
“God passes by you every moment. You can't see Him because you are walking around with a huge checklist of how He should be. Drop your judgemental mind. Drop yourself and you shall arise with His light shining through you.” MindSoulGodGood And EvilHinduismDualityJudgmental Mind Author:Shunya
“The names you have given to everything are not just names. They are the very fabric of the curtain which is separating you from God.” MindSoulGodSpiritualityHinduismNothingness Author:Shunya
“When Maya (external world) gives you (the soul) a rose (good or bad experience), you feel indebted (Karmic Debt). You feel bound to give her company. When you realize that the Maya will go on even when you are not with her, you will get the courage to do the divine break-up. You will get liberation.” SoulMysticismHinduismMysticEsoteric Author:Shunya
“If you identify yourself as this clay lamp, your soul becomes rooted to one place. If you identify as the flame, your soul can switch through thousands of flames burning all over the world.” SoulMysticismHinduismOccultTantraKundalini Author:Shunya
“Imagine that a scientist creates a human clone in a lab based on the genes of a real man called Raghu. It looks exactly like Raghu. Through virtual reality (VR), its mind is fed with experiences and memories of Raghu so that now it believes that it is Raghu. Now both of them -Raghu and the clone - behave exactly the same way. They cry on same things, laugh on same things. How would you find out which one of them has a soul?” MindSoulPhilosophyReligionSpiritualityHinduismVedanta Author:Shunya
“You have trapped your soul inside the boundaries set by your mind. Body-mind are just instruments. There are a thousand instruments of same shape and size. Let your soul choose one freely.” MindSoulSpiritualityMysticismHinduismOccult Author:Shunya
“Mind can't go inward. It can only go in opposite direction- from pleasure to pain, from chaos to discipline.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNondualityAdvaitaVedanta Author:Shunya
“Mind can't go inward. It can only go in opposite direction- from pleasure to pain, from chaos to discipline. While trying to find the path which is beyond all opposites, you will realize that you are not mind.” MindSoulBuddhismHinduismNondualityVedanta Author:Shunya
“Not taking an action is also an action. Not making a choice is also a choice. Body-mind can't escape from action. But if your action or inaction is guided by the awareness of your soul and silence of your inner self, it will take you out of the mess.” SoulActionSpiritualityBuddhismKarmaZenHinduism Author:Shunya
“Suppose you have a weighing scale that has maximum weighing limit of 10kg. If I put things below 10 kg on it, it will measure them correctly. If I put an 11kg thing, it will measure it incorrectly as 10 kg. When you try to describe things that are beyond your limit, you end up describing yourself and your own limits.” MindSoulPhilosophyGodPsychologyMysticismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Seekers get out of almost all layers of division, duality and two-ness. But their ego keeps them stuck in the duality of human and non-human, living being and non-living being. They can't see everything as one. They speak big words about soul, gods and scriptures but have no experience of godliness.” SoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismDuality Author:Shunya
“Your body-mind has a past, not you. You are eternal.” SoulPastSpiritualSpiritualityBuddhismEternityHinduismHigher Self Author:Shunya
“Human ego and drunk poets have ruined the powerful concept of soul and turned it into a flowery notion. Your character (body-mind) can function on its own. Soul doesn't do anything. It just witnesses what the character does. The character would go on as per its script even if your soul weren't here to witness it.” SoulDeathSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismFreewill Author:Shunya
“When babies fall asleep at one place but wake up at another place, they don’t even feel surprised. They know that their mother must have shifted them during sleep. If something similar happens to you, you will freak out. This attachment to the body and the surroundings is the reason your higher self is not able to shift you to better scenes in life.” MindSoulFreedomBuddhismHinduismDetachmentHigher SelfFreewill Author:Shunya
“Phases in spiritual journey: First you are a fire (Fire to seek the truth). Then you turn into ash (Earth) and become compassionate towards everything like mother Earth. Then ash flows into water. You want to wash away all the darkness inside and outside you. Then water evaporates and becomes air. Your notions about dark and light, good and bad evaporate. Then the trickiest part is to realize the Shunya or nothingness. Air can’t become Shunya. Everything including air is inside Shunya.” SoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNothingnessShunyaFive Elements Author:Shunya
