Advaita Quotes

“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.”
― Vivekananda

“There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor achievement.
This is the final truth.”
― Ramana Maharshi, Sayings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

“It is only through silent awareness that our physical and mental nature can change. This change is completely spontaneous. If we make an effort to change we do no more than shift our attention from one level, from one thing, to another. We remain in a vicious circle. This only transfers energy from one point to another. It still leaves us oscillating between suffering and pleasure, each leading inevitably back to the other. Only living stillness, stillness without someone trying to be still, is capable of undoing the conditioning our biologoical, emotional and psychological nature has undergone. There is no controller, no selector, no personality making choices. In choiceless living the situation is given the freedom to unfold. You do not grasp one aspect over another for there is nobody to grasp. When you understand something and live it without being stuck to the formulation, what you have understood dissolves in your openness. In this silence change takes place of its own accord, the problem is resolved and duality ends. You are left in your glory where no one has understood and nothing has been understood.”
― Jean Klein, I Am

“It [realization of Oneness] means being constantly open to the possibility that we are like two flowers looking at each other from two different branches of the same tree, so that if we were to go deep enough inside to the trunk, we would realize that we are one. Just being open to this possibility will have a profound effect on your relationships and on your experience of the world.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Have you ever seen a stereogram?
The 'Truth' the Stereogram shows us is there in front of us. Training and work doesn't make us see it.
It's a point of view, a different way of looking at it.
When you see it you try to explain it to someone else and you
realize you can't.
It simple, super simple, yet almost impossible to explain.
There are 'techniques' to see them but some people may spend
years trying without results. Others can do it in seconds.
It doesn't change the fact that the image is there all the time in
front of us.
And it's Beautiful.”
― T.R. Cordón, GLIMPSES OF HER

“Hand of human is the hand of god.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“The Poet Idiot
(Sonnet 3138/ Song 2)

Some call me a dervish,
and some call advaitin.
All fight over garments,
and none cares for a human.

Some chained to the doctrine,
and some chained to equation.
Some just wanna prove god,
and some nonexistence.

Some say, I'm a sufi,
and some say, I'm a scientist.
Larger than a mountain,
yet smaller than an atom.

What good is a knife that is
all blade, and no handle!
What good is a brain that is
devoid of compassion!

Some call me a poet,
and some call me an idiot.
I just am a Human
igniting toleration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I walk the line between fact and fiction, I inhabit the space between sane and insane, until you develop a mind capable of containing seemingly paradoxical ideas without collapsing, you are not ready to enter the Naskar garden - you can enter, but it'll all feel alien.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Dervish in the monastery,
sanyasi in the dargah,
or is it the other way around -
language is a paradoxical obstacle to love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Dervish in the monastery,
sanyasi in the dargah,
or is it the other way around -
language is a paradoxical obstacle to love.

I speak of one love, yet I have to translate
it in a million languages to make billions
realize that I speak of the same thing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Har Vatan Mera Vatan "Dervish Advaita Song"

Dharm se nahi, karm se hum
baney khudh hi Vishwaroop.
Sab se upar sach hai Insan,
reeti rivaaz andha jhooth.

Na hi sarhad, na hi sanskar,
dil me sirf Insaniyat.
Rashtrabhakti dar ka dhandha,
bhed bhao haivaniyat.

Na koi dev aur na hi daasi,
na koi kafir, na hi santh.
Har deewar ijaad siyasi,
moksh matlab man akhand.

Har vatan mera vatan,
aur ashiqui kanuniyat.
Har wajood mitti se banta,
boond boond roohaniyat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Na hi sarhad, na hi sanskar,
dil me sirf Insaniyat.
Rashtrabhakti dar ka dhandha,
bhed bhao haivaniyat.

