“You don't value things that easily come to you. You value things that are hard to get. You keep running after them and complain, "Why are things I desire hard to get?” LifeMindSpiritualityStrugglePsychologyBuddhismParadoxHinduism Author:Shunya
“A man called Mr. Mind died. His wife Mrs. Soul was in the process of transferring all his property papers in her name. Then she came across his death certificate. She said to her lawyer, “I want all his papers in my name and this paper also belongs to him. Transfer it in my name.” Lawyer did that. Now she was also legally dead! She could no longer claim her husband’s properties. She was absolutely nothing now. This is the last step in spiritual journey. The concept of soul has to die so that only the soul remains. The concept belongs to the mind. If you don’t let go of it, you are still attached to the mind.” MindSoulSpiritualityHinduismVedantaNon Duality Author:Shunya
“Mind is like a wild horse that either runs after something or runs away from something. You are not the mind. You are the rider sitting still.” MindSoulSpiritualityPeaceHinduismStillnessDualityVedanta Author:Shunya
“Your mind is like a bell hanging outside a temple. It reacts to everything and gives sounds like “That is wrong” “That is right” “I like it” “I disagree.” Let it ring. Let it react. Leave it where it is and go inside the temple. Detach from the mind to enter your inner temple.” MindSoulReligionSpiritualityBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Answers are just food for mind. Like an animal may someday cross the boundaries of jungle in search of food, you might cross the boundaries of mind in search of answers. The supreme truth is not an answer but you may find Him in search of answers.” MindSpiritualityAnswersBuddhismSeekingHinduismInner JourneySeeker Author:Shunya
“Your body is like a kite. The space around you is the turbulent sky through which it is fluttering It is going where the wind of thoughts takes it. Leave this kite here. Don’t fight with the wind either. Just descend deep inside you and find your inner ground. Get hold of the string of awareness. It’s a magical string. You just have to watch the kite “and it will get out of the turbulent sky.” MindSoulPhilosophySpiritualityAwarenessBuddhismThoughtsAwakeningHinduism Author:Shunya
“There is no point in reading anything until your mind is fully clean and receptive. Mind’s tendency is to interpret things the way it suits you, the way it strengthens your existing beliefs.” MindWisdomSpiritualityBeliefKnowledgePsychologyHinduismReceptivity Author:Shunya
“Nobody knows who you truly are. From your milkman to your spouse, everyone has a different image of you. You keep accepting, rejecting. correcting and enhancing those images. Even you don’t know who you are. You are searching for yourself.” MindSoulSpiritualityIdentityBuddhismEgoHinduismSearchSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“If a woman who has grown up alone in a far off island gets pregnant, she might think that she has got a fatal disease which is making her stomach swell. Your pain and discomfort is intolerable to you because you don't know that you are pregnant with a beautiful destiny.” MindPainSpiritualityOpportunityPerspectiveBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Pick any movie that you had watched 10 years ago. If you watch it now, you will understand it in a completely different way. Same goes for scriptures. Don’t quote holy books to justify your prejudices. You will start getting their true essence only when you have grown up spiritually.” LifeMindReligionSpiritualityPsychologyHinduism Author:Shunya
“It's easy for a preacher to say 'Let Go'. Imagine a king who wants to let go of his power because it's giving him nothing but stress and anxiety. If he lets go of it, his enemies will kill him. He has to first let go of his own body-mind. Then right circumstances will form and his body-mind will be able let go of power safely. You have to let go of things spiritually before you can let go of them physically.” SpiritualityBuddhismLetting GoAnxietyStressHinduism Author:Shunya
“You are suffering from yourself. Others are just a symptom.” LifePainSufferingBuddhismEgoMiseryKarmaHinduism Author:Shunya
“Wounds only attract flies. Pain attracts more dark and negative energies. But deep inside you, the sun of humility rises. Dwell there as long as you can. Because that’s where prayer happens. That’s where the divine energies come and bring about a miraculous healing.” LifePainReligionSufferingHumilityDivineWoundsHinduism Author:Shunya
“As long as you have some power left in you, you will use it to complain, to cry, to spin logic, to harm your body. When you become completely powerless and helpless, you will discover the infinite power in you.” GodPainSpiritualityInfiniteHinduismHelplessness Author:Shunya
“Know yourself and you will know God. Are you a body, a mind, a soul or something else or nothing? Can you be anything you want to be or you are already everything you want to be?” SelfGodHinduismInner SelfVedantaWho Am I Author:Shunya
“A student asks, "Sir, if you're enlightened, why are you stuck in this body?" Guru replies, "This body is a drop in the ocean. I am the ocean, not a drop. Since you identify yourself as a drop, you only see drops around you.” SelfPhilosophySpiritualityEnlightenmentAwakeningHinduismNondualityAdvaitavad Author:Shunya
