Top 500 Shunya Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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?”

— Shunya

402. “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.”

— Shunya

403. “Information stuffed in our mind is like a floodlight. We dim it only while enjoying dance, music, dance of colours and sounds in nature.”

— Shunya

404. “When you finally jump out of the pond and see trees for the first time, how would you describe them to your former companions in the pond who have only seen moss till now? Weird large frames covered with moss?”

— Shunya

405. “When the car is fast, you get excitement but lose control of direction. This fast world is exciting but we’ve lost control of our own life.”

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406. “A homeless beggar is not in pain, His condition remains the same; he has become used to it. You are in pain because your condition is constantly changing. If a neighbour gets better car than yours, your condition has changed!”

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407. “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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408. “Search of truth is actually a search of strength to handle the truth.”

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409. “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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410. “Suppose 10 different sculpture artists are thinking about what they are going to sculpt next. If you show them a rough rock, they won’t see rock; they will see what they are thinking of carving from it. Similarly, the universe is just a rough rock. Different souls see different things in it.”

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411. “Those who act from their heart feel that everyone acts from their hearts. Those who act from their head believe that everyone acts from their heads.”

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412. “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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413. “You feel that your soul is in your character since birth. Your character’s memories make you believe so. A realized soul is not bound to memory of the character. A realized soul feels that it came to the character just now. Everything feels new.”

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414. “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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415. “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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416. “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.”

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417. “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.”

— Shunya

418. “Things that are too perfect for us don’t attract us. They are like a slippery floor having no friction at all. We desire some friction... some flaws... something to work upon.”

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419. “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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420. “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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421. “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.”

— Shunya

422. “I forgive you.’ This statement suggests attachment. If you have forgiven someone to close their chapter from your life, you won’t feel the need of saying it to them. They will just stop existing for you.”

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423. “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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424. “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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425. “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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426. “Mind can’t go inward. It can only go in opposite direction- from pleasure to pain, from chaos to discipline.”

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427. “Get high on meditation, not addictions. Try this: Sit calmly, let loose your head and feel your heartbeat. Head will feel like a ball and heartbeat will give a nudge to the ball thereby causing subtle swinging motions to it. You will get high in 5 minutes .”

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428. “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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429. “When bad experiences are over, when termites have been cleaned out, it is important to fill the holes left by them. Open holes become invitation to red ants. Fill them. Revive your hobbies. Do the things that empower your inner self.”

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

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

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432. “If you are OK being dishonest, circumstances will squeeze you so much that you will have no other option but to be dishonest. If you are not OK being dishonest, circumstances will allow you to stay honest.”

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433. “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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434. “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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435. “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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436. “You will get love and respect from others when you stop craving for it.”

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

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438. “Belief systems are just glasses of different shades that we wear on our inner eye.”

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439. “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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440. “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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441. “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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442. “I fear the fire of anger you ignite in me. Because once it starts raging, I don’t know what all it will burn.”

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

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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. “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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446. “Some people find God through their lover, the moon. On dark moon, they drink the poison of separation. On full moon, they drink the nectar of meeting. Accepting both sides of life, they reach oneness, the God.”

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447. “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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448. “You say you’re madly in love with me. Yes, I can see the madness but no love. You don’t love me. You’re madly attached to a fantasized version of me that you’ve created in your head. You don’t talk to me. You talk to your fantasies.”

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449. “When a free lion starts proving himself before the circus lions, he no longer remains free.”

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450. “How satisfying it is to see a chef at work! Adding a bit of this, bit of that! If you do all little things with full awareness, you will also feel like a chef enjoying the process of cooking.”

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