Brainy Quotes Quotes

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

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

Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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

~ Abhijit Naskar

What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!

~ Abhijit Naskar

Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with needs. Needs are necessity, but wants are luxury.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.

~ Abhijit Naskar

All answers that you seek can only be found within.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Whether in the name of Just War, Witch-Hunt or the Inquisition, at various points of history for various poppycock reasons the cross had been the weapon of mass destruction in the hands of the orthodox church.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Think of the good that Christ imparted on the society. And think of the great evil that has been done through fanaticism over one damn phrase “salvation through Christ, the Son of God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It’s time that Christianity should be redefined by the world based upon the original teachings of Jesus, instead of the Old and New Testaments which have been interpreted, reinterpreted and distorted by all the Ecumenical Councils, i.e. the Church Councils.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Religion, as it is generally taught all over the world, is said to be based upon faith and belief, and, in most cases, consists only of different sets of theories, and that is the reason why we find all religions quarreling with one another. These theories, again, are based upon belief. One man says there is a Supreme Being sitting above the clouds governing the whole universe, and he asks me to believe that solely on the authority of his assertion. But if you actually attempt to realize what Christ realized, the entire structure of the Church would collapse.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Mother Nature gave Jesus, the Son of Nature the biological elements to see things that nobody else could, or rather nobody else would. And you are the child of Nature as well. As such you have all the powers within you, just like Jesus, to rise above the laws of the society that tend to bind your conscience with textual mysticism and fanaticism.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Jesus recognized that God within him and became Christ - so did Siddhartha Gautama and became Buddha - so did I - and so can you.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If we ask a random orthodox religious person, what is the best religion, he or she would proudly claim his or her own religion to be the best. A Christian would say Christianity is the best, a Muslim would say Islam is the best, a Jewish would say Judaism is the best and a Hindu would say Hinduism is the best. It takes a lot of mental exercise to get rid of such biases.

~ Abhijit Naskar

By infusing Jesus the man with the divine magic – by making him capable of earthly miracles as well as his own resurrection, the early church turned him into a god within the human world. Thus, the church reinforced the monopoly on the so-called route to heaven, i.e. salvation only through Jesus Christ. And during those days, whoever kept the keys to heaven would rule the world.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A healthy brain leads to a healthy you.

~ Abhijit Naskar

My question to the atheist is, do you want an atheist world or a peaceful world? And to the believer, do you want a religious world or a peaceful world? Religious orientation doesn't define peace, but the answer here may define one's true nature.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A handful of lion-hearts can wake the whole world up.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Religious unity and religious tolerance are not the same thing. Unity doesn’t come merely through tolerance. You don’t need to tolerate people from other religions. It is time you start loving them. Toleration may make you a decent person, but it is love that makes you a true human being.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot make progress.

~ Abhijit Naskar

In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Dare to exercise rational thinking.

~ Abhijit Naskar

​Through ignorance a common man considers his own religion to be the best and makes much useless claims, but when his mind is illuminated by Self-Knowledge, all sectarian quarrels disappear.

~ Abhijit Naskar

One who has just learnt a foreign language, constantly resorts, while talking, to words belonging to that language in order to make a show of his or her achievement. But one who knows the language well, seldom uses it when speaking in his or her own mother tongue. Such is the case with those who are well advanced in religion.

~ Abhijit Naskar

First know the Self and then talk of social reformation.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Never question the conviction of a scientist, based on mere scriptures.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The more you learn the biology behind your every action, emotion and behavior, the better you become at accepting others the way they are.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I dare to believe in the beauty of my dreams, and I use my imagination to see them fulfilled.

~ Steven Cuoco

​You are only limited by your imagination.

~ Abhijit Naskar

life is a continuous exercise is creative problem solving

~ Michael J Gelb

step by step, the language of orderliness.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You cannot move forward in your life if you do not allow yourself to move.

~ Steven Cuoco

Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient Indian man named Vyasa.

~ Abhijit Naskar