Human ego and drunk poets have ruined the powerful concept of soul and turned it into a flowery notion.Your character (body-mind) can function on its own. Soul doesn't do anything. It just witnesses what the character does. The character would go on as per its script even if your soul weren't here to witness it.

If you don't try to define Him like scholars do, if you don't reduce Him to a mere concept, any path can lead you to Him. Even thieves and decoits can find a sharp exit on their path and merge with Him.

First find the one inside you which is already desireless. Then your body-mind will also become desireless. Doing the reverse is not possible. You can't first make your body-mind desireless and then find the one which is already desireless. The sages who preached the reverse ended up creating cults, sects, and religions.

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.

A person dies... Disappears into thin air... But people keep on doing things casually as though nothing has happened. TV, radio, newspaper, internet -- everywhere the only discussion should be on who we are and where we have come from? Instead people are busy doing circus. It should make you wonder whether people around you are real or just shadows that are putting on a show to stop you from knowing truth.

Wearing perfume can't be a substitute for bath. For a seeker, reading famous spiritual books, visiting some holy Gurus and places, doing some chanting and rituals is like wearing perfume. If you wish to take bath, throw yourself to the universe. It will make you do things that are not even remotely spiritual or religious. But they will bathe you clean.

You can connect with only those with whom you have something in common. Nothingness is common in everything. If you identify yourself as nothingness, you can even connect with a rock. If you identify yourself as a particular person, you can only connect with those who belong to your caste, creed, religion, region, race, kind.

You can't grab the supreme truth. You have to melt into it. If you try to grab it, you will end up grabbing the myths that surround it.

Society gives you some goals. You achieve them after much effort. You celebrate for a few days. Then life becomes the same as before. You don't get the happiness you were expecting. Achievements feel useless. Then you attach your pride to them to make them seem useful. Pride is a way of deceiving yourself.