Abhijit Naskar Quotes & Sayings

Lack of insight into each other's private qualia of God, results in a never-ending argument between two people with vastly different conceptions of the term God. — Abhijit Naskar

Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness. — Abhijit Naskar

I dream of a planet where the science of the mind, brings the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran, and all other scriptures together and binds them with the golden twine of harmony. — Abhijit Naskar

To all the women I say, don't ask to be saved by anyone, "my brave baghinis" (tigresses). Remember, if you deem yourselves as sheeps, men will treat you as such, but if you deem yourselves as tigresses, then you are the ones who will shape humanity. — Abhijit Naskar

Emotion doesn't arise from the dreams, rather your deepest emotion orchestrates your dream. — Abhijit Naskar

Religion is the process of internal growth, not a lifeless bag of foolish words. — Abhijit Naskar

One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world. — Abhijit Naskar

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

Every man is subconsciously promiscuous, but it is the conscious mind that keeps those primordial urges in check. A healthy brain creates a healthy mind, which keeps your relationship strong, safe and healthy. — Abhijit Naskar

Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you. — Abhijit Naskar

Pleasure and Pain participate equally in moulding character. — Abhijit Naskar

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

You never want one thing at any given moment of life. Your mind always comes up with at least two choices. If your limbic system wins, the choice you make seems to be pleasurable at first but in the long run ends up being the wrong one. And if your prefrontal cortex wins the choice you make may appear rough at first, but in the long run it turns out to be the right one. — Abhijit Naskar

Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity. — Abhijit Naskar

The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else. — Abhijit Naskar

Good sex is about knowing each other's deepest and kinkiest desires. — Abhijit Naskar

Biologically speaking, you are the child of Mother Nature, and neurologically speaking, you are the heirs of immortal bliss. — Abhijit Naskar

My question to the atheist is, do you want an atheist world or a peaceful world? And to the believer, do you want a religious world or a peaceful world? Religious orientation doesn't define peace, but the answer here may define one's true nature. — Abhijit Naskar

You are not even seeing most of what's going on in the universe. On top of that, your brain filters out much of what it receives from the environment. So that what you are consciously aware of is only a fractional representation of your universe. — Abhijit Naskar

Come out, O lions, and shake off the ancient mysticism and prejudices. — Abhijit Naskar

Divinity is born from neural processes, not some Supreme Entity. — Abhijit Naskar

The only sin in this world is to lose faith in yourself. — Abhijit Naskar

I am proud to say to you that, I am a scientist and I accept all religions to be biologically true and equal. My pursuit of understanding the human mind has taught me universal tolerance. — Abhijit Naskar

The more emotional you are in a situation, the more memories you'll have of that situation in the long run. — Abhijit Naskar

Truth evolves incessantly. If it does not, it's no truth at all. — Abhijit Naskar

I do not believe in a Science that cannot wipe the tears of a widow, or bring a piece of bread to the starving mouth of an orphan. However sophisticated may be the scientific achievements, however well-spun may be the philosophy behind them, I do not call them Science, unless they are put to practice in the pursuit of easing the sufferings of the human society. — Abhijit Naskar

If you are a student of science and still haven't studied the works of Tesla, then your entire scientific education has been a waste of time. Because most of the technological wonders of 21st Century, which the modern humans are so proud of, are the product of one marvellous human mind - Nikola Tesla. — Abhijit Naskar

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

Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress. This is the approach that gave the world, leaders of glorious characters such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Subhas Chandra Bose (the actual man behind India's Independence), Vasil Levski (the man who liberated Bulgaria from the Ottoman oppression), Nelson Mandela and many more. These people were technically politicians too, but unlike the majority of the politicians of
modern society, their approach to politics was what it should be in a real system of politics. — Abhijit Naskar

