Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “When surrender happens, the universe itself becomes your Guru and starts walking you to your blissful home.”

— Shunya

302. “A cave is formed naturally by interplay of the five elements, and your house is man-made. But what is man? Nothing but an interplay of five elements. Even the thoughts that you consider your own are nothing but fireplay happening in your mind. When you realize this truth, your house will also feel like a cave and your life will become a meditation.”

— Shunya

303. “This morning, did you wake up in the same body in which you slept last night? Maybe you slept in the body of Ram and woke up in the body of Shyam. Now you think you are Shyam because you have taken up memories and everything that belongs to Shyam. Maybe you take a new body everyday. Rejoice! It’s a new day and a new life!”

— Shunya

304. “On the path of devotion, the relationship between the devotee and deity is personal and unique. Your father’s Hanuman can be different from your Hanuman. Maybe his Hanuman doesn’t allow him to cut nails on Tuesday, your Hanuman might allow. The devotee assigns characteristics to the deity out of love. There are as many deities as there are devotees.”

— Shunya

305. “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.”

— Shunya

306. “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.”

— Shunya

307. “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.”

— Shunya

308. “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.”

— Shunya

309. “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.”

— Shunya

310. “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.”

— Shunya

311. “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.”

— Shunya

312. “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.”

— Shunya

313. “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.”

— Shunya

314. “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.”

— Shunya

315. “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.”

— Shunya

316. “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.”

— Shunya

317. “Lustful people are often very generous. Addicts often have a tender heart. Bad things about you often surround the best thing about you just as thorns surround a rose.”

— Shunya

318. “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.”

— Shunya

319. “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

320. “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.”

— Shunya

321. “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.”

— Shunya

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.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

324. “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

325. “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.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

327. “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

328. “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.”

— Shunya

329. “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

330. “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.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

332. “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.”

— Shunya

333. “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

334. “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.”

— Shunya

335. “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.”

— Shunya

336. “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.”

— Shunya

337. “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.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

339. “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.”

— Shunya

340. “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.”

— Shunya

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

— Shunya

342. “Rebelling is just obeying in reverse.”

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343. “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.”

— Shunya

344. “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.”

— Shunya

345. “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.”

— Shunya

346. “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.”

— Shunya

347. “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

348. “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.”

— Shunya

349. “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?”

— Shunya

350. “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