Book: Wisdom in Awareness

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Quotations and Passages for the Clarity

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Human mind works best with sound, images, and smell. In the animal kingdom we are not among the strongest species. Yet we are thriving on this planet. In comparison to other animals of planet earth, our brain has evolved to the extreme. We can reason, imagine, remember many things, remember for a very long time, and we have intuition and telepathy. These capabilities came to us over millions of years of evolutionary process. Reading and writing characters, words, sentences is the latest capability in this evolutionary process. That is why every human knows how to use sounds, images, and smell for signaling and survival but many of us don’t know how to read letters of a single language. Reading words, sentences and books is painful for them. But there are some who can speak, read and write poetry and philosophy in multiple languages.

We know a picture can speak a thousand words but many of us cannot draw a circle or straight line correctly. But, this is about writing. There are many people who can read but cannot write. There are a few who can write and read in multiple languages. Even if you can write and draw, you know writing is easy compared to drawing, unless you are a wizard of painting and drawing.

Even if writing is easy compared to drawing, many people cannot even write. Reading a complex image is easy for many people rather than reading a paragraph. This is the reason compressing information in lesser words is important. But, in this process essense of the text should not be dropped or misrepresented. Quotations are the way to compress that information.

Wisdom is quintessential things which we develop within us, after listening, reading, observing, experimenting, and experiencing. Every human has some wisdom. When we want to share that wisdom, we take the help of letters, words, grammar, script, sound of any language and script. We can also take help of drawing. What we write or draw or speak is information for others. Whether it will become a listener’s or reader’s wisdom or not, it depends upon them. Before that information becomes wisdom for them it becomes knowledge for them.

I was fond of so-called one line wisdom quotations. Over the period of time I realized this has the following problems. “Wisdom Quotation” for speaker or writer is packed information for the readers, it is not wisdom for listeners and readers. Many times these quotations are trying to play with words and acronyms. Life is more than those words or acronyms of any language. Word play can help in memorization but it is not helpful in living a wise life. These quotations are trying to solace us or divert our mind to positive thinking but life is throwing some different stuff at the readers. Therefore the readers are able to memorize those short phrases but not able to handle them or apply them. Human life needs help in asking deeper questions rather than memorizing the answers. But these quotations are trying to answer many of our life problems. Therefore for the short term it okey, but in long you become a person of words not person of wisdom. People want to use templates for everything, even for the life they are looking for a template. Using a template with least mental and cognitive burden you can solve a problem quickly. But we know these templates don’t work when we try to apply them in our life. No matter how many templates you try, your solution will come from your own deeper questions and thinking. Templates can help but ultimately only a thinking mind can endure or come out of the problem. Other people get crushed or keep crying or hoping or blaming.

Keeping this all in mind, I wrote this book. In general, quotations or passages or paragraphs in this book are longer than normal quotations. The nature of the quotations in the book is different, they are provocative, force you to think, challenge the conventional way, and encourage readers to find a new way to come out of that mindset which has made you stuck in the web of words.

99% of the quotations in this book are coming from my reflections and meditative mood. Some of the quotations of other philosophers and thinkers have been used here, names of those are written below the respective quotations. I was writing these quotations on my quotation blog for a long period of time under my pen name “Advaitananda”. I have selected some of the quotations from there creating this, compiling them here in this book.

When there are two there is a relationship. A relationship of dependent and dependee. There is expectation in the relationship. When there is only one then all the relationship and expectations fades away. Life comes to the center. Advaita is a Sanskrit word, it means not two. Advaitananda means one who is established in the bliss of the Self.

Quotation Headings

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1. Life in Living Being
2. Purpose of the Human Life
3. Transactions in the World
4. Map is not Road
5. Six Topics to Think
6. Morality vs Humanity
7. Janmashtami 2021
8. Happiness through Love
9. Creating Wonderful Human
10. Spiritual Gurus vs ML Engineer
11. Existence without Adjectives
12. Accept Life in Totality
13. Self Beyond Word
14. Worship
15. Genius is Disease
16. What is an Accident?
17. Rationality
18. What is Health?
19. Respect vs Tolerance
20. Touching Feet
21. Inactivity
22. Living and Dying
23. Do not Kill your Body
24. Looking into Eyes
25. Immortality beyond Graveyard
26. Mind is illness
27. Falling in Love
28. Do not get hooked on the words
29. Pursuing Realty in Dream
30. Life and God
31. Means and Goal
32. Meaning of Spiritual Life
33. Language of the Cosmos
34. Understanding, Interpreting, and Solutioning
35. Food Habit
36. Real Face
37. Love and Moksha
38. Happiness First
39. Life Style & Happiness
40. Love and Mind
41. Bondage is our creation
42. Sky can arrest you
43. Purpose of Education
44. Opposites Attracts
45. What should we do, for the peace of Mind?
46. Empty Mind
47. God Supports the Weaker?
48. Listener, Message and Messenger
49. Circular Life
50. Happiness and Friends
51. Suffering, Pain, and Happiness
52. Krishna and Cows
53. Travel and Direction of Travel
54. Our Mind
55. Mind and Life
56. Source of Words and Objects
57. Defending in ignorance
58. Arrogance
59. Sensitive Heart
60. Assumptions
61. Symmetry for Survival
62. Heating to Blasting
63. Vijaya Dashmi
64. Knowing Facts vs Realizing Truth
65. Angerlessness is not Virtue
66. Dissolve your Suffering
67. Reflective Mind
68. Natural Mind vs Cultured Mind
69. Level of Living Philosophy
70. Hard work vs Donkey Work
71. Interpreting Math Formula
72. Attitude towards Luck
73. Source of Happiness
74. Forgetting and Forgiving
75. Mistaking, Blaming, and Forgiving
76. World is Perfect
77. What is Nididhyasana?
78. Human Fear is Permanent
79. Awareness
80. Tragedy of Thinking
81. Objectification of Subject
82. Infinity Divider
83. Type of Mind
84. AI and Human Jobs
85. Limitation of Grammar
86. About Awareness
87. Information Bombardment
88. Three things to happen
89. Worldly Joy
90. Manas and Chaitnya
91. Price of the Freedom
92. Knowledge Base in Sanskrit
93. Types of Vedanta
94. The Way to know the Self
95. Restfulness
96. Saakshi of Mind
97. Mindless Competition
98. Context Based Learning
99. Adjusting Intensity of Mamkaar
100. Experience of True Self
101. CSR and Charitable Indian
102. Consciousness in Deep Sleep
103. Who Am I?
104. Unsupported Warranty
105. Watching your Mind
106. A Fast Moving Train
107. Time Creation