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

“A caterpillar doesn't just grow wings to become a butterfly, its entire anatomy gets reorganized, from a crawling insect to a flying wonder, including its neural pathways, the same must happen to the tribal ape, to become a civilized human. Creation is the aftermath of combustion, enlightenment is the aftermath of annihilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“In the garden of love the gardener is the flower.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I am the equation, solved by neither faith nor intellect - spin of my particles unsung by LHC, essence of my being unspliced by CRISPR.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Aşkoholic/Amorholic, 3112-3114
(Divine, Ethics and STEM)

All my youth I've done science,
now let me stay drunk, don't wake me up,
let me drift into my final slumber,
smoking, blazing, smoldering with love.

Prose I know not, nor do I know poetry,
I know no pslam, I know no surah -
you keep your cute rhyme and meter,
your cruel equations and dead dogma,
let me go rack and ruin -
costume, custom, all be cinder.

Substantially advanced spirituality
is indistinguishable from science,
and substantially advanced science
is indistinguishable from spirituality.

What good is science that can't refuse to make bombs!
What good is faith that can't refuse to hate!

Almost every scientist rejects pseudoscience
most vehemently, yet when it comes to warfare
very few seem to have the backbone to denounce it -

a sufficiently advanced scientist
eventually refuses to indulge in warfare,
not advanced in years or intellect,
but advanced in accountability,
and a truly holy person eventually
refuses to convert people.

In the garden of love the gardener is the flower,
STEM without ethics is fanaticism with glitter.
I am the equation, solved by neither faith nor intellect -
spin of my particles unsung by LHC,
essence of my being unspliced by CRISPR.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The vast terrains of the himalayas are carpeted with corpses that failed to make it, yet the Himalayas stand, indifferent and undented by the yelp reviews of apes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“La medicina no ve la fe,
my existence is the proof.

Marham na mazhab dekhe,
marham na dekhe mulk.

Kutsallık kimlik aramaz,
merhem mezhep görmez.

Rain doesn't check bank balance,
medicine doesn't require faith test.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Don't read Naskar while hanging from trees
(UnSonnet 3117)

My fire didn't break out fully
until I started writing
in three languages at once,
turkish lit the fuse,
spanish fanned the flames,
and english reaped the harvest,
and that's just half my languages.

Dervish brought the pain,
Advaitin brought the brain,
Brain Scientist brought the filter,
and Poet just held the pen,
wearing the skin of Naskar.

When Nondualist Naskar met Dervish Naskar,
my head turned into a particle accelerator,
reality cracked open, and glued back with tears,
like all my blood was poured out into a jar,
then added rocket fuel, and pumped back in.

So don't read Naskar while hanging from trees;
you don't need to speak many languages,
or feel many cultures, although it helps,
you must at least be human enough
not to think your religion is the one
true religion, your country is the best,
your culture is the greatest.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“When Nondualist Naskar met Dervish Naskar, my head turned into a particle accelerator, reality cracked open, and glued back with tears, like all my blood was poured out into a jar, then added rocket fuel, and pumped back in.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I've descended from exploding stars, there is starlight bursting in my arteries, comet-dust in my veins - I spin like a mad dervish, and particles conspire to construct the cosmos in my wake.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“There is no sufism, only conditionless love. There is no nondualism, only raceless oneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Spinning and bending and chanting don't make you holy, they are workout at most - don't confuse workout for awakening, real awakening is when children displaced in a distant land makes your blood boil, like your own home being invaded, otherwise, all that whirling and aum-ing is one big circus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Yoga doesn't mean stretching and bending like a bunch of circus animals, yoga means to erase the walls within, so that you are one whole existence, not all that quantum consciousness fairytale, just plain mundane day to day consciousness that does not see two, but one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Lover through self erasure, N.3153
(Zion is Nirvana is Sema is Samadhi)

Only real Jew is the one defending a Palestinian,
all others are recruits of the Fourth Reich.
Only Christian is the one defending immigrants,
all others are animals that crucified my brother.

Only Sanatani is the one defending a Muslim,
all others are stain upon Dharma.
True Muslim is the one who is kind
to people on the street, not the one
who only prays five times in the mosque.

Zion means universal solidarity,
Kingdom of God means universal brotherhood,
Nonduality means universal integration,
Sufi Sema means lover through self erasure.

The real test of your morality
is when you confront the animals
of your own tribe to defend a stranger,
all else is mythological cosplay.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Zion is Nirvana is Sema is Samadhi.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Naskar is the unified field theory of religions, and whether you see it as theory or practice, that's your choice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The original sin is not adam eating an apple, that's just bedtime story for adults, real original sin is when you separated god from human, and placed it in the sky.

God was human, until we invented religion. Organized religion is the original sin, that dissociated humanity from its own divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The Final Answer, Sonnet 3199
(Diary of Dervish Advaitam)

Empathy first or wisdom first?
Empathy first, wisdom follows.

Ocean bigger or a drop of water?
Distance is the delusion.

Soil sacred or rain?
Neither on their own,
but combined they make life,
that's when they fulfill their purpose.

Allah (God) first or Insan (Human) first?

Neither! Love comes first -
where there is love, God and Human are one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Empathy first or wisdom first?
Empathy first, wisdom follows.

Ocean bigger or a drop of water?
Distance is the delusion.

Allah (God) first or Insan (Human) first?
Neither! Love comes first -
where there is love, God and Human are one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“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