Sanatana Dharma Quotes

“Call it India or Bharat, but not Hindustan. Because no matter the intellectual stupidity of linguistic origin, in practice calling India Hindustan is like still calling humankind mankind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“जाग्रत, उत्तिष्ठ, जगत् स्कन्धे गृहाण।”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“God wants nothing from us. In that sense, then, He is completely impersonal. At the same time, however, He is very intimately personal where we ourselves are concerned, for He wants for each of us, His creatures, the perfection of absolute Bliss. Sanaatan Dharma offers a blend, one which, to reason itself, is perfectly acceptable, between God as both impersonal and personal. God, as Krishna explains in the Bhagavad Gita, and as I said earlier, dreamed everything into existence. He couldn’t mold anything, outwardly, for there was nothing “out there” to mold nothing in existence anywhere but His own consciousness.”
― Kriyananda, Revelations of Christ: Proclaimed by Paramhansa Yogananda, Presented by his disciple, Swami

“The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and, as it seems, his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation,—for it survives the longest periods of scepticism and returns after every banishment,—is also the highest which his thought can envisage. It manifests itself in the divination of Godhead, the impulse towards perfection, the search after pure Truth and unmixed Bliss, the sense of a secret immortality. The ancient dawns of human knowledge have left us their witness to this constant aspiration; today we see a humanity satiated but not satisfied by victorious analysis of the externalities of Nature preparing to return to its primeval longings. The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last,—God, Light, Freedom, Immortality. (Collected Works 21/22, p.3)”
― Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine

“Śrīla Guru Mahārāj once gave a lecture in the library of Dhanbad before a gathering of many highly qualified paṇḍits and wealthy persons. He started his lecture with this verse. He explained that people think religion is found in books and that those books are written in particular languages, but that religion does not actually come from books or languages: religion is communicated through the transcendental language of heart transaction. All religion presented in scriptures is first revealed in the hearts of ṛṣis, munis, and sādhus. After it appears in their hearts it is transmitted forward from heart to heart, and it later may take the form of books. So what can we say about religion? How much can we understand it? It is a matter of the heart. How can we feel the beauty and understand the glory of religion if our hearts are presently as filthy as a dustbin? Because our hearts are impure we must try to understand religion from a cleanhearted sādhu.

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One who has no desire for selfish enjoyment, who wants to give rather than
take, who is always engaged twenty-four hours a day in serving the desires of the divine Lord, he is a sādhu. He alone is a truly peaceful, perfect gentleman. Real religion is the beauty that appears within the heart of such a sādhu, the transcendental feeling revealed in such a sādhu’s heart through his life of service. Whatever advice and instruction such a sādhu expresses is true religious instruction and can never be harmful to anyone. If we will receive a heart transmission from that type of sādhu and follow his guidance, we must feel the benefit of a truly religious life and come to understand the universal religion of all souls (jaiva-dharma).”
― Bhakti Sundar Govinda, Revealed Truth

“बुद्धिज़्म (बौद्ध धर्म) सनातन का वो बेटा है जो विदेश में जाकर बस गया। अच्छा नाम कमाया।”
― Abhishek Ojha , लेबंटी चाह | Lebanti Chah

“Gurukul are mostly under trees because of sufficient availability of oxygen, so that students can have more focus in learning.
Studies have showed that oxygen stimulate brain activity and help in concentration.-Sasi Krishnasamy”
― Sasi Krishnasamy (author of spiritual science)

“Sanatana Dharma is advaita sanskriti,
that is, a culture of nonsectarianism,
Hindutva means mindless saffronization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“प्रेमसत्यं ब्रह्मसत्यम्।
प्रेम विना अस्तित्वं नास्ति।।
प्रेमदर्शनं ब्रह्मदर्शनम्।
प्रेम विना ब्रह्माण्डं नास्ति।।”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Khalsa means freedom from hate,
Khalistan means nationalizing hate.
Christ stands for love and compassion,
Chistian nationalism is Christ's death.
Sanatana Dharma is advaita sanskriti,
that is, a culture of nonsectarianism,
Hindutva means mindless saffronization.
Islam means working for peace and welfare,
Islamism is the ruin of synchronization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“The day India stops being secular, she'll stop being India.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“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

“The darkness you see when you close your eyes is Kali.”
― Vinaya

“Tanrınator (The Sonnet)

To the christian I'm christian -
to neonazism, I'm nazarene ravager.
To the jew I'm just a jew -
to zionism, I'm thunderahava.

To the sanatani I'm advaitin -
to hindutva, I'm narasimha.
To the muslim I'm sufi fakir -
to islamism, I'm tanrınator.

To the atheist I'm rationalist,
to the militant I'm apocalypse.
To the intellectuals I'm an idiot,
to the narcissist I'm cataclysmic.

I'm a brother to every
believer and nonbeliever alike.
I'm the bridge that unites the shores,
I'm the bulldozer that obliterates divide.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Islam means working for peace and welfare,
Islamism is the ruin of synchronization.
Sanatana Dharma is advaita sanskriti,
that is, a culture of nonsectarianism,
Hindutva means mindless saffronization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Why is snanatan dhrama important for humanity?”
― Paras, The Untold Tales: Love and other Demons

“Why make Ahoi Astami?”
― Paras, kya kehne kavi ke / क्या कहने कवि के

“What an irony in that the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims remain doctrinally sundered by their self-same Semitic God and the diverse pantheon of Hindu deities render their respective devotees into the social fold of sanatana dharma!”
― B.S. Murthy

“In the annals of Bharat's resurgence, Narendra Modi would be extolled as the one who laid the political steps for the hesitant Hindus to ascend into the social sphere of hearty Sanatanis to resurrect their glory of yore.”
― B.S. Murthy

“Whereas the Muslim invaders failed to Islamize Hindustan, the British colonialists succeeded in Macaulayzing the Hindu minds into slighting its sanatana dharma.”
― B.S. Murthy

“Advaita is sanatana without superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Insan, Insan, o my yaar (friend), grow some brain to tell superstition from sanskaar*. update you must, both phone and fervor, brainless *tradition maintains jungle sarkaar (rule).”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“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

“Dogma decreed as divine,
when superstition feels highly sacred,
Vrindavan becomes a garbage dump,
Ayodhya becomes capital of savages.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

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

“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

“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