Abhijit Naskar Quotes - Page 15

All great achievements are attained through mighty obstacles.

You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it - you are born to build it.

Be Gods and make Gods.

It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.

Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things shall follow.

True love is 20 percent care and 80 percent understanding.

Either one is promiscuous or in a relationship - it cannot be both at the same time.

Do not seek for the best partner, but seek for the person who makes you a better version of yourself.

Do not let the evil become our masters, but make the good reign upon the world.

Infinite patience, infinite purity and infinite perseverance are the key elements of achieving your desired goal.

Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination more importance than the reality.

Genes come together to construct a magnificent life-form, while neurons come together to form our Illusion of Consciousness.

All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.

Everyday conscious awareness of a human being is only the tip of an iceberg, underneath which there is a realm of relatively uncharted apparently mysterious processes, which are likely to be way more complex than the usual waking state.

Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism.

Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future.

Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.

Forget the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas, the Granth Sahib, and all the scriptures in the world. None of them will show you the Great Eternal Truth. None of them will show you the Kingdom of God, for the real Kingdom of the Ultimate Truth is inside your mind. It was born in you when you were born. And it will cease to exist when you die. Your mind is not merely the vehicle of God, rather it is the life-force that keeps God alive. Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God.

​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.

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

Women are no sheep.

Sex is not just about going in or letting in, it is really about welcoming your dearly beloved into the deepest regions of your psyche which are inaccessible to anybody else.

Don’t ask for miracles. You are the living embodiment of all the miracles in the world.

Non-violent resistance to evil is a quintessential element of the character of a real human being. If someone does wrong to me, I may be physically capable of breaking his jaw with one blow of my fist, but such violent reciprocation does not define the strength of my character as a real human being. If I succeed in resisting my limbic urge to do harm in return, then only can I be hailed as human being of real character.

Beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship.

Harmony also is not a luxury, it is an evolutionary necessity, if we are to advance further. And harmony cannot be compromised for any book in the world, no matter how ancient, or who wrote it.

I am not an advocate for religion. I only advocate for sweet general harmony.

What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works.

The highest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.

​You can find the answers to the most complicated questions of life from your deepest self. Pay attention and listen.

No God, no messiah, no prophet can grant your wishes – it is only through your own efforts that you can make your wishes come true – it is only you who can grant your own wishes.

I had to make a choice, either take care of my family and become a good son, or be a bad son and start working towards constructing a world of harmony and peace. I chose the later.

Never waste your precious time in discussing the good and bad qualities of others.

Confidence of a dedicated person, seems to be over-confidence to ordinary masses.

When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.

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

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

If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by all means, be it.

Religious unity does not come so easily. It is not a piece of pie, which you can buy in the shop. It takes sincere efforts from every single human being on this planet.

Your fate lies in your hands.

Only you can save yourself.

Education is not the amount of information that is pushed into the brain and causes havoc there, undigested all through a lifetime. Education must be a symposium of life-building, character- making and assimilation of ideas in the pursuit of building a more harmonious, peaceful and truly civilized world.

Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.

Once you die, that’s it – game over. Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self.

The greatest Church is within you, and it is made of love, courage and conscience.

There is no God in Buddha’s teachings. There is no religious ritual in Buddha’s teachings. All that there is, is simple “Karma” or “Work” – that is the “Dhamma” or “Duty” or “Religion” he preached.

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.

Homosexuality is nature’s way of keeping the population in check.

It is more practical to make people transform their mindset about religion and religiousness and walk in the path of creed-less religious harmony, than to convert the entire religious population on earth into atheists.

God is created by the brain and can also be destroyed by the brain. But this way ‘Love’ doesn’t exist either, because it also is the result of molecular interaction within the brain. Love is a result of complex and mind-blowing interactions between neurotransmitters like Oxytocin, Dopamine, Serotonin, Endorphins and the reward center of the brain. Does this mean we should downright stop loving our family or friends? Since there is no existence of actual ‘Love’, should we just deny what our heart feels for our beloved ones? Whatever the answer is, the same goes for the faith upon divine existence. Only one thing to remember – Love gives life, so should faith.

English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through which I flirt with my species. English is the language through which I make my species think.

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

Mind and Soul are one and the same thing.

A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.

Truth does not need publicity, lies do.

Nanak wanted to preach people that God loves both the Hindus and the Muslims the same way. Believing in his spiritual encounter, he wanted to eliminate the distance between the Hindus and the Muslims by teaching the words of equality and One God. But just like usual, he ended up forming yet another religion which became more and more hardcore with its own rituals and regulations in the hands of the subsequent nine Gurus.

Let your child see you doing a good deed instead of you telling him or her to do it, and the little child shall one day grow up to become a real kind human being.

All experiences, emotions, behaviors and beliefs, that make us humans, are the creation of various intricate and inexplicable molecular interactions within the brain.

If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Salvation not shared, is salvation wasted.