To the traditional Indians, terms such as "intercourse", "penis", "vagina", "clitoris", "semen", "masturbation", "breasts", etc. are exclusive possessions of the night. The traditional Indians perceive these terms as something "dirty". No matter how old they look, they really never grow up to talk and discuss about sex. — Abhijit Naskar

You are born to build the society, not to follow it. — Abhijit Naskar

it is high time we stop using the term "theory" while mentioning Evolution. The term "theory" somehow makes some people think of Evolution as an unproven "hypothesis". Theory of Evolution is an incontrovertible fact of science. It is not a fictitious story like Creationism. It's a hard reality. It is the bed-rock of Biology. Defying evolution means defying one's own existence as a human being. — Abhijit Naskar

Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot make progress. — Abhijit Naskar

Religious faith as a whole induces various health benefits in the general population through complex biological processes. — Abhijit Naskar

The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings. — Abhijit Naskar

Freedom of will is born from the neurons. And that freedom allows you to sometimes make even the worst decisions ever in your life. And by making the worst decision, you simply learn what would be the better decision in future. — Abhijit Naskar

There is no such thing as predestined. Human destiny in the human world is determined by none but the humans. — Abhijit Naskar

Oscar may be the world's most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film. — Abhijit Naskar

For religion to truly become an aid to humanity as a whole, every human being must make sincere efforts to break down the dogmatic barriers among different religions constructed by the pathologically ill and dangerous fundamentalists. — Abhijit Naskar

Nanak's encounter of God and God's court was in fact a profound hallucinatory Near-Death Experience caused by drowning that strengthened his pre-conceived notion of a rational, compassionate and unorthodox society. — Abhijit Naskar

Sapiens means wise or sapient... Wise means acceptance, not differentiation. Wise means helping, not fighting. Wise means assimilation, not destruction. Wise means harmony and peace, not dissension. — Abhijit Naskar

Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do. — Abhijit Naskar

I had to make a choice, either take care of my family and become a good son, or be a bad son and start working towards constructing a world of harmony and peace. I chose the later. — Abhijit Naskar

Brutality goes hand in hand with orthodoxy, be it Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Atheistic or any other. — Abhijit Naskar

The whole humanity together must start working on focusing on reinforcing the elements of love and compassion from Islamic philosophy into the general human psyche. — Abhijit Naskar

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

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

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. — Abhijit Naskar

The important thing is not to survive, but to live. — Abhijit Naskar

The hormonal interplay inside a woman's head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what's important. They mold her desires and values. — Abhijit Naskar

Religion doesn't mean obeying some textual rules from books that were written hundreds or thousands of years ago. Religion means realization of the self. — Abhijit Naskar

The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun. — Abhijit Naskar

I am merely an insignificant creature on a microscopic blue dot in the vastness of space. — Abhijit Naskar

Nobody wants great things for you. They all want you to be something they deem important for them. — Abhijit Naskar

The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have. — Abhijit Naskar

Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature. — Abhijit Naskar

When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism. — Abhijit Naskar

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. — Abhijit Naskar

Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom. — Abhijit Naskar

Science is never rigid, it is flexible. It can bend towards any direction that ultimately tends to do good to humanity. Religion must learn the same. And the moment any religion learns that, it would become the most scientific religion in the world. — Abhijit Naskar

All your sufferings can be alleviated by no other person but you. — Abhijit Naskar

In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter. — Abhijit Naskar

Energy drinks like Red Bull may give you wings for the moment, but in time it takes away your basic physical and mental wellness and leads to disastrous psychiatric and physiological conditions. — Abhijit Naskar

Start small and keep going. — Abhijit Naskar

One who has just learnt a foreign language, constantly resorts, while talking, to words belonging to that language in order to make a show of his or her achievement. But one who knows the language well, seldom uses it when speaking in his or her own mother tongue. Such is the case with those who are well advanced in religion. — Abhijit Naskar

Education is the greatest manifestation of the innate potential of human mind. — Abhijit Naskar

