Cunningness Quotes

A woman cannot bear to feel empty and purposeless. But a man may take real pleasure in that feeling. A man can take real pride and satisfaction in pure negation: 'I am quite empty of feeling. I don't care the slightest bit in the world for anybody or anything except myself. But I do care for myself, and I'm going to survive in spite of them all, and I'm going to have my own success without caring the least in the world how I get it. Because I'm cleverer than they are, I'm cunninger than they are, even if I'm weak. I must build myself up proper protections, and entrench myself, and then I'm safe. I can sit inside my glass tower and feel nothing and be touched by nothing, and yet exert my power, my will, through the glass walls of my ego'. That, roughly, is the condition of a man who accepts the condition of true egoism, and emptiness, in himself. He has a certain pride in the condition, since in pure emptiness of real feeling he can still carry out his ambition, his will to egoistic success. Now I doubt if a woman can feel like this. The most egoistic woman is always in a tangle of hate, if not of love. But the true male egoist neither hates nor loves. He is quite empty, at the middle of him. Only on the surface he has feelings: and these he is always trying to get away from. Inwardly, he feels nothing. And when he feels nothing, he exults in his ego and knows he is safe. Safe, within his fortifications, inside his glass tower. But I doubt if women can even understand this condition in a man. They mistake emptiness for depth. They think the false calm of the egoist who really feels nothing is strength. And they imagine that all the defenses which the confirmed egoist throws up, the glass tower of imperviousness, are screens to a real man, a positive being. And they throw themselves madly on the defences, to tear them down and come at the real man, little knowing that there is no real man, the defences are only there to protect a hollow emptiness, an egoism, not a human man.

Victory belongs to a man who can conquer the cunningness of war, of deceit and fairness.

Innocence gives you bruises but saves you from fatal wounds. Cunningness saves you from bruises but gives you fatal wounds. Spiritual knowledge takes you from ignorance to innocence.

I am quite empty of feeling. I don't care the slightest bit in the world for anybody or anything except myself. But I do care for myself, and I'm going to survive in spite of them all, and I'm going to have my own success without caring the least in the world how I get it. Because I'm cleverer than they are, I'm cunninger than they are, even if I'm weak. I must build myself up proper protections, and entrench myself, and then I'm safe. I can sit inside my glass tower and feel nothing and be touched by nothing, and yet exert my power, my will, through the glass walls of my ego.

Navin Sapru’s friend, the poet and writer Maharaj Krishan Santoshi, wrote a poem on his death. In ‘Naveen my friend’, Santoshi writes: Naveen was my friend Killed he was, in Habba Kadal while on the tailor’s hanger remained hung his warm coat. Passing as it did through scissors and thread–needle in the tailor’s hand, till the previous day it was merely a person’s coat that suddenly was turned into a Hindu’s coat In the last stanza the poet writes: I used to ask him every time why doesn’t he possess the cunningness of Srinagar I still await his response My friend! Yes, I changed my address since after your murder it ceased to exist the bridge of friendship, this Habba Kadal

*ALL YOUR VERBALISATION IS BLABBERING. WHEN YOU ARE NOT BLABBERING, YOU CAN RETAIN THE COGNITION. *IF YOU MAKE YOUR COMMUNICATION ONLY THROUGH WRITING, YOU CAN ALWAYS MAKE SURE: ‘YES I AM FROM THAT SPACE. I AM HERE AS PARAMASHIVA AND THE OTHER IS ALSO PARAMASHIVA, SO I AM HERE TO BE ULTIMATELY INTEGRATED, NOT BE CHEATING, EXPLOITING, WITH CUNNINGNESS OR BEING STRATEGIC IN THE RELATIONSHIP. *IT WILL BECOME CONSCIOUS SOVEREIGNTY: INTEGRITY TO INTEGRITY, PARAMASHIVA TO PARAMASHIVA, ONENESS TO ONENESS! *DECIDE: ‘IF THERE IS A CONFLICT, I WILL EXPLAIN MY CONFLICT AND INSECURITY AND FEARS TO THIS PARAMASHIVA, KNOWING THAT THIS PARAMASHIVA WILL NOT EXPLOIT. THIS PARAMASHIVA WILL NOT EXPLOIT ME, BUT WILL ONLY SUPPORT ME IN MANIFESTING MY PARAMASHIVATVA MORE AND MORE.’ *MOST OF YOUR DELUDED INSECURITIES WILL MELT DOWN. *YOU WILL KNOW ONLY THE ‘REAL PROBLEM’ AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT! *I KNOW THE POWERFULNESS OF THIS SAMADHI. I HAVE SEEN MY GURUS DOING IT AND I HAVE DONE IT.

What is the lowest form of life in this world? Is it theft, cunningness, or falsehood? There is no state that is lower than the yearning to be worshipped by people. The desire to be worshipped while being unworthy of worship is very wrong indeed.

The sad truth of our glorious land is that our countrymen do not lack in wisdom, courage and intellect; but they do not lack in treachery, cunningness and avarice either. The smell and sight of gold is enough to send all our patriotism down the drain. We were certainly conquered by the external enemy, but more significantly by the enemy within. The misfortune, however, remains that we have not learnt any lessons from history, which they say repeats itself because nobody was listening the first time, and continue to divide ourselves along narrow, petty lines.

a man’s actions revealed their true intentions, while words only revealed a man’s cunningness.

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

I wasn't pissed off; I was just robbed of most of the cocky confidence my cunningness had created.

Polite people are very cunning, clever. They know what to say, what to do, so that they can exploit you. If they say, “I am somebody,” everybody is against them. Then conflict arises because everybody thinks that he is an egoist. It will be difficult to exploit people then because everybody is closed, against you. If you say, “I am nobody, I am just dust on your feet,” then the doors are open and you can exploit. All etiquette, culture, is a type of sophisticated cunningness, you are exploiting.