Abhijit Naskar Quotes

If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the fundamentalist Australopithecines are particularly harmful. These beliefs are what we call delusions. Except unlike in a neuropsychological ailment, the delusion of the fundamentalists is not just harmful for the individuals suffering from it, but more importantly it is the greatest threat to peace, progress and wellbeing of the entire human species.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Belief is not a luxury, it is a biological necessity of the mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Any thought sequence that minimizes anxiety would get reinforced over time. The sequence would be maintained during the person’s development and would be provoked in contexts where refutation of the belief might occur. So, any kind of refutation of a person’s religious beliefs makes the beliefs only stronger.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience.

~ Abhijit Naskar

​Blind faith may be healthy for the individual mind, but it is not religion.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It doesn’t matter whether you face the wall, the sky or the ground. It doesn’t matter what is your body posture while you are praying to God. It doesn’t matter whether you sit in a lotus position, or a bogus position, neither does it bother God whether your palms are joined together, or your arms wide open. God would still answer your prayers, not because he/she loves you all as his/her children, rather because you believe that God does.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Every brain on your planet generates its own beliefs. Just imagine, around seven billion human brains are generating seven billion unique beliefs at this very moment. Now imagine, what would happen, if all those seven billion humans start imposing their own beliefs on each other. The only thing that is going to come out of such inhuman attempt is chaos and eventually mass extinction. So, the only way to avoid such a catastrophic consequence is to be more compassionate about people’s beliefs.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Masturbating is no more sinful than praying or meditating.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Essentially prayer and meditation are one and the same thing.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A prayer/meditation a day, keeps the Doctor away.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Meditation is good for the elderly, great for adults, even greater for children, and greater still for pregnant women. So, meditate and be well.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Meditation is the vitamin for your mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Do not force your mind to get rid of random thoughts, because your brain is simply not capable of doing so. Instead, when you sit to practise meditation, let the thoughts come and go, just don’t serve them tea. Over time, that background noise inside your head would disappear.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Nirvana is too simple an experience to be depicted by diagrams.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The self, when confined into the usual wakeful state of consciousness, is human, but when enters into the transcendental state of Absolute Oneness, becomes God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself. Such an experience of divine ecstasy neurologically transformed him into a great teacher for humanity filled with love, kindness and divinity.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Usually, when people hear the term Yoga, many of them associate it with various physical exercises where they need to twist, turn and stretch their body in complex ways that are known as Asanas, but this is only one type of Yoga, called “Hatha-Yoga”. In reality, Yoga is an umbrella term for various physical and mental exercises that lead to the overall well-being of a person.By origin, Yoga has mainly five forms:1. Raja Yoga - The realization of divinity through intense meditation2. Karma Yoga – The realization of divine bliss through your own daily activities and duties3. Hatha Yoga – The realization of divine well-being through various physical exercises4. Jyana Yoga – The realization of inexplicable bliss in the pursuit of knowledge5. Bhakti Yoga – The realization of ecstasy through love and devotion for your Personal GodThe purpose of all Yogas is to set your consciousness lose into the vast domain of the unknown, where your brain circuits simulate various fascinating mental states that are usually unimaginable and unattainable in your everyday consciousness. But the whole yoga thing has nothing to do with God or something of that sort. It is all about various states of the human mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Thus, on a functional level, your meditation triggers the corresponding neurobiological networks that are responsible for eliciting health effects.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Upon entering into the divine domain of transcendence, all these religious founders truly felt that they had accessed the true meaning of the universe, while in reality, what they had access to, in that state of mind, was their inner self.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Meditation is the brain's way to exercise.

~ Abhijit Naskar

In the non-dual state, God, soul and universe are essentially one absolute system which is all-pervading, uncreated, self-luminous and eternal.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Awakening into the God state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is the ultimate religion, through which the son, the Father and all elements of the universe become unified.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If there is a God you must see it (literally), even clearer than you see this page, otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist, than a hypocrite.

~ Abhijit Naskar

First law of pleasurable love-making in the long run, is that you don't keep naked pictures of your partner on your phone.

~ Abhijit Naskar

All women desire one simple quality in their partner, which is understanding.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The brain becomes illogical, in the throes of new romance.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Our primitive ancestors learnt various behavioral characteristics like jealousy, possessiveness and aggression to ensure the survival of their wild love life in the harsh environment of Mother Nature. And all those behavioral responses eventually got engraved in our genetic blueprint. So, these are not the enemies in the path of a healthy relationship, rather when utilized properly they can even kindle the spark in a dying relationship.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Salvation of human life requires disclosure of truth through reason, surpassing bigotry.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Even a thousand loud lies become powerless in front of one calm truth.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Truth does not need publicity, lies do.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Oscar may be the world’s most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.

~ Abhijit Naskar