“Imagine people sitting around fire under a starry sky and wondering who we are and where we have come from. But instead we sit in drawing rooms and make statements: "I am so and so, my son is so and so, my god is so and so, my holy book is so and so." If you have already assumed an identity, how will you know who you really are?” SelfPhilosophySpiritualityWonderBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“All your past Karma get cleaned in just one moment of realization, the realization that you are not the doer. You didn’t do any of it. You just got attached to the doer; you just copied the doer’s Karma on your Pen Drive. The whole data can be cleaned in an instant of realization.” SpiritualitySinBuddhismEnlightenmentKarmaRealizationProblemsHinduism Author:Shunya
“The river that washes all your sins is flowing inside you. Every time you go inward and take a dip into the river of nothingness, a new version of you emerges out of it.” SpiritSinDestinyVirtueSelf LoveKarmaDivinityHinduismNothingness Author:Shunya
“If you have perpetual disagreement with your family member, no matter where the conversation starts, it will end at the same conflicting point. It’s so repetitive that you exactly know their response even before they say it. If that is so, why not do it all in your head? Say both your side and their side of argument in your own head while watching them silently. It will become like a prayer. At the end you will not DEMAND them to change. You will just wish. And wishes do get fulfilled.” PeaceRelationshipsBuddhismArgumentInner PeaceHinduism Author:Shunya
“To get godly powers, you must have godly qualities. For human mind, the easiest godly quality to acquire is 'Infinite Patience'. That means, you should be able to wait infinitely for the results. In other words, you should not expect results, Those who can wait infinitely get it instantly.” PhilosophySpiritualityBuddhismPatienceHinduismExpectationDivine PowerInner Power Author:Shunya
“Fandom is about group activities. Devotion is personal. The relationship between deity and devotee is one-to-one. Devotee gives bath to deity, clothes Him, feeds Him and so on. Your Ganesha is only yours. My Ganesha is only mine. As many devotees, as many Ganesha s.” SpiritualityDevotionHinduismDevoteeBhakti Author:Shunya
“God is in my heart.' -- This has become the most common excuse to avoid spiritual journey. If He were in your heart, you would be swept over by feelings and emotions. Instead thoughts and opinions are crawling all over you.” ReligionSpiritualityBuddhismThoughtsEmotionsDevotionHinduism Author:Shunya
“Your path can be a mixture of logic and devotion but if logic is more powerful than devotion, it becomes a dangerous cocktail. Then your logic can justify anything as devotional. People taking drugs in the name of Shiva and so on...” DevotionHinduismHinduShiva Author:Shunya
“Mind uses fancy phrases such as 'love' or 'unconditional' love to glorify its cravings. If you have indeed found the well of unconditional love inside you, you have found God.” LoveGodDevotionUnconditional LoveHinduismDivine Love Author:Shunya
“Devotional songs were once written and sung by saints. Now it's being done my marijuana addicts, juvenile eye-candies, delusional fancy dress wearers and so on. Bhakti movement has come full circle.” IndiaDevotionHinduismBhakti YogaBhakti Author:Shunya
“Juvenile lover’s mind imagines, “The one I love is in danger. I go and save her. She falls in love with me.” The beginner devotee’s mind imagines, “Some lowlife disrespects my deity. My deity is in danger. I go and fight for my deity. He blesses me.” ReligionFaithBeliefDevotionHinduismDogmaFanaticism Author:Shunya
“Dear God, what can I offer you? I brought these flowers, But all plants are yours, so are the flowers. What is mine to give? My eyes have filled with tears. But these eyes are yours, so are the tears. I have nothing to offer except my gratitude.” GodReligionPrayerGratitudeDevotionHinduism Author:Shunya
“When true surrender happens (through supreme knowledge or devotion), you become brush in the hands of the supreme painter, and He turns your mistakes into masterpieces.” ReligionFaithBuddhismSurrenderDevotionHinduism Author:Shunya
“On the path of devotion, the relationship between the devotee and deity is personal and unique. Your father’s Hanuman can be different from your Hanuman. Maybe his Hanuman doesn’t allow him to cut nails on Tuesday, your Hanuman might allow. The devotee assigns characteristics to the deity out of love. There are as many deities as there are devotees.” FaithDevotionHinduismHinduHanuman Author:Shunya
“Meera loved her deity so much that she would see Him in everyone. When you see a poor beggar suffering, you may get angry at the society or God but Meera would give him food and say, “That is my deity doing drama to invoke feeling of compassion in me and to make me feel like a giver.” LoveLifeFaithDevotionHinduismHinduBhakti Author:Shunya
“A leaf fell from the tree, trembled with fear, and prayed, “Cod, stitch me back to the tree.” God didn’t seem to listen. So it befriended air, which took it far away from the tree. Another leaf accepted the fall without fear. It turned into compost and entered back in the roots of the tree. It rose through the tree and became a new leaf in next season. It got “stitched” back to the tree!” GodReligionFaithSpiritualityFearAcceptanceHinduism Author:Shunya
“Only your conscious being is eternally yours. Everything else is bonus. The loss or gain is happening from the bonus.” UniverseLossConsciousnessBuddhismEternityHinduismGain Author:Shunya
“There is a super interesting theory of evolution: Human beings didn't evolve from apes. They evolved from thoughts. Vedas are the original and purest thoughts that existed before human beings. Thoughts use human beings to evolve themselves. Human beings don't use thoughts.” PhilosophyPsychologyEvolutionThoughtsHinduismVedas Author:Shunya
