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

“Naskar Dance (Sonnet 2826-2830)

It all starts with a whisper in the spine,
a quiet little glitch in the grand design -
labels start melting like sugar in tea,
suddenly you’re thinking dangerously free.

Ink catches fire, pages take flight,
turning old dogmas into kindle wood.
Feet tap truth you never rehearsed,
mind becomes conduit for global good.

No uniform, no scripted stance,
surfing chaos do the Naskar dance -
every chaos is order divine,
every order is chaos enhanced.

Do the Naskar Dance, spin the system around,
kick down the borders, redraw the ground!
Clap to the rhythm of a mind unchained,
laugh like a rebel beautifully deranged!

Now tear that label, let it fall apart -
every revolution starts in the heart.
Do the Naskar Dance, no fear, no trance,
just a world wide human dance.

Every step is a thesis, every twirl’s a fight,
between borrowed shadows and your own light.
Juggling thousand questions, remix history mid-air,
with glitter, grit, and existential flair.

Swim through tsunami and flip the beat,
turn every doubt into dancing feet.
Snap to the sound of a breaking norm,
you’re the calm and the cognitive storm!

Dismantle the cage, let the nerves enhance -
your mind is the stage, so take your stance!
Do the Naskar Dance, always advance -
in a joyful, jaw-dropping, rebel prance!

Left foot - question everything!
Right foot - believe blind in nothing!
Spin once - lose the fear they sold!
Jump up - rewrite the truth you're told!

Heads held high, no flags to raise,
just human hearts in cosmic blaze!
No tribe, no throne, no final stance,
only an ever-evolving, self-correcting dance.

No permission required, no circumstance,
just sheer existence in defiant dance!
Apply the brain, but lead with heart,
in a whimsical, wonderful, oneness dance!

Do the Naskar Dance, let the jungle shake,
every move is a choice you make.
Sing with your bones, think with your skin,
don't bend your spine like roaches and apeling!

No finish line, no afterlife,
just this moment of unflinching light.
It's the Naskar Fever, side effects include -
rewriting the world, you may experience thoughts
too wide, and sudden urges to dissolve divide.

It's the Naskar Fever, no calm no chill,
mind keeps climbing its own free will.
From late night quotes to cosmic view,
now every me feels part of you!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Your dictionaries are too small for my voice, your disciplines are too primitive for my existence - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“If you could finish even half of what I've written, you'd either hate me enough to kill, or you'd be so massive a human that everywhere you look you'd find your own reflection, wearing different skin and different clothes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“My silence contains infinity, my infinity is my voice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“My Infinity is My Voice (Sonnet 2871)

More I try to straighten my life,
more I'm overcome with the paradox I am.
Once the sea attains its vastness,
it is impossible to contain it in a bottle.

Bazen çok istiyorum onlar gibi düşünmek,
onlar gibi inanmak, çok çabaladım, ama yapamadım -
olmaz artık, olmaz, daha beş gün bile yaşarsam,
dağ gibi yaşacağım, duvarsız, sınırsız -
eğer yaşarsam deniz gibi yaşacağım,
korkusuz, köktenciliksiz.

My silence contains infinity,
my infinity is my voice -
how do you domesticate the voice of infinity
into a mouthpiece for a tribe of monkeys!

When consciousness becomes oceanic,
character becomes titanic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“When consciousness becomes oceanic, character becomes titanic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“More I try to straighten my life, more I'm overcome with the paradox I am. Once the sea attains its vastness, it is impossible to contain it in a bottle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers,
religion can initiate soup kitchens or concentration camps.

Bigger than science, bigger than religion,
I'm the missing vector of the equation -
without me your sciences are just spare parts,
and your religions are just dead habits.

I'm the link between matter and mind,
I'm the life between the lines -
I'm the spark that breathes sapiens into slime,
I'm the safe space nestled in time.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Either burn me or burn with me
(The Naskar Personalities, Sonnet 2924-2925)

Naskar has many zones - neuroscientist,
dervish, monk, decolonizer, sacred feminine,
and countless others I lose track of -

my nondual works are authored by Naskar the Monk,
my texts drunk on love are poured by Dervish Naskar,
my decolonial papers are penned by Indigenous Naskar,
my demisogynizing pieces are from Naskar the Feminine,
my behavioral documents are by Neuroscientist Naskar,

and all these are integrated personalities
of the Complete Human Naskar -
and fyi, your eurocentric narratives
do not have the scales to measure,
let alone analyze, such vast mental dimensions,
so I beg of you, do not bother -

either burn my manuscripts, as apes do, whenever
they're confronted with vastness beyond their
compartmental pea-brain, or throw yourself all in,
without ego, without intellect, without faith -

either burn me or burn with me,
there is no observation, no analysis -
fragmentation is distortion,
integration is creation.

I'm the experiment larger than labs,
I'm consciousness larger than brains,
my heart is larger than atria and ventricles,
I'm the Human larger than genetics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Naskar has many zones – neuroscientist, dervish, monk, decolonizer, sacred feminine, and countless others I lose track of – my nondual works are authored by Naskar the Monk, my texts drunk on love are poured by Dervish Naskar, my decolonial papers are penned by Indigenous Naskar, my demisogynizing pieces are from Naskar the Feminine, my behavioral documents are by Neuroscientist Naskar, and all these are integrated personalities of the Complete Human Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Religions there are thousands, divinity there is but one - oneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Portrait of A Human (Sonnet 2938)

Books are my jewellery,
memories are my assets.
Languages are my liquor,
cultures are my cocaine.

