“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
“Soul awakens when it stops identifying with the body+mind. But in many seekers their mind stops identifying with the body. That is a painful situation because they are neither here nor there. Society seems meaningless to them and awakening remains elusive to them.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismNew AgeOld Soul Author:Shunya
“I am a soul." This thought may give relief to beginners. But as you advance on spiritual path, this thought creates a huge problem: Your mind splits into two. One part starts acting like a soul and says "I am a soul." And the soul remains asleep.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismEnlightenmentHinduismNothingnessShunya Author:Shunya
“Virus that doesn’t belong to your body, and people that aren’t meant for you create diseases and problems in life. To counter them, you bring a solution. If the problem doesn’t belong to you, the solution doesn’t belong to you either. So solution is another problem in disguise. If you enjoy the process of finding solutions, it’s OK. But if you really want to eradicate a problem, you must eradicate it from the root so that even the memory of the problem doesn’t stay with you.” SoulSpiritualityProblemsHinduismSuperpowersKundalini Author:Shunya
“Imagine that God or Supreme Power came before you in the form of a fragrance which is a mixture of all the fragrances of the universe. But your mind will only pick up fragrances you are familiar with and say, “I know the fragrance of God. It’s like fragrance of my child... my lover ... my parents... my childhood memories ...” The God is right before you but your mind is recognizing only small parts of Him. To experience Him fully, you have to rise above the level of mind, and then rise above the level of soul, and finally be the God or Paramatma.” SoulGodSpiritualityEnlightenmentAwakeningHinduismNothingnessSupreme Soul Author:Shunya
“When you throw a stone to get a mango from tree, it’s a normal thingcause and effect. What if you just mimicked the hand gesture without actually throwing the stone and still get the mango? That is magical. That is how this world feels when you enjoy it from the level of soul. Maya (Space-Time) doesn’t want you to be at the level of soul. She suggests, “You can have this kind of experience at mind level too. You can get reaction from people just by doing acting, just by faking the action.” Since we lack the soul-level magical experience, we try to emulate it at mind level by faking things. Let aside earning money, even the act of love becomes an exercise in fakeness. The search of that magical experience at mind level often turns into lust and greed.” SoulPhilosophySpiritualityMagicIllusionGreedLustHinduism Author:Shunya
“In a few decades, perhaps people will get attached to social media profiles just like you are attached to your body mind now. Then Gurus will have to remind them, “Profile is nothing but some pictures and data stored in servers owned by social media companies. You don’t own it. You just access it. Don’t bother about likes and followers. You are not a profile. you are a body-mind!” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismIllusionHinduismVedantaSpiritual KnowledgeSupreme Truth Author:Shunya
“God, the world seen through the glasses of my limited understanding no longer interests me. I surrender my questions, my answers, my theories, my opinions, my beliefs. Fill me with awe. Overwhelm me with your wonders.” MindSoulGodFaithDevotionHinduismAdvaitaNon DualityHindu Author:Shunya
“A bird is inside a moving car. He is flapping his wings and thinking that car is moving because of him. That is your life: Bird is your soul, car is your body-mind. You say, “There is no satisfaction in the journey.” Guru says, “Detach from the car.” But you panic as soon as you hear the word “detach”. It only means, fly above the car, not inside it.” MindSoulAwakeningHinduismDetachmentVedantaNon DualitySpiritual Knowledge Author:Shunya
“What happens after Moksha (liberation)? Moksha means free from Time. So, there is no after or before. Mind exists inside Time. It can never be free from Time, It asks such questions to keep you (soul) attached. It’s a toxic love story between you and your manipulative mind.” MindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduismBuddhaMokshaHindu Author:Shunya
“In ancient India, human being were simple. They would earn with their upper body (head and hands) and spend on their lower body (food, sex, travel). To break this circle and find God, technique was simple: Do fasting, abstain from sex and sit in a cave. Now you have a thousand such circles within your head. Techniques of body don’t work on you.” MindSoulReligionSpiritualitySolitudeHinduismFastingCelibacyAsceticism Author:Shunya
“Don’t make spirituality a part of your life. Let your life be a part of spirituality.” LifeMindSoulSpiritualityBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“One thing appears to be near you, another far away because you have the ability to perceive distance. If you lose this ability, all things, including your body, will appear to be at a single point. There will be no near or far. Similarly, if you lose ability to perceive Time, things of past, present and future will all appear to be at a single point. That point is nothingness or everythingness.” SoulSelfTimeUniverseSpaceBuddhismHinduismNothingness Author:Shunya
“To realize the Supreme Power, either analyze your mind and keep negating all your beliefs until “nothing” remains. Or love the outside world and keep accepting everything and everyone as His reflection. Either reach nothingness or reach everythingness; both are same.” SoulWholeBodyUniverseBuddhismHinduismNothingnessFraction Author:Shunya
“You and your body-mind are in a room. Somebody calls a name. Your body-mind go out of room. You (soul) have no name. Nobody is calling you. Then why are you going out with the body-mind?” SoulPhilosophySpiritualityBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“There may be many tourist places in your city Tourists go inside them and explore. You see them from outside everyday. But you haven’t gone inside them and explored like a tourist. God is not far away from you. He is so near that you have created a mental distance from Him.” MindSoulGodReligionBuddhismHinduism Author:Shunya
“It's like a play being enacted in a dark theater. You have brought your own torch to watch it. You should be able to walk out without feeling bad because the play is not dependent on your torch.” SoulHinduismNondualityDetachmentVedantaMaya Author:Shunya
“You are in a house of mirrors. People around you are your reflections. They look different because you look different from different angles. You are Paramatma (Supreme Soul). Don't identify yourself with a reflection which says, 'No, I am just a little human being.” SoulEnlightenmentHinduismVedantaNon DualitySupreme Soul Author:Shunya
“There are 3 levels to play the game of life. In 1st level, you identify yourself with a group such as family, friend circle, fan group or a group based on ideology, geography, language etc. At this level, you play against the group which is against your group. In 2nd level, your identify with a body-mind and play against or with rest of the universe. In 3rd level, you identify yourself as nothing and play with everything as a whole. Nothing and everything are same. So 3rd level is not a play. It's Samadhi.” LifeMindSoulWholeBuddhismEnlightenmentHinduismNothingness Author:Shunya
“Enlightenment is death before death, death of everything you are not. And a seeker's journey is like a soldier climbing a hilltop in the shower of bullets, not like a tourist trekking a hill.” DeathBuddhismEnlightenmentAwakeningZenHinduismSpiritual JourneyInner JourneySeeker Author:Shunya
“Anything that can be said is a perspective, not truth.” TruthAwakeningZenHinduismNothingnessShunya Author:Shunya
“Mind is like a net that can catch many things. Supreme truth is the fragrance it can never catch.” BuddhismZenHinduismNothingnessVedantaShunya Author:Shunya
“When you detach from your identity and I detach from mine, we are nothing (Shunya). But that 'nothing' contains everything just as white light contains all colours.” PhilosophyBuddhismZenHinduismNothingnessShunyaImmortal Talks Author:Shunya
“Everybody is trying to put clothes of their own size on the Eternal Truth.” TruthBuddhismEnlightenmentAwakeningZenHinduismJainismSupreme Truth Author:Shunya