Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “You can’t selectively clean bad things from the past. Entire past – good and bad both – gets cleaned at once in the shower of divine love or supreme knowledge.”

— Shunya

302. “When a fruit becomes ripe and separates from the tree, that is a proper ending of relationship. But human relationships rarely have such ending. That’s why there is always an urge to re-start the relationship, just to have a proper ending.”

— Shunya

303. “Dear God, this endless cosmos is filled with dust and darkness. Thank you for creating this little corner for me. Thank you for arranging this little magic show of love and light.”

— Shunya

304. “Eternity is the costliest thing in the universe. You have to give yourself to get it. No discount. If you keep even a little bit of yourself with you, you won’t get it.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

306. “When you expect reward and don’t get it, it feels like punishment. When you expect love and don’t get it, it feels like hate. With expectations we create opposite of what we expect.”

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307. “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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308. “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.”

— Shunya

309. “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.”

— Shunya

310. “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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311. “Desires are currency notes. If you have a new crispy note and a soiled note, you will first try to spend the soiled note. Desire to find the supreme truth is the most crispy note. You are saving it for last. Even amongst soiled notes, you are first trying most soiled: You first try broken partners before settling for marriage material, you try painful jobs before settling for your passion, you try wrong Gurus and books before settling for the one that you need.”

— Shunya

312. “Yes, it’s frustrating to not being able to reach a conclusion. But it’s devastating to reach a wrong conclusion. Have patience.”

— Shunya

313. “When we like something too much, a part of us wants to keep them forever in our ‘wishlist’ because we know that when wishes comes true, they lose their charm.”

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314. “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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315. “When you love yourself as you are, others start loving you. But to love yourself as you are, first you have to stop craving for love from others.”

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316. “Only your conscious being is eternally yours. Everything else is bonus. The loss or gain is happening from the bonus.”

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317. “I like this, I dislike that. He is good, she is evil.′ This black and white approach towards life gives us very low quality experiences. To make up for the quality, we run after quantity. We seek more and more dramas everywhere be it home, office, road, TV, news media.”

— Shunya

318. “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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319. “Rules of Karma can’t be written. The rules written and imposed by society are just thoughts of influential people. Their thoughts can suppress or oppress you just as your own thoughts can depress you.”

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320. “Understand the difference between mystical art and mystical knowldge. Devotional music, life stories of mystics and gods, images, paintings etc. may temporarily transport you to mystical world but they can’t give you mystical powers. Art is beautiful. Knowledge is boring. Ancient sages tried to mix art with knowledge. We discarded the knowledge but kept the art.”

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321. “If you have got used to living life of a king, it would seem ordinary to you. Plus you will get nightmares at the thought of losing it all. If you are used to nothing, even food on your plate and roof on your head will seem like heaven. Everything is relative.”

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322. “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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323. “Whatever happened in the past brought you to this point in life. If you are sad at this point, you will say, “It happened for bad.” If you are happy at this point, you will say, “It happened for good.”

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324. “Life designed by human society is like a TV serial full of drama and tension. Peace, prosperity, justice, equality, health – These are just empty slogans flying around since the beginning. Society has no interest in these things. Society is interested in the drama and new episodes that get created when characters pursue these things.”

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325. “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.”

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326. “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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327. “If Goddess appears before you, what will you do? Your body-mind might do something, not you. You will discover that you are nothingness. You don’t do anything. You remain in the eternal state of being.”

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

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329. “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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330. “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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331. “You want to spend your day like an emperor and then sleep deeply like a labourer. That’s not possible in this world of dualities. Here definition of pleasure is relief from pain. Eternal bliss is found when you detach from both.”

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332. “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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333. “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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334. “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.”

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335. “We can forget our headache by self inflicting deeper pain in some other part of body. That is what anger is – A self inflicted pain to numb the hurt caused by others.”

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336. “When someone doesn’t have what you have, their heart fills with admiration and head with envy. Their heart wants them to become closer to you and their head wants them to become like you.”

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337. “Have you heard the sound of knife cutting through apple? Have you felt touch of water when you wash your face? No. Because while doing these things you are already thinking of something in future. To be in the present you have to be fully sensitive to your surrounding. More sensitive you are, closer you are to the eternal bliss.”

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338. “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.”

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339. “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.”

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340. “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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341. “Faith has the power to turn A into B. But there is an important step involved: First A vanishes into nothingness and then B emerges out of it. This step requires you to be free of all worldly knowledge, which is nothing but opinions of human race.”

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342. “There is no point in reading anything until your mind is fully clean and receptive. Mind’s tendency is to interpret things the way it suits you, the way it strengthens your existing beliefs.”

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

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344. “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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345. “In a movie, dialogues take the story forward and background sounds give dramatic effect. So many people are saying so many things in your life. React to only those with whom you want to take your story forward. Regard the rest as background sounds.”

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346. “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.”

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347. “Children become serious when they play. To regain that beautiful seriousness, you have to live in the present and take life as a play.”

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348. “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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349. “The new trend of capturing pics instead of enjoying the experience is not new. Human mind has been doing that for ages. Your mind tries to capture the experience by naming, defining, judging, comparing and categorizing everything. As a result, your soul misses the live dance of colours, sounds, shapes and sensations happening before you.”

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350. “If you are way more successful than your sibling, you will come out as patronizing no matter what you do for them. They feel overshadowed by you. They may make friends who are not good from your perspective. To make them feel equal, you must accept their friend circle. Or just completely separate from them and let them live their life their own way.”

— Shunya