The only service to be done for our downtrodden sisters and brother, is to give them education to develop their individuality. We must give them ideas, alongside cultivating their living conditions. — Abhijit Naskar

Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself. — Abhijit Naskar

Meditate upon yourself and you'll find bliss. — Abhijit Naskar

All of his (Nanak's) progressive thinking attained absolution at the age of 30, when he had the transcendental experience, quite similar to that of Mohammed and Joan of Arc, that was about to rock the very foundation of orthodox Hinduism in India. — Abhijit Naskar

You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation's citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch. — Abhijit Naskar

The more you learn the biology behind your every action, emotion and behavior, the better you become at accepting others the way they are. — Abhijit Naskar

It is "humanism" that should run in the veins of the thinking humanity, not a certain gender-oriented "ism". This entire book is a treatise on gender equality, and as such, it may be hailed as a work of feminism, but it is not - it is a work of humanism. — Abhijit Naskar

Religion, as it is generally taught all over the world, is said to be based upon faith and belief, and, in most cases, consists only of different sets of theories, and that is the reason why we find all religions quarrelling with one another. — Abhijit Naskar

All that two lovers want, is to be one with the other in a moment of ecstasy. — Abhijit Naskar

Contentment is the greatest wealth. — Abhijit Naskar

Be the help you seek from others. — Abhijit Naskar

We humans can never learn everything. The purpose of human life is not to learn everything. Rather it is to learn from every single walk of life and put that knowledge into practice in the pursuit of making human life a little better. — Abhijit Naskar

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

Be naive and curious. That's all you need to become a scientist. — Abhijit Naskar

First law of pleasurable love-making in the long run, is that you don't keep naked pictures of your partner on your phone. — Abhijit Naskar

Muslims are just as peace-loving as the Christians, Hindus, Jews or Buddhists. It's the fundamentalists from whom people should keep distance, not the muslims. — Abhijit Naskar

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. — Abhijit Naskar

We can tell a lot about a creature's level of consciousness by understanding their perception of death. — Abhijit Naskar

Respect yourself and the whole world will respect you. — Abhijit Naskar

The term "musalman" refers to someone with "musallam iman", that means, a pure conscience. Thus, any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, who can think for himself or herself, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves the neighbor as much as his or her own family is a Christian. — Abhijit Naskar

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. — Abhijit Naskar

Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves. — Abhijit Naskar

Once a baby is born, the parents have around one and a half decades to build his or her character and fill the mind with vigour and virtues. — Abhijit Naskar

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. — Abhijit Naskar

Remember, never give up on love. It is easier to give up in search of a better prize, because the brain always keeps craving for new stimulants, but this way you only keep on searching, never to find peace in love. Let me tell you a story. There was a student who asked his teacher, what is love. The teacher said go into the field and bring me the most beautiful flower. The student returned with no flower at hand and
said, I found the most beautiful flower in the field but I didn't pick it up for I might find a better one, but when I returned to the place, it was gone.
We always look for the best in life. When we finally see it, we take it for granted and after some time start expecting a better one, not knowing that it's the best. Seek for your love, and once you have it never ever give up on it, no matter the situations. — Abhijit Naskar

India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious freedom than any other earthly possession. Give them food or not, it doesn't matter to them, as long as they are allowed to practice their religion. But, take away their religion, they will fight till the last breath of their life. — Abhijit Naskar

There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival. — Abhijit Naskar

Don't be fearless, but tame your fears, and stop at nothing. — Abhijit Naskar

We are but a bunch of neurons. — Abhijit Naskar

The entire Granth Sahib, which is the central scripture of Sikhism, is basically an elaboration of the Mool Mantar. — Abhijit Naskar

Science is the most effective, efficient and magnificent path that leads towards the salvation of humankind. — Abhijit Naskar

The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits. — Abhijit Naskar

Whether a religion is of peace or violence should be defined by the actions of its people, not by some books. — Abhijit Naskar

Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational. — Abhijit Naskar