“All emotions and feelings are tasty if they are drank and digested. They turn nasty because we keep chewing them with the teeth of reasoning and thought.” FeelingsRelationshipsBuddhismThoughtsEmotionsReasoningHinduismNo Thought Author:Shunya
“Suppose you're about to start playing a game. Somebody comes and says, "You're going to play a game." Then if you play, you're proving them right. If you don't play, you are proving them wrong. It no longer remains your game. It becomes all about them. This is how thoughts tie you down. This is how Maya binds the soul.” LifeSpiritualityBuddhismThoughtsHinduismVedanta Author:Shunya
“All processes in nature create waste but nature takes care of the waste too. The thought process is man-made. The waste it creates is like plastic. Religions all over the world have turned human mind into a factory of creating pious thoughts. The waste it creates is immense and dirty. People try to burn it with the fire of hatred, riots, wars and so on... True religion is about discovering the zone of no thought.” ReligionBuddhismMoralityThoughtsHatredHinduismVirtuesRiotsNo Thought Author:Shunya
“There is difference between knowing something and knowing "about" something. To know tea, you have to drink it. To know "about" it, you can google information and write essays or books on it. Tragedy is that most people just want to know "about" God. Those who dare to jump from the boat of knowledge and dive into nothingness are very very few.” GodWisdomSpiritualityLanguageKnowledgeBuddhismThoughtsWordsHinduism Author:Shunya
“Your questions are useless if your mind makes them as easily as a bubble-blower makes bubbles. A question should burn like fire. It should take you to a journey.” TruthAnswersBuddhismCuriosityHinduismQuestionsSpiritual Journey Author:Shunya
“There are trillions of bacteria living in your body. As compared to planet Earth, your body is just a bacteria. As compared to the galaxy. the Earth is just a bacteria. Only the experiences are real for the soul. The matter and thoughts are just props to create the experience.” LifeSoulPhilosophySpiritualityUniverseHinduismExperiencesHindu Author:Shunya
“If you uncover yourself and find who you are, the universe will also uncover itself before you, If you try to forcefully uncover the universe without uncovering yourself, you will meet endless layers after layers of planets, stars, galaxies, black holes, dark matter and what not!” PhilosophyWisdomReligionSpiritualityUniverseMeditationCuriosityHinduismInner Self Author:Shunya
“You have been taught things only from human perspective. To be holy, you must have holistic perspective. You must see things from other perspectives. For example: A Mango tree does business with human beings. It covers its seeds with sweet pulp and says, “My seeds can’t grow under my shade. So please take my seeds away from me. As your service fee, you can have the pulp.” WisdomSpiritualityUniverseWonderPerspectiveBuddhismHinduismBroad Mindedness Author:Shunya
“Two things happen at the same time: In inner world, your soul starts surrendering to the supreme soul (Paramatma]. In outer world, a love affair starts between your body-mind and the rest of the universe. And the universe loves like no lover ever can.” GodReligionFaithSpiritualityUniverseSurrenderHinduism Author:Shunya
“Suppose that the universe has a battery. If you take out the battery, universe becomes non existent. But then the battery will exist! Both the battery and the universe can’t be non-existent. When one is in existence, the other is in non-existence. This absolute combination is known by many names: Shiva-Shakti, Shunya-Srishti, Pure Feminine-Pure Masculine.” PhilosophyUniverseExistenceBuddhismHinduismAdvaitaDualityHindu Author:Shunya
“You have the power to sit in the present moment like the king/queen of the universe and watch the magical show being performed for you by everything and everyone, including the body-mind that you call yours.” SoulTimeSpiritualityUniverseEternityPresent MomentHinduismSupreme Soul Author:Shunya
“Universe can be imagined as a huge residential building. The view is different from different floors and apartments. Humanity is just one floor. A belief system is just one apartment on this floor. Free yourself from self-imposed limits. Whole building is yours!” TruthFaithUniverseBeliefPerspectiveBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“The whole world is a family.” It has become a moralistic phrase. Ancient Indian sages had designed it as a powerful thought experiment: Imagine that whole world is a small family. That family is living alone, surrounded by infinite dark space in which countless planets and suns and galaxies are floating.” PhilosophyReligionSpiritualityUniverseBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“Young Shani Deva was extremely attached to his mother. She became fatally Ill. To get a cure for her, he decided to climb mount Kailash and meet the supreme God. To climb higher and higher, he had to let go of all his baggages, including the baggage of attachment to mother. Then two things happened at the same time: God met him and his mother got cured. Attachment harms our loved ones, love heals them.” LoveGodUniverseBuddhismAttachmentHinduismLet Go Author:Shunya
“Nothingness is the source of everything. But if you want to take an apple out of it, so many other things will come out along with apple: The farmer who produced it, the farm, the seed shop, farmer’s family and ancestors... a whole new universe will come out with apple.” UniverseBuddhismHinduismNothingnessAdvaitaVedantaShunya Author:Shunya
“All your spiritual knowledge will just remain a theory until you go in full solitude. How long will you keep talking to your shadows (people around you)?” ReligionSpiritualitySolitudeMiracleHinduismVedanta Author:Shunya