“We seek the punchline in a joke, moral in a story, summary in an essay, fragrance in a flower and so on. We seek essence in each and every thing . Why don't we seek essence of the universe as a whole? That essence is nothingness.” WisdomUniverseEnlightenmentEssenceAwakeningNothingness 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
“The universe is so complete in itself that anything is possible here. Even horses can fly in some realm. Don’t waste your energy in defending and holding onto your beliefs and opinions. Let that energy enrich your experiences instead.” LifeUniverseBeliefDogmaExperiencesOpinionsRigidity 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
“If your needs (not desires) are within your resources, you are blessed. If a blessed person has no friends, universe does not create situations in which he would need a friend.” NeedsPhilosophyReligionUniverseBlessingDesires Author:Shunya
“A dentist can work on you only if you remain calmly sitting in the chair. Usually our wish gets fulfilled when we get tired and stop wishing for it. Because that’s when we become calm and allow divine energies to work upon us.” GodReligionFaithUniverseWishKarma 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
“You are a small part of the universe. How can another small part make you complete? The line you have drawn between you and the rest of the universe is Ego. When that line vanishes, you become complete.” UniverseRelationshipsEgoCompletenessEgoless Author:Shunya
“She has found the secret: When you stop seeking the artificial entertainment created by thoughts and words, the universe resumes the original entertainment. Birds, stars, clouds etc. come and dance before her and make her feel like the queen of universe.” LifeWisdomSpiritualityUniverseNatureSecretMystery 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
“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
“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 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
“Your body is like a tiny train coach. Eyes are its windows. All the people are coaches of the same train which is moving on curved tracks of Time. Curves are so complicated that the same train appears like many trains racing with each other. That is the illusion of Space and Time.” LifeWisdomRealityTimeSpiritualityUniverseSpaceIllusion Author:Shunya
“Oneness has to be realized, not created. Those who try to create oneness in the world end up creating one more group, one more sect, one more division.” ReligionSpiritualityUniverseEnlightenmentActivismSelf RealizationOneness Author:Shunya