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“Tea made for one person has rare herbs in it. Tea made for a group has lots of sugar in it. Those who go alone on spiritual journey get the rare treasure of knowledge. Those who join a group just sing sweet glories of ancient knowledge, instead of getting the actual knowledge.”

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“It’s very painful when circumstances don’t allow you to act as per your nature. It may force you to change your nature. If you keep shame, guilt, regret etc. away, this change can be a transformation of caterpillar into butterfly.”

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“Any decision you take can have good and bad consequences. (No decision is also a decision.) If you’re ready to accept the consequences, it will turn out to be good decision. Because action and its consequences make the whole circle. Acceptance of the whole brings blessings of the whole (The Supreme Power).”

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“Don't let them rob your feminine in the name of feminism. Amputation is not a cure of the wound.”

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“Unique things can't be compared. Human beings discard their uniqueness and try to become like each other so that they can compare with each other. Comparison creates feeling of being superior or inferior, weak or powerful. Human being crave both. Feeling weak gives a different kind of release than feeling powerful.”

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“There is a circus going around you. If you enjoy it as an audience, you can go to your inner home anytime you want. If you get involved in the act, they will sign you up as a performer for lifetime.”

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“A door can either free you or imprison you. Every single thing is like a door. For some people even sex became door of liberation and for some even holy books became door of imprisonment.”

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“Arjuna quotes old scriptures to support his conclusions and his “I’. Krishna had to say Geeta to dissolve his “I” so that he could just be an instrument. Now people quote Geeta to support their conclusions and their “I”.”

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“Laws of Karma dictate one person to give and other person to receive. The receiver is in no way inferior to the giver.”

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“When Bhagwadgeeta was spoken, it was pure and stinging truth. Even Arjuna couldn't digest it until Lord Krishna showed His universal-form. Generation after generation, human beings have diluted it so much that it doesn't sting anymore. It has become like water. Now everyone can give their own colour and flavour to it.”

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“A child may burn his lips with hot milk because he is drinking it only for the sugar mixed in it. If you love the hot beverage wholly and fully, it won't burn you. The heat itself will become a soul-lifting ingredient.”

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“Give yourself fully to something - be it ritual or logic, a god or human, passion or asceticism. Don't save even a bit of yourself otherwise the magic won't happen.”

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“Pick any person in the world and know them closely. You will discover their sad story. Everyone feels victimized in some way or the other. We all are victims of a collective illusion but we keep pointing fingers at each other.”

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“You are sitting on a computer in the projector cabin of a unique cinema hall in which the screen is not made up of white cloth. Instead, there is a big transparent room full of white liquid. You click on a movie file on your computer, the projector starts throwing light on the room of white liquid, real characters start emerging from the white liquid. You get attached to the characters. You start feeling their pain and pleasures. That room of white liquid is Space-Time or Maya. You are a soul sitting on the computer. The movie file is Karma-Desires. If you don’t like the movie, you can change it and play a better movie.”

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“The supreme knowledge is fatal. It kills your ego. Ego loves ancient books because it has developed immunity against them.”

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“I am Paramatma, the supreme soul Playing the role of a spiritual seeker, I am searching myself. Playing the role of an atheist, I deny my existence. Playing the role of a spiritual activist, I think that I am enlightened and others are ignorant. Playing the role of an ignorant, I want to get enlightened. I am in all the roles. In the role of somebody who will read these words, I will now think why I am playing all these roles?”

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“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.”

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“Once you start seeing Paramatma (Supreme Soul) in everyone, even those who try to harm you end up helping you.”

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“Suppose your name is Paramatma and you are watching a movie. The character suddenly starts calling your name! He wants to come out of the screen and meet you. What would you suggest him? You'd say, "Watch your character like I am watching you. Soon you will realize that you are sitting beside me. Or perhaps, you are me!”

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“When the gods and demons were fighting, Mahadeva didn’t say that gods are right and demons are wrong. A neutral and unprejudiced power was established in the form of Shani Deva We all have our prejudices. If Mahadeva didn’t judge, who are we to judge others?”

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“If you directly learn some meditation technique, you won't be able to do it when you need it the most (when life is painful). Before learning techniques, build faith in God/Universe. But alas! These days people idolize Karna, not Arjuna.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Is rainbow real or it's just a trick of light? Is light real or it's just a trick of darkness?”

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“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!”

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“Just as different games are available on android, different realities are available in the universe.”

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“When you're 'nothing', you're the origin of your reality. When you're a body-mind, you're the prisoner of your reality.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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).”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“The light of soul shines through eyes that shed tears of compassion.”

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“Companies, entertainers, content creators, politicians, preachers ... Everybody is squeezing you in the name of your family. Don't run away from your responsibilities but you should seek eternal freedom and not waste your life in gratifying some ghosts that are pretending to be your family members and holding you hostage.”

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“Even while your body and mind are running, there is something (or 'nothing') inside you which is always at rest. You're that.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Your eyes are like two small glass windows. Who is sitting inside and looking through them?”

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“Since the beginning of Time, Human beings have been growing the vast crop of myths around the eternal flower of truth.”

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