Na koi dev aur na hi daasi,
na koi kafir, na hi santh.
Har deewar ijaad siyasi,
moksh matlab man akhand.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Har vatan mera vatan,
aur ashiqui kanuniyat.
Har wajood mitti se banta,
boond boond roohaniyat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Every heart is seat of God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“The God Song
(Sonnet 3234-3235)

I saw the priest promoting faith,
and saw the scientist talking science,
politicians selling purity,
saw the yogis fake divine.

Science of apes first serve the rich,
and god of apes first serve the rich,
technology first serve the rich,
democracy first serve the rich,

and that is what you call advancement,
rest of world is afterthought -
such advancement, no advancement,
such religion kills the god.

God is not a prison warden,
god is not a psycho twit -
god is not in whirling motion,
neither in fancy retreat;

proof of sacred, not obedience,
less we holy, more the walls -
every wall political product,
nation-state is circus hall.

Ape religion count the converts,
ape democracy count the corpse;
tear the walls of "holy see",
for every heart is seat of God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“God is not a prison warden,
god is not a psycho twit -
god is not in whirling motion,
neither in fancy retreat;

proof of sacred, not obedience,
less we holy, more the walls -
every wall political product,
nation-state is circus hall.

Ape religion count the converts,
ape democracy count the corpse;
tear the walls of "holy see",
for every heart is seat of God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Ape religion count the converts,
ape democracy count the corpse;
tear the walls of "holy see",
for every heart is seat of God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Father and Son are one,
Son and I are one,
I and You are one,
divide is delusion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Take your tallest church steeples, take your largest congress halls, they still won’t reach my ankle. nor contain a Naskarful World.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“The dust on my desk is more sacred than your altars.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“The dust on my desk is more sacred than the altar, the good sweat of service is true holy water.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Mukti is not an escape from the world. It is the recognition that one was never separate from the source of the world”
― Rajesh Chowdhry, The Eternal Thread: Consciousness, Quantum Field, & The Path to Mukti: Blending Quantum Physics, Indian Philosophy, and the Journey to Liberation

“Proof of sacred, not obedience,
less we holy, more the walls -
every wall political product,
nation-state is circus hall.

Ape religion count the converts,
tear the walls of "holy see",
for every heart is seat of God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“In this world there is nobody else, only reflections of myself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“There's no such thing as enlightened beings,
no saints, no mystics, no chosen ones,
there's just decent human beings,
with occasional mishaps and screwups,
and intermittent bouts of despair -

that's all we can be,
decent human beings,
that's all that matters,
not idealist, not absolutist,
just ordinary, accountable and decent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Kainabi, Sonnet 3230
(Don't take too literally)

Silence is the mother tongue of the universe,
integration is her first instinct,
integration of matter, integration of force,
integration of all existence, that's why
a drop of water makes a perfect bubble
in pressurized but gravityless conditions -

and in the absence of a spacesuit to maintain
a pressurized barrier between skin and vacuum,
every drop of liquid in our body starts boiling,
in order to disperse into its surroundings,
because oneness is the law of the cosmos,
whereas disintegration, sectarianism,
and discrimination, are status quo of the apes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“The dust on my desk is
more sacred than your altars,
the mud on my feet is
more wise than your scriptures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Naskar Islam
(Sonnet 3301/ Song 17)

Islam is to feed the hungry,
Islam is to wipe the tears.
Islam is to break the fast
of apathy, and to break the fears.

Islam is to heal the sick,
and Islam is to warm the cold.
Islam is to see no faith,
and help the wounded, hell with gold!

Hell with interest, hell with booze,
Islam means giving up your shoes.
Every being who stands for peace
is practicing muslim by ruh.

Convert you not, convert you none,
only stretch your arms a bit,
grab the hand of a drowning one,
jannah blooms under our feet.

Iftar is to share the Moon,
and Ramadan is to be the Sun.
Name I hold - Naskar Islam,
here I stand Advait-Insan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sanyasi Scientist: Black, White, Muslim, Christian, All Are My Sisters and Brothers