"God is also part and parcel of this dream world of ours. When we wake up from the dream called World, we realise only we exist as Brahman or Pure Consciousness (that is, Consciousness without any contents) - no God, no World. Who then is God? God is only Brahman with power of Maya (that … Continue reading Ultimate Truth
Category: My Quotes
God Is Being Naughty
"God has put us in Double Jeopardy. Firstly, He makes us feel we have lost several things precious, like happiness, love, peace, and freedom. Secondly, he makes us search for those very things in the wrong places, namely, outside. Ah, God, how mischievous you are!!!"---D. Samarender Reddy
Love Is Selfish
"I think ultimately love (only romantic?) is a selfish thing. Love happens when a person of the opposite sex (here I risk being accused of being homophobic) comes along who satisfies all your expectations at the physical, psychological, personality, emotional, social, cultural, etc. level. So, when one's needs seem to be met in another person … Continue reading Love Is Selfish
Whither Freedom?
"As long as you want to use the body-mind given you for your own purposes such as fulfilling your own petty little desires, you will be in trouble as you will be enmeshed in binding karma and its consequences in never-ending succession. The sooner you surrender your body-mind to God to use it as he … Continue reading Whither Freedom?
Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma
"Brahman or Self or Consciousness or Awareness or Truth or Reality appears as this world of names-and-forms to our five senses and mind."---D. Samarender Reddy
Philosophy vs Religion
"Those who cannot understand and live by philosophy need religion."---D. Samarender Reddy
Silent Mind
"He who knows the value of a silent mind, will not barter it for anything else in the world."---D. Samarender Reddy
True Brahmin
"Only a true Brahmin is a true Hindu. A true Hindu does not consider himself a Brahmin, true or otherwise. And to be a true Brahmin you need not be a born-Hindu. Not all born-Hindus are true Hindus. A true Hindu is one who does not consider himself as belonging to any identity be it … Continue reading True Brahmin
Name-and-Form
"Wave is only a name-and-form whose underlying actual substance is water, just like our body-mind is just name-and-form whose underlying actual substance is Consciousness, much like a pot is just name-and-form whose underlying actual substance is clay."---D. Samarender Reddy
What Are You?
"Just because you believe strongly that something is true and it seems beyond doubt, it does not necessarily mean it is true. Right now you are believing strongly that you are nothing but the body-mind complex and it seems beyond doubt. But, is it necessarily true? Investigate."--- D. Samarender Reddy
