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

“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

“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

“Ek Insaan, aur ek hi lakshya;
Moksh ka matlab ek hi manushya.
Dharm se upar Insaan hi satya;
Imaan Insaaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Border ke paar, har koi yaar;
Na koi ajnabi, har din Iftaar.
Har ek mulk, mera hi mulk;
Har ek culture, mera culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Vision Viraat, Vajra Avinashi;
Na koi dev, na koi daasi.
Love is the law, tolerance is anthem;
Dervish Divaane, Advaita Ruhani.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Karm se hum baney Vishwaroop,
Reeti rivaaz sab andhaa jhooth.
Naam se Maanav, karm se Marham;
Dil na dekhe foreign-sanatan.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Ek Insaan, aur ek hi lakshya;
Moksh ka matlab ek hi manushya.
Dharm se upar Insaan hi satya;
Imaan Insaaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat.

Marham na mazhab dekhe,
Marham na dekhe mulk.
Dunya meri zimmedari meri,
This is the Naskar truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I am for I think not.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock