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

“Your dictionaries are too small for my voice, your disciplines are too primitive for my existence - not with intellect, not with faith - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Not with intellect, not with faith - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“To read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“By the time I'm finished with religion, religion would be more allergic to superstition and prejudice than science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Your dictionaries are too small for my voice, your disciplines are too primitive for my existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I'm a mad monk,
I won't return to paradise -
the world is a giant headache,
yet my suffering is my cure.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I'm exhausted, I want to sleep, but I'm afraid, if I fall asleep, I might not wake up - so I toil, till the soil is human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Insan Chalisa (Excerpt)

Jai Insan, Chetna Sagar;
Jai Vivek, Vidyut Ujagar.
Rise Insan, Ilaaj Ilahi;
Al Hub, Hayat Paygamber.

Ik Onkar, Satnam Shahada;
One Insan Bodhi Vihara.
Born of Ash, Deed Amartya;
Once Ignited, Ashiq Ananta.

Vision Virat, Vajra Avinashi;
Kafir Kareem to Vidyesh Vinashi.
Unbent Akhanda in Realm Divided,
Dervish Divaane, Advaita Ruhani.

Ek Insan, Hoonkar-e Asmaan,
Khalsa in Veins, Noor-e Nadaan;
no togetherness, no tomorrow -
Awake, Arise, O Christly Insan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Wandering the earth as a monk scientist
I've understood one thing about converts -
people convert to christianity looking for bread,
people convert to hinduism looking for answers,
people convert to buddhism in search of freedom,
people convert to islam in order to heal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Wandering the earth as a monk scientist I've understood one thing about converts - people convert to christianity looking for bread, people convert to hinduism looking for answers, people convert to buddhism in search of freedom, people convert to islam in order to heal - it has nothing to do with god, it has nothing to do with truth - every person carries a secret wound, religion we run to is the bandage that fits.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Don't Be The Salt (Sonnet)

Wandering the earth as a monk scientist
I've understood one thing about converts -
people convert to christianity looking for bread,
people convert to hinduism looking for answers,
people convert to buddhism in search of freedom,
people convert to islam in order to heal -

it has nothing to do with god,
it has nothing to do with truth -
every person carries a secret wound,
religion we run to is the bandage that fits.

I am born of dust, and as I'm nearing to be dust again,
my tolerance of intolerance has become apocalyptic.
We are all wounded, looking for a bandaid -
some act like salt, I choose to be ointment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“An Indian is pluralism personified, take away pluralism, and you're left with a monkey draped in saffron.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Ananta knows no foreign-sanatan, either Hindutva or Human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“There is not one but two India, Animal India and Human India - Animal India carries Gita like Gun, Human India celebrates Diwali, breaks bread on Iftar, and sings Merry Christmas, with Gurbani.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Either Hindutva or Human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Saffron was never the color of India, India is the most spectacular rainbow among the ancient of civilizations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Within the immensity of space floats a tiny atom of consciousness and in it the entire universe is contained.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj

“I too am a creationist - I am the creation, and the creator is me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“No Other, But One
(Naskaristana 2503)

Some say tawhid,
some say advaita,
some say ubuntu,
some say divinidad.

Tawhid doesn't mean
all other gods are false,
tawhid means it's all one god.

Divinity doesn't mean
mortal must submit to divine,
divinity means mortal and divine are one.

Divinity done properly dissolves the self,
poetry done passionately dissolves the self,
neuroscience done honestly dissolves the self.

Shallow theology fights science,
deep theology becomes it.
Shallow science fights spirituality,
deep science becomes it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Some say tawhid,
some say advaita,
some say ubuntu,
some say divinidad.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I am not your peer (Naskaristana 2734-2735)

I spent my youth building reputation,
then I spent a life setting fire to it,
because reputation among sectarian apes
only means that I've failed as a human.

Either you build reputation
or you build civilization -
there is no greater dishonor than
being respected across the mental asylum.

Early Naskar, 2015-17, was mostly borrowed
research with occasional original Naskar,
mid Naskar, 2017-21, was mostly original Naskar
with occasional borrowed data,
late phase Naskar, 2021 onward, is pure Naskar,
beyond the scale and scope of institutions.

I'm not your peer that you can review me,
you grew up believing world war 2
as the big battle between good and evil,
you grew up worshipping churchill as hero,
you believe philosophy was invented in greece,
with that kind of prehistoric intellect
you're going to review a multicultural mind -

you don't peer review the Himalayas,
you chart the course according
to your own limited capacity,
so you may one day climb the summit,
and when you do, I'll be waiting with a cup of tea.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I’m not your peer that you can review me, you grew up believing world war 2 as the big battle between good and evil, you grew up worshipping churchill as hero, you believe philosophy was invented in greece, with that kind of prehistoric intellect you’re going to review a multicultural mind – you don’t peer review the Himalayas, you chart the course according to your own limited capacity, so you may one day climb the summit, and when you do, I’ll be waiting with a cup of tea.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace