Abhijit Naskar Quotes

No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind.

Religious unity does not come so easily. It is not a piece of pie, which you can buy in the shop. It takes sincere efforts from every single human being on this planet.

Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.

More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi – more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton.

Force your kids to pursue success and they shall be drowned into the abyss of characterlessness, but let them pursue excellence and they shall rise as glorious Gods.

Human making is our mission, but if you break the very soul of the would-be humans, then there will be no human to raise.

Let your children nourish their knack, for that knack shall one day provide them with the way to live with dignity and contentment.

Let your child be the torch of truth and they shall shine over the entirety of the human society brightening even the darkest corners.

Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish.

Never put a single thought of weakness in the flourishing minds of the children. Fill them up with vigour and compassion, for their character will define the future of the entire human species.

Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever.

Do not let the evil become our masters, but make the good reign upon the world.

Truth doesn't pay homage to creeds. Creeds must adjust themselves to be compatible with the truth.

The society terms the varied paths of achieving the divine bliss as religion.

Healthy brains create a healthy society.

Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind.

When it is time for religion to vanish from the face of earth upon having finished its service of psychological reinforcement to humanity, Mother Nature will make that happen one way or another.

People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.

Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.

Nourish your reasoning skills my friend, they are the most effective tool you can ever have in the path of progress.

Each person you meet influences your mental universe in a way that has the potential to make a substantial impact upon the causality of the intellectual development of an entire species.

Your religion is whatever makes you a better human being.

The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.

The purpose of my work is not to educate people, rather it is to enrich human life with self-awareness.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.

Belief is not a luxury, it is a biological necessity of the mind.

Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience.

​Blind faith may be healthy for the individual mind, but it is not religion.

If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

Essentially prayer and meditation are one and the same thing.

A prayer/meditation a day, keeps the Doctor away.

Meditation is good for the elderly, great for adults, even greater for children, and greater still for pregnant women. So, meditate and be well.

Religion is not a book, it is a neurological sentiment.

We humans are the gods of this planet. And we also have created Superior Gods than us, to have a sense of security.

As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them.

The existence of true religion is predicated on the practice of goodness. Goodness is Godliness. There is nothing else. Religion lies in practice, not in bookish theories.

With the glorious flames of compassion in your heart, embrace the goodness from all religions.

There is a scientific explanation behind everything. Finding it depends on whether you give in to the much simpler supernatural explanation.

Sikhism emerged as a ray of hope for the people of India who were stuck in obscurity – who craved for a way out from the rigorous battle between Hindu and Muslim orthodoxy.

In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand.

If you want to breed something, breed bravehearts, not soulless racehorses.

It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings.

​Man created God due to his selfish desires.

Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies.

You are the Jehovah of goodness, Allah of brotherhood, Buddha of reasoning and Krishna of love. And that’s more than enough gods, that the world will ever need.

Bring all your power out my friend, and throw away such Gods, such doctrines, such institutions, that impede in the path of human progress.

A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.

Prejudices, mysticism, bigotry these things only distort religion, like they have actually done to the most religions of the world.

Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.