62 Quotes by Shunya about enlightenment
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Everybody is trying to put clothes of their own size on the Eternal Truth.
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Peaceful and graceful exit from life is second best thing that can happen to a human being. The best is of course enlightenment.
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There is a beautiful custom in India: On her first Makar Sakranti after marriage, the bride pretends to awaken her in-laws who pretend to be deep asleep. Similar thing happens between the Guru and seekers. God inside seekers is pretending to be deep asleep. God inside Guru pretends to awaken them. It's all a divine play.
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Many seekers start "overdoing" it. They become like a fish that desperately wants to get out of ocean. Calm down. Fish can't get out of ocean. Ocean is all there is. And you're the ocean, not a fish.
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The information that you get from outside is at best the general truth; it applies to many people in general. It isn't your truth. Your truth is inside you. You can't express it to anyone else. It takes you into silence, which is the supreme truth.
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Some people are like echo. They will always have the last word in an argument, Even if you tell them that they are like echo, they will retort. Finally you have to settle for silence.Not just some people but the entire Space-Time is an echo chamber of duality. When you realize this, you settle for the eternal silence.
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You are in a house of mirrors. People around you are your reflections. They look different because you look different from different angles. You are Paramatma (Supreme Soul). Don't identify yourself with a reflection which says, 'No, I am just a little human being.
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The ancients used to go to jungle to do Sadhana i.e. to face hardships, danger and uncertainly with nothing but faith. Now people want to escape to jungle for peace. If you want to do Sadhana, society is the new jungle. All kinds of animals are roaming here in human clothes.
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