Brainy Quotes Quotes

Most of Jesus’ life is told through the four Gospels of the New Testament, known as the Canonical gospels, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are not biographies in the modern sense but accounts with allegorical intent. They are written to engender faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and not to provide factual data about Jesus’s life. This left the door of exaggeration open. And through that door all kinds of mystical non-sense crept in and made place right alongside the good philosophical teachings of Jesus.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Never forget O Brave One, the best kind of existence is to exist for others.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Despite the fact that we cannot be absolutely altruistic in our behavior, we can still build our character to be loving and compassionate – to empathize with others.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Quran, like most other scriptures, is a book of most wonderful truth mixed with the most disgraceful superstitions of human nature.

~ Abhijit Naskar

All states of consciousness, no matter how mystical, ecstatic or divine, are gloriously born through the protoplasmic activity of the brain.

~ Abhijit Naskar

All endeavors, heroic or monstrous, scientific or philosophical, rise from the electrochemical functioning of the mind, that takes place relentlessly in the little specks of protoplasm inside the head. These specks of jelly inside the brain, known as the neurons, determine our identity, personality and everything that we are.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.

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The only sin in this world is to lose faith in yourself.

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Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Consciousness is simply the brain’s neural response to its surrounding environmental stimuli. Hence when the neural circuits malfunction, Consciousness tends to malfunction as well.

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Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Each of the sapiens brains generates its own perception of God in uniquely different ways. Ergo, it imposes different qualities of meaning and value on God. You see God the way your brain wants you to see it. There is no right and wrong, or fact and fiction on this matter. It is all personal.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves.

~ Abhijit Naskar

​The human brain creates everything that you are.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.

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What we are at this very moment, is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment.

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In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption.

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The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have.

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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 quarrelling with one another.

~ Abhijit Naskar

You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

You can get the man out of stone-age, but not stone-age out of man.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

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Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s intelligence – it does not define an individual’s ambitions - it does not define an individual’s dreams – and above all, it does not define an individual’s character.

~ Abhijit Naskar

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

~ Abhijit Naskar

No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is.

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If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil.

~ Abhijit Naskar

We humans are the gods of this planet. And we also have created Superior Gods than us, to have a sense of security.

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As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them.

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it is high time we stop using the term “theory” while mentioning Evolution. The term “theory” somehow makes some people think of Evolution as an unproven “hypothesis”. Theory of Evolution is an incontrovertible fact of science. It is not a fictitious story like Creationism. It’s a hard reality. It is the bed-rock of Biology. Defying evolution means defying one’s own existence as a human being.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I once renounced my home in Calcutta, and roamed around the villages of Bengal as a monk. But after I attained the Absolute Divine state of Unification with the Universe, I realized that the purpose of life is not renunciation of anything, but the realization of the purpose itself.

~ Abhijit Naskar