Yes, you're blessed to be on the spiritual path. But to cut through last layers of your ego and clean all your prejudices, a Guru may hammer you with a statement such as this: "A person is reading vogue magazine and another person is reading religious texts. Both are caught up in their own little world. Both think they are superior than the other.

Family is not always right. Mahabharata happened because Dhritarashtr was blind to his son’s misdeeds and all four younger Pandavas blindly supported their eldest brother who gambled.When it comes to family, we are all blind because our body-mind are indebted to them for life. We can’t run away from that debt. But the soul can insulate itself from their bad Karma just by being aware of this blindness.

These days seekers are like, "Tell me the truth but don't contradict what I already believe in."They choose their Guru. If they believe that Earth is flat, they choose someone who says that Earth is flat.

When we meet a new person, our mind builds their sketch based on the information available. But even a lifetime is not enough to get full information about a person. So, our mind fills in the missing information with its own convenient prejudices.The person you love is not as good as your mind makes you believe. And the person you hate is not as bad as your mind makes you believe.

At one side, there are people who blindly follow everything ancient. Give them poison in an antique bottle, they will drink it. At the other side, there are people who blindly worship everything modern. Even if you give them the nectar of immortality in an antique bottle, they will discard it. Don’t let your prejudices about bottles deprive you of the content inside them.

Human mind also has teeth and digestive system. Most people use just teeth. They react immediately to everything. They don't digest. Teeth can only chew things. To extract nutrients, you need to swallow and digest.

Glass and sand are made from the same material (silicon). Heroes and villains are cut from the same cloth. Don’t reject a hero just because he resembles a villain of your past.

Human psychology is that anything you do in a group feels right. People as a group can kill someone and call it religious because it feels right to them. Religion and righteousness are not the same thing. Religion is about going beyond right and wrong and seeing things as they are without any prejudices and judgements.

A farmer used to leave breadcrumbs for a white mouse which lived in a hole under a tree. After the farmer died, the mouse was also dying of starvation. Then a bird enlightened him, “O fool!The wheat crop is flourishing all around you. There is so much to eat.