Advaita Vedanta Quotes

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

“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

“Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts.”
― Ramana Maharshi, Be As You Are

“Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. All else is a waste of energy and time.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Each pleasure is wrapped in pain. You soon discover that you cannot have one without the other … Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances … Real happiness flows from within.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love is not.”
― Floyd Henderson

“Can infinity have parts? What is meant by parts of infinity? If you reason it out, you will find that it is impossible. Infinity cannot be divided, it always remains infinite. If it could be divided, each part would be infinite. And there cannot be two infinites. Suppose there were, one would limit the other, and both would be finite. Infinity can only be one, undivided. Thus the conclusion will be reached that the infinite is one and not many, and that one Infinite Soul is reflecting itself through thousands and thousands of mirrors, appearing as so many different souls. It is the same Infinite Soul, which is the background of the universe, that we call God. The same Infinite Soul also is the background of the human mind which we call the human soul.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Practical Vedanta

“Every adventure allegorically retelling the same essential truth, which was that we are all so much more than we have been led to believe. We are the random spark in the vacuum and the eternal ripple that spreads infinitely from its serendipitous source. We are all of it. Everything that has been, will be, or ever could be.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“You exist because you are a great story which means you are perfect already and always will be no matter what! If anyone tells you different, or makes you feel like you’re not, they’re a liar!”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“Our deathless nature is realized by this transitory experience.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life

“Who is it that loves and who that suffers?

He alone stages a play with Himself.

The individual suffers because he perceives duality.

Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering.”
― Anandamayi Ma

“There is no such thing as Hinduism - the actual phrase is Sanatana Dharma, which is not a religion, but an everyday sense of oneness or advaita - which is the very backbone of the Indian society. Only in India people celebrate Eid with as much enthusiasm as they celebrate Diwali - they celebrate Christmas with as much enthusiasm as they celebrate Nanak Jayanti - and that's Sanatana Dharma for you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“There's no such thing as meaningless communication.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayattva

“God and the world are not two separate entities; there is absolutely no conflict between God and nature. Nature is the visible, the gross aspect of God, and God is the invisible, the subtle aspect of nature. There is no such point in the cosmos where nature ends and God begins. It is nature itself that, through a subtle process of its dissolution, turns into God, and it is God himself who, through a subtle process of his manifestation, turns into nature. Nature is manifest God, and God is unmanifest nature. And that is what advaita means, what the principle of one without the other means.”
― Osho, Krishan Guru Bhi Sakha Bhi (कृष्ण गुरु भी सखा भी)

“We are not the individual wave, but we are the indivisible sea that eternally fluctuates to give rise to an endless variety of shapes.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“This is what we used to think of as the human spirit, which, as we found, is really just one of the diverse ways in which the cosmic soul exercises its creative impulse.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“My India is the most radiant
beacon of multiculturalism,
Your India is a septic tank
of prehistoric nationalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Oh Lord, the more I think of me, you don't exist, and the more I think of you, I don't exist.”
― Alfred D'Souza

“The unification or “yog” of all humans in the psyche of the humans, that rises through simple human action or karma, with pure nonconflicted devotion or bhakti to the action and the self, while learning through healthy, effort-less effort or hatha and knowledge or gyana, is the king of all yoga, that is, raja yoga. This unification among humans is the real samadhi or nirvana in the civilized society of thinking humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Saint of The Sapiens

“Ved, Koran ya Bible ratta maarnese koi pak ya pavitra nahi banjaata, there’s no greater granth than chetna.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Ana al-haqq, ana al-hub - aham bindu, aham brahmanda.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Karma is action without agenda, Dharma is duty without saffronmania.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Sapiens stands Merhem-e Manavta, Ananta knows no foreign-sanatan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“When Naskar Runs Out (Origin Myth Sonnet, 2705)

Mission Naskar originated from the mind
of an ordinary mortal, named Gadadhar Chatterjee -
he was a crazy, illiterate, eccentric hindu priest,
who used to have hallucinations of his venerated
Mother Kali, not unlike how my own bond
with him ignited during my adolescence -

but that's not why I call him crazy,
he was crazy because despite being a hindu priest,
he used to sit for namaaz in the mosque next to his
fellow muslim, just like he used to call Christ his own,
all of which was blasphemy for a man in his position.

And from time to time when treachery of the world
drags me down to my lowest, so much so that
everyday mortal means feels powerless to lift me up,
I throw myself back at his feet,

like a ship battered from the voyage
anchored at its home-dock for repairs -
lo and behold, I emerge Naskar again,
with vision restored, and veins emboldened.”
― 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

“India Beyond Saffron
(Sanyasi Scientist Sonnet)

Ananta (Eternity) knows no foreign-sanatan,
either Hindutva or Human -
saffron was never the color of India,
India is the most spectacular rainbow
among the ancient of civilizations.

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.

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