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“Like Anesthesia detaches mind from body, supreme knowledge detaches the soul from body-mind.”

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“In a movie, when a character receives a letter, she reads it aloud for the audience. Other characters of the movie can’t know the secret, but she tells it to the audience. Be the audience if you want to know the deepest secrets of the universe. Be the audience if you want to make sense of what is happening around you. Your character is the doer while your soul is the audience. Be at the level of soul more often.”

“You browse through Netflix or Hotstar to find something interesting to watch. At last, you end up watching your favourite show that you have already watched several times. This world is also a show. But there are many such shows available in parallel realms. When you go to sleep here, your soul browses through the list of other shows, watches a few teasers, but at last comes back to this show because it is attached to the characters of this show.”

“Maybe secrets were part of life; maybe everyone had something they were lying to themselves about, or something they were hiding. I looked up at the cross again and wondered if I was supposed to hear this particular sermon at this particular moment for a reason. I decided that the people who had said God didn’t love me, who said I didn’t have a place on Earth—they were wrong. God wanted me to live, and this was the only way I knew how to survive, so this was what God wanted. This was what I wanted. I had chosen to live, and it seemed like, finally, I was doing just that.”