Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “If two people can be in silence without any thoughts, it is the highest form of union. It makes you experience the divine oneness. You realize that the same power is looking through your eyes and your lover’s eyes at the same time.”

— Shunya

302. “When you’re attached to a player or team, it enhances your experience of watching the game. But too much attachment gives you pain. God doesn’t give you pain. Your own attachment does.”

— Shunya

303. “Your ego lives inside you but she is not you; she is your close cousin. We always react more when a family member is hurt. That’s why you react when your dear cousin Ego gets hurt. Your core self is very secure and untroubled by what people say.”

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304. “If you have done something foolish, swallow the bad feeling and close the circle. If you carry around the guilt, it will push you down a spiral path.”

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305. “See the past memories as just information, not a hard reality that you have lived. Then they will become detachable like a Pen Drive. Everything around you will feel new. You will be like a Time traveller who has just checked in to this moment.”

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306. “Rebelling is just obeying in reverse.”

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307. “You will get it when you can handle it.”

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308. “All things are incomplete. They are in search of completeness. While you are in company of a person or a book or your favourite food, be aware of the experience inside you. Because the search of completeness ends inside, not outside.”

— Shunya

309. “When surrender happens, the universe itself becomes your Guru and starts walking you to your blissful home.”

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310. “Only saints have infinite capacity of gratitude, Normal people have limited capacity, If you are doing so much favour to someone that they won’t be able to return it, it may make them feel guilty, not grateful.”

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311. “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.”

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312. “Freewill at the level of mind is an illusion. The options you see, the thoughts you get and the option you choose is all part of hard script. The real freewill is at the soul level and you exercise it only in the moments when your soul is awake.”

— Shunya

313. “Spiritual growth is like physical growth in reverse: First you ask this and that from God like a child. When you grow spiritually, you feel like you are again in the womb... in the womb of the universe. Everything is provided without asking.”

— Shunya

314. “Life is a search of completeness. Only the supreme power is complete and whole. Directly or indirectly we search for Him whole life and perish. There is nothing more sacred than perishing in search of Him. So every life is sacred.”

— Shunya

315. “Detachment from the world means nearness to Shiva. Souls that are attached to both suffer immeasurable pain.”

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316. “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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317. “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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318. “Enjoy the present moment. Enjoy the journey. Because you are moving on an ENDLESS hill road. You are coming back to the same point again and again, maybe slightly higher or lower.”

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319. “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?”

— Shunya

320. “If you don’t have a filter in your mind, you will immediately offend those who wear filters and masks. To avoid offending, you will also install a filter and become ‘sane’.”

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321. “If you can take apart a machine and assemble it back again, you have mastered that machine. If you have fallen apart and pulled yourself back together, you have mastered yourself.”

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322. “Most people don’t want solution of their problem. When someone rants about their problem, imagine someone sitting in a cinema hall and ranting about the villain. They are fully engrossed in this endless movie since many births.”

— Shunya

323. “One way to serve people is to let them blame you for their pain. The pain whose source is unknown is most unbearable. So people manufacture a source to reduce that pain.”

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324. “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.”

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325. “Forget awakening of soul, majority of people first need to open windows of their head: Learn a language other than your own, stay at a place where people don’t speak your language, try to understand those who have completely opposite point of view than yours.”

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326. “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.”

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327. “Just as you can hide a tall building behind a tiny finger, you’re hiding God behind yourself.”

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328. “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.”

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329. “Your kindness is only for the half. The compassion that will flow from deep inside you will be for everyone: rich-poor, deer-lion, wise-unwise because they all are caught in the trap that you will have escaped.”

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330. “From your birth, they started feeding you the idea that the universe has only 3 dimensions and limited resources for which you have to fight with each other. If you detach from this idea and spend some time with yourself, you will realize that there are hidden dimensions from which a soul can manifest anything for itself.”

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331. “The cause of misery is not lack of something but excess of thoughts.”

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332. “If materialistic world is noise, spirituality or religion is music. Most people just keep shuttling between noise and music. To discover the eternal silence, you have to realize that the music is just refined noise.”

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333. “Branch by branch, twig by twig, you have been assembling a plastic tree which is never going to yield fruits of happiness. It’s not too late. Start nurturing the real tree, the real you.”

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334. “When politicians misuse their position, we call it corruption. It’s a bad word. When other celebrities misuse their position and lie about products, we call it sponsoring. It’s a nice and fancy word. That means human mind can be conditioned to believe anything as good or bad.”

— Shunya

335. “You are pure milk. If you pour yourself into a bowl which already has some water, the bowl will accuse you of being adulterated. You can’t prove your purity until the bowl drains out its water and closes the inlet.”

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336. “Treat the entire external world – thoughts, things and people – as a single unit, a single person. Her name is Maya. You, the soul, are in a unique relationship with her. For any happy relationship, space is important. So, leave her alone once in a while. In other words, meditate!”

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337. “When gods plant a thought in your mind to guide you, it gets bullied and silenced into a corner by the other loud thoughts in your mind. We have to have a still mind to get guidance from gods. Ironically, we need their guidance the most when our mind is not still.”

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338. “Nothingness is the only fact. Silence is its only possible description. Rest all are just interpretations.”

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339. “A young tree was bothered by the fact that a lot of tiny insects were living in its trunk. An old tree advised, “Focus on your larger self – roots, trunk, branches, leaves. The tiny insects will stop bothering you. Don’t let a woodpecker destroy you on the pretext of killing your insects.”

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340. “The plant of your Desire needs the water of Karma in order to grow and yield fruits. Your limited physical self can only bring water from wells and ponds which might not suit your plant. Only the freewill of your soul can bring abundant rain.”

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341. “You can’t define your duties. You can recognize your duties when they call you. The call comes from deep inside you. It may go against definitions set by mind.”

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342. “Whether you disappoint someone or make them happy, in both cases you engage and occupy their mind. In both cases you give them what their mind craves for : any form of engagement.”

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343. “In the village of light, there lived a man. Out of curiosity, he once crossed the village boundary and met the darkness and gave her the offering of dark thoughts and dark deeds. When he returned to his village, the light shamed him for what he did. So he ran back to darkness and did more dark deeds. Since then he is running between light and darkness... wait a minute. The light is also acting as an agent of darkness here.”

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344. “A beggar is sad because his alms collection is lower than usual. An emperor is sad because his tax collection is lower than usual. You are on a circular ladder. There is always a lower and higher.”

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345. “The universe means Time and Space. To befriend Time, be patient. To befriend Space, declutter your life and be simple.”

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346. “Sitting inside the train of Time, we wonder, “Where is it going? What is the purpose of all this?” When we float out of it and experience Timelessness, we realize that there is no coming, no going. Then we come back into the train and start asking the same question.”

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347. “In an environment where I can be me and you can be you, I become a better me and you become a better you. But we are in a mad rush of trying to be like each other, preserving only what is common between us and destroying what is unique about each of us.”

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348. “Strong souls face painful tragedies because the universe honours their strength by pulling out its most fearsome weapons against them.”

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349. “Your rest is not rest. You are resting so that you can work. You are working so that you can rest. You are caught up in a circle.”

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350. “All sorts of people are doing all sorts of things all over the world. They all are right as per their own definition of right and wrong.”

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