Brain is my engine,
heart is my compass,
backbone is my battery,
character is my garment.

No manifestation, just perspiration.
No vibration, just aspiration.
No bending like goat,
no bowing like sheep -
no bleating, only revolution.

The planet pulses in my blood vessels,
I cannot fit into a monkey's passport.
Cosmos bubbles through my consciousness,
I cannot fit into your animal customs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The planet pulses in my blood vessels,
I cannot fit into a monkey's passport.
Cosmos bubbles through my consciousness,
I cannot fit into your animal customs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Some have problem with my inclusivity,
some have problem with my vastness,
some have problem with my velocity,
some have problem with my polyglottery,
and some just have problem with my skin -
and finding no filth, they just cook it up.

More power to you I say,
because more filth you cook,
more untouchable I become -
more accusations you invent,
more impossible I become.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I don’t even consider most of your tribal white giants as my equal, and you think I’ll be rattled by the temper tantrums of a bunch of underdeveloped neanderthals.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don't place me in the lineage of your tribal white giants, they were cute little smart kids, but that's all, my peers of heart used to write in arabic, turkish, persian, and sanskrit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Evolution of Naskar (Sonnet 2693-2694)

I didn't have internet while growing up, I used to save pocket money to buy nonfiction, and lots of dictionaries - I used to keep them sprawled open around me on the floor during homework,

and later when I published my first book, I leaned back into that same childhood habit, I remember spending months gathering notes from heaps of downloaded research publications.

After the first ten or so books, I wrote one called "In Search of Divinity", where the shift happened, the tone of that book was so radically different from my already published more academic-style work, which had already established me as a neuroscientist, that I considered publishing it under a pseudonym, to prevent it from jeopardizing my scholarly standing -

but that work felt like homecoming to my soul, so I chose to continue my legacy in that newly awakened tone, and then on, my reliance on secondhand research declined drastically, except for when I required occasional empirical data.

Science-heavy works are not necessarily truth-heavy works, just like scripture-heavy works are not necessarily divine-heavy works.

No risk, no discovery - no discovery, no humanity; had I stayed within the narrow confines of facts and figures, in fear of being shunned by academics, the human race would've never received the vast multicultural, multidisciplinary, multidimensional Naskar Canon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“No risk, no discovery - no discovery, no humanity; had I stayed within the narrow confines of facts and figures, in fear of being shunned by academics, the human race would've never received the vast multicultural, multidisciplinary, multidimensional Naskar Canon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“After the first ten or so books, I wrote one called "In Search of Divinity", where the shift happened, the tone of that book was so radically different from my already published more academic-style work, which had already established me as a neuroscientist, that I considered publishing it under a pseudonym, to prevent it from jeopardizing my scholarly standing -

but that work felt like homecoming to my soul, so I chose to continue my legacy in that newly awakened tone, and then on, my reliance on secondhand research declined drastically, except for when I required occasional empirical data.

Had I stayed within the narrow confines of facts and figures, in fear of being shunned by academics, the human race would've never received the vast multicultural, multidisciplinary, multidimensional Naskar Canon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Unified Planetary Heartbeat (Sonnet 2964)

You must not renounce your religion,
your culture, your country,
if you don't need to -
be the Naskar of your country,
your culture, your religion, from within -

be the Christian Naskar, Muslim Naskar,
Black Naskar, Latin Naskar, Jew Naskar,
Farsi Naskar, Sikh Naskar,
Slavic Naskar, Nordic Naskar,
Baltic Naskar, Celtic Naskar,
Turk Naskar, Kurt Naskar,
Azeri Naskar, Uzbek Naskar,
Turkmen Naskar, Uyghur Naskar,
Indic Naskar, Pakistani Naskar,
Aussie Naskar, Kiwi Naskar,
Han Naskar, Nihon Naskar,
Hanguk Naskar, Pinoy Naskar,
and all the other Naskars
you could possibly be -

the idea is not to destroy roots,
but to expand your roots so far and wide
that we could feel the pulse of each other's
cultures like one unified planetary heartbeat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Be the Christian Naskar, Muslim Naskar,
Black Naskar, Latin Naskar, Jew Naskar,
Farsi Naskar, Sikh Naskar,
Slavic Naskar, Nordic Naskar,
Baltic Naskar, Celtic Naskar,
Turk Naskar, Kurt Naskar,
Azeri Naskar, Uzbek Naskar,
Turkmen Naskar, Uyghur Naskar,
Indic Naskar, Pakistani Naskar,
Aussie Naskar, Kiwi Naskar,
Han Naskar, Nihon Naskar,
Hanguk Naskar, Pinoy Naskar,
and all the other Naskars
you could possibly be -

the idea is not to destroy roots,
but to expand your roots so far and wide
that we could feel the pulse of each other's
cultures like one unified planetary heartbeat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The more realities I contain, the more unreal I appear to tribal minds.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth