Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “The essence of religious texts is the knowledge of self. If you remove the essence, what remains is just cultural fluff. Then reading the stories of gods is no better than reading a novel. It is perhaps worse because it keeps you in the illusion that you are religious or spiritual.”

— Shunya

402. “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.”

— Shunya

403. “When we browse internet, pictures get loaded on our device, not downloaded. When we browse the universe, things get temporarily loaded in our life, not permanently downloaded. Once you embrace this truth, all problems resolve and you reach the state of permanent bliss.”

— Shunya

404. “If you have labelled someone as good or bad, you have created a wall between them and you.”

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405. “Language has it’s uses but we have started using it as quick and cheap alternative for actions: It takes a lot of effort to make someone feel that you love them. “I love you” is cheap alternative. It takes effort to create study environment at home so that children feel like studying. “Do your homework” is cheap alternative.”

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406. “Things go wrong with those who trust everyone except their own instincts, and with those who doubt everything except their own doubter mind.”

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407. “When Time makes you choose lesser evil between two evils, choose one but don’t fall for the third evil: Guilt.”

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408. “An actor gets into his role when he reaches the film set. But every corner of this world is a film set. As the sets change, you switch from one role to another spontaneously. From family roles to office roles, from lead role to side role, you play them all as per the set around you, In temple you are in the role of a devotee, in meditation you are in the role of a seeker. When you are not in a role, who are you?”

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409. “If eating regular food has become a pain for you, you can eat restaurant food to get pleasure. Or you can create the bigger pain of hunger by toiling hard in the field for a few hours. Then regular food will taste like restaurant food. This is how the game of duality is designed. Pain and pleasure are relative here. Only the inner bliss is absolute.”

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410. “A student asks, “Sir, if you’re enlightened, why are you stuck in this body?” Guru replies, “This body is a drop in the ocean. I am the ocean, not a drop. Since you identify yourself as a drop, you only see drops around you.”

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411. “Don’t let them rob your feminine in the name of feminism. Amputation is not a cure of the wound.”

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412. “The hell is not something which is full of trash, because one can adjust and find comfort in trash after some time. The hell is when our little temple of purity gets surrounded by trash.”

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413. “These questions and answers for how long? These rituals and prayers for how long? When are you going to exhaust yourself? When are you going to fall so that the divine in you may arise?”

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414. “Don’t make spirituality a part of your life. Let your life be a part of spirituality.”

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415. “Universe is your beloved, not a shopkeeper. Make a wish and forget about it. He will tease you before He surprises you.”

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416. “If you uncover yourself and find who you are, the universe will also uncover itself before you, If you try to forcefully uncover the universe without uncovering yourself, you will meet endless layers after layers of planets, stars, galaxies, black holes, dark matter and what not!”

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417. “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.”

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418. “Whenever a temptation arises in your mind, resistance to it also arises. If you accept both temptation and resistance, you will become free from both. If you go with resistance alone, temptation will become stronger.”

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419. “Your life is being written by the pencil of “Time” on the paper of “Space”. When you get the Eraser of Supreme Knowledge, you neither get bothered by what has been written in the past, nor worry about what is going to be written in the future.”

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420. “If God comes before us, perhaps we won’t feel as much wonder as a child feels when she spots a butterfly. Perhaps God already stands before us; we just have to become childlike to be able to see Him.”

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421. “The game of life turns ugly when the player loses faith in the supreme umpire and starts doing umpiring.”

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422. “If you were living in somebody’s heart but now feeling like a tenant, accept the reality immediately. The landlord or landlady is now looking for excuses to evict you.”

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423. “When we catch someone lying, it becomes a pandemic like situation. Our mind starts sanitising every word and action coming from them.”

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424. “First take the responsibility of what is happening to you. Then only you can be powerful enough to change it. Only your inner being can take this responsibility because that is where the DVD of your Karma is playing.”

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425. “When compulsions make you keep doing something against your will, don’t be frustrated with others. Just observe the helplessness of your own physical self and ultimately detach from it.”

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426. “When black and white fight with each other, they both turn grey if spiritual awareness is not on either side. Then they both claim to be white and become an ugly shade of grey that is not found anywhere in nature except in human mind.”

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427. “Your mind is like a device you are wearing. Play with it instead of being played by it. You can easily play with one setting of this device: Focus. Focus only when required. At home, you are relaxed. But your mind is narrowly focussed on TV, fridge, phone and bed. De-focus and take in the whole surrounding. Feel the air touching your skin. hear so many sounds reaching your ears, sit on the floor and see your room without focussing on particular objects.”

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428. “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.”

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429. “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.”

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430. “When a schizophrenic patient sees things that others don’t see, he at least knows that his mind is playing with him. But your hallucinations, which you call reality. are being validated and strengthened by everything and everyone around you.”

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431. “Krishna’s maternal uncle Kansa is a symbol of society that starts conditioning your mind as soon as you take birth. You have been born and brought up in the prison of society. Krishna’s parents were imprisoned but they made sure that Krishna was brought up in freedom where he could discover His real self.”

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432. “Talking softly when you are not sick, walking gently when you’re not old, staying silent when you have words and so on... The energy you thus save lights your inner lamp and summons the higher powers.”

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433. “Most beautiful treasures are found by grace, not merely by seeking. But seeking is very important. Only when the Ego goes out for seeking can the treasures come in to adorn your soul.”

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434. “Life can be a party if you stop pretending to be the host, stop trying to micro-manage everything.”

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435. “You are sincerely doing slavery so that you can buy freedom one day. Slavery can’t buy you freedom. Be free right now in any small way possible. Only freedom can lead you towards absolute freedom.”

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436. “If the tree of life has given you the task of collecting leaves from the ground, do it blissfully. What you see as waste may be the compost that can help the fruits ripen early.”

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437. “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.”

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438. “People speak for two reasons, One, they speak to express what is in their mind. Second, and more often, they speak to hide something that silence might otherwise reveal.”

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439. “Communication between me and you will happen in 4 stages: 1. We will talk about other people and things. 2. We will talk about each other. 3. There will be no ‘about’. There will be just me and you and silent communication. 4. There will be no me and no you. There will be eternity. Come, o familiar stranger! Let’s communicate.”

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440. “If you trust the universe, you can’t distrust yourself because you are a part of the universe.”

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441. “Like your body breathes air, your mind breathes thoughts. You feel depressed when your mind forgets to fully breathe out. Stretch your mind regularly. Contemplate who you are in this infinite cosmos.”

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442. “Your inner self is complete in itself. It doesn’t require anything and yet everything is available to it.”

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443. “If you feel that you are the owner of your body-mind, you are violent. No matter how much you suppress your violent energy, it will come out in some form, You will either harm yourself or others.”

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444. “Answers are just food for mind. Like an animal may someday cross the boundaries of jungle in search of food, you might cross the boundaries of mind in search of answers. The supreme truth is not an answer but you may find Him in search of answers.”

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445. “You can meditate even while chopping carrots: The metal of knife has come from Earth, carrots have come from Earth, body is nothing but refined Earth. It’s all a dance of Earth and you are the eternal watcher, the soul.”

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446. “Trees are enlightened beings. But they’re extremely choosy when it comes to accepting disciples. Go to them alone and see if they accept you as their disciple.”

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447. “Her child has been taken away from her, Her breasts are overflowing with milk. So she feeds the orphans. Tears are flowing from her eyes. She is happy to help the orphans but there is a pain and guilt that the milk which was for her child is being consumed by others.”

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448. “Decades ago, when cars became a thing, people started imagining about flying cars. They never imagined about internet and smartphones. We extrapolate what we already know. If we know about cars, we imagine about flying cars.”

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449. “Go somewhere alone at night where there are no human beings around. Your own body will seem strange. Your own breath will seem someone else’s breath. We identify with our body because of people around us. Awakened ones can feel detached from body even in crowd.”

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450. “A belief is like a hired boat. It takes you through a particular type of life experiences. If it’s taking you towards storms, “Who knows?” should be your Mantra to turn it in the direction of your peaceful center – nothingness.”

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