“In cricket fielding, if catch comes right in your hand, there is no fun. You enjoy the most when you have to dive to catch the ball. This is what playfulness is all about. Difference between being a servant of someone and surrendering to someone is playfulness. Don’t make things too easy in your relationship with your spouse or children or gods. Keep the playfulness alive.” MindSoulSpiritualityRelationshipsBuddhismSurrenderDevotionHinduismPlayfulness Author:Shunya
“Draw some dashes on a paper. Now mentally try to create a line by joining two of more dashes. Did you do it? Where is the line you just created? It’s in your mind. It has no existence except in your mind. The relationship between you and the line you just created is same as the relationship between the supreme soul (Paramaatma) and soul. The souls have no separate existence.” SoulOnenessHinduismAdvaitaVedantaNon Duality Author:Shunya
“A laptop is a good example of what this universe is all about. When it is folded, it is nothing. There is no movement and no visuals. When you unfold it, two parts emerge: the keyboard part and the screen part. The screen part is the outer world or the Existence. That is where your body exists. The keyboard part is inner world or the non-Existence. That is where your soul (non-)exists. A soul often gets so attached to the visuals on screen that it forgets about the keyboard or the inner world.” SoulSpiritualityHinduismAdvaitaInner WorldNon DualityDualism Author:Shunya
“Leftist, Rightist, Centrist - Let your mind be what it wants to be. Just don’t lose the awareness that you are a soul and you have the freewill to detach from this mind.” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityBuddhismIdeologyHinduism Author:Shunya
“Imagine that you are watching a movie which is so engaging that you forget yourself. Suppose that the movie is not 3 hours long but millions of years long. Of course, a human protagonist can’t have such a long story. So, the protagonist of the movie is someone who changes forms from human to cow to monkey to tree to dog to cat and so on... Then who are you and who is the protagonist of the movie? Aren’t you the eternal power watching your own story unfold before you?” SoulPhilosophySpiritualityBuddhismHinduismSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“Search the most weird thing on Google. You will find some people somewhere doing that thing. Your mind is even more advanced than Google. Whatever you want to believe, it can churn out logic to support that. Look at human history, most brilliant minds have died debating over their beliefs and no common conclusion has been reached so far. And it will never be reached. Mind is tricky machine that can complete any task that you assign it Give it the task of dissolving itself and it will dissolve itself with its own logic. Then you can experience the oneness - the Paramatma.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNo Thought Author:Shunya
“A snake charmer was travelling in a bus. He asked for 21 tickets from bus conductor. On being asked “why”, he replied, “Whenever I open my basket and bring out the snake, 20 people also come out to see it. So I have 20 people in my basket.” That should be the mindset of a meditator. Enjoy this world as long as you want but when you want to meditate, you should be able to realize that all the people and things around you are all in your head. You should be able to wrap it all up and put it back in the basket.” SoulSpiritualityMeditationBuddhismMindfulnessHinduism Author:Shunya
“Imagine you wake up one morning and see a new mole on your chin. You will freak out. This is called Relative Change - something was not there yesterday but it is there today. Now suppose that along with the new mole, somebody installs some past memories about that mole in your mind. You will not notice the change because the memories will make you believe that it was already there. This is called Absolute Change. You can only detect change, not absolute change. So a god or goddess can live in your house as your family member and you would not even notice them because of the memories they install in your mind.” SoulPhilosophyTimeSpiritualityChangeMysteryMysticismHinduism Author:Shunya
“If your one Rupee is pending with a shopkeeper, you would go to that shop again even if you have to spend 10 Rupees fuel. Same thing happens in relationships. If you have invested a few precious moments in someone, it becomes very difficult to leave. This is how Maya (Space-Time) keeps a soul attached birth after birth.” MindSoulRelationshipsPsychologyAttachmentHinduism Author:Shunya
“You are travelling in a vehicle. Another vehicle is moving alongside yours. Sometimes your vehicle is ahead, sometimes that vehicle is ahead. Then comes the separation. That vehicle moves to a different route. You feel slightly heartbroken even though you didn’t even see who the occupants of that vehicle were. Why? Because you are a soul. You don’t have to stay attached to just your own body. You can get attached to any other entity and feel its emotions. When you are travelling in a vehicle, your soul starts feeling emotions of your vehicle. Your vehicle feels heartbroken, not you.” MindSoulSelfSpiritualityPsychologyBuddhismHinduismInner Self Author:Shunya