Brainy Quotes Quotes

Once you emerge from the state of absolute divinity, the self within you becomes Christ – it becomes Buddha – it becomes Moses – it becomes Krishna. The sage who emerges from the state of non-duality begins to perceive the self as Christ, not Christ as Christ – the self as Moses, not Moses as Moses – the self as Mohammed, not Mohammed as Mohammed – the self as Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Once you attain the state of Absolute Oneness or Non-Duality, you become one of those spiritual legends that humanity so gloriously venerates as the founding fathers of religion.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Say, you teach a five year old child a few verses from the Bible. And after memorizing them, he will become a part scholar in Christian theology. But that won’t make him realize what Jesus actually meant when he said 'love thy neighbor'.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Art is the medicine for the soul.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Peace first, sophistication later. Harmony first, luxury later.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Arise my friend, Awake my friend and work for humanity, not to make it sophisticated, but to make it peaceful first.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Be Gods and make Gods.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Sacrifice everything that is yours, to call up the humans in others.

~ Abhijit Naskar

O my mighty sisters and brothers, forget not that the ideal of humanity is the search of truth. In this pursuit, countless souls have sacrificed themselves in the past. And in this pursuit, countless more shall need to sacrifice themselves.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Arise O lion-heart! Awake, O great soldier! Misery has come upon the world. It is wailing for help. It is wailing for redemption. Won’t you do anything, my friend!

~ Abhijit Naskar

Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)

~ Abhijit Naskar

Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward and onward, until the Self within you morphs into Krishna – until the Self morphs into Buddha – until the Self turns into Christ.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Only you can save yourself.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Excellence doesn’t come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Stop grovelling and start working.

~ Abhijit Naskar

You are born to build the society, not to follow it.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The world needs heroes. Be a hero and build your part of the world.

~ Abhijit Naskar

You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Throw away the newspapers. Discard all the useless debates and gossiping. Start working in silence. Start working on your passion. And make the news yourself.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.

~ Abhijit Naskar

a great reason why a gloomy history may repeat itself is that we may have neglected what history did. When we neglect what history did, history visits us in the same cloth

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Modern society is modern because of its mental cocktail of reasoning and compassion. Turn the compassion network in the brain off, and it will be a society of heartless robots. On the other hand, turn the reasoning network off, and it will be a society of dumb sentimental apes.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is your existential responsibility to raise your child as a human being above everything else – catholic, muslim, jew, asian, caucasian or whatever.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Accepting evil is worse than committing evil.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Accepting evil is worse than committing evil. You must – I repeat – you must, as a human being, stand up on the side of humanism, against barbarian inhumanism, for it is your action, that shall determine whether your children shall live in a world of peace and harmony or a world of chaos and discriminations.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Homosexuals are not made, they are born.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Discriminations are never a sign of a civilized society. What makes us civilized is our act of liberated kindness with other people beyond the man-made primitive citadels of gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Discriminations suit animals, not humans. And yet, the unfortunate reality is, it is the humans that discriminate each other on the grounds of imaginary labels, not the animals. This way, animals are more civilized than humans.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Homosexuality is immutable, irreversible and nonpathological.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist ape - a theoretical pest from the stone-age, that somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect.

~ Abhijit Naskar