Advaita Quotes

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

“Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.”
― Vivekananda

“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

“It is only through silent awareness that our physical and mental nature can change. This change is completely spontaneous. If we make an effort to change we do no more than shift our attention from one level, from one thing, to another. We remain in a vicious circle. This only transfers energy from one point to another. It still leaves us oscillating between suffering and pleasure, each leading inevitably back to the other. Only living stillness, stillness without someone trying to be still, is capable of undoing the conditioning our biologoical, emotional and psychological nature has undergone. There is no controller, no selector, no personality making choices. In choiceless living the situation is given the freedom to unfold. You do not grasp one aspect over another for there is nobody to grasp. When you understand something and live it without being stuck to the formulation, what you have understood dissolves in your openness. In this silence change takes place of its own accord, the problem is resolved and duality ends. You are left in your glory where no one has understood and nothing has been understood.”
― Jean Klein, I Am

“It [realization of Oneness] means being constantly open to the possibility that we are like two flowers looking at each other from two different branches of the same tree, so that if we were to go deep enough inside to the trunk, we would realize that we are one. Just being open to this possibility will have a profound effect on your relationships and on your experience of the world.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Have you ever seen a stereogram?
The 'Truth' the Stereogram shows us is there in front of us. Training and work doesn't make us see it.
It's a point of view, a different way of looking at it.
When you see it you try to explain it to someone else and you
realize you can't.
It simple, super simple, yet almost impossible to explain.
There are 'techniques' to see them but some people may spend
years trying without results. Others can do it in seconds.
It doesn't change the fact that the image is there all the time in
front of us.
And it's Beautiful.”
― T.R. Cordón, GLIMPSES OF HER

“Hand of human is the hand of god.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Marham na mazhab dekhe,
marham na dekhe mulk,
la medicina no ve la fe,
my existence is the proof.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“There is no place for nationalism in science,
there is no place for fanaticism in holiness,
there is no place for hate-commerce in arts,
there is no place for borders in consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“There is no place for borders in consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I am controversial because I ask for tolerance, I am controversial because I'm integration incarnate, I am controversial because I call for humanity, at the expense of both faith and facts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“You cannot make sense of my titles, bleating like nationalist livestock.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Let the festivities of revolution commence,
breaking the fast of convenient apathy –
I am the Imperishable Force of Oneness,
I am Iftar, I am Noel, I am Jashn-e Justice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I am, for I am not.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I am, for I am not (Sonnet 2539)

I don't care what I am,
I don't know what I am,
I am, for I am not -
I am empty, I contain eternity.

I am not a man of faith,
I am the faith of humankind.
I am not ahead of time,
I just tick outside the clock.

I learnt nothing the traditional way,
neither sciences, nor languages,
all I did was dissolve myself,
and oceans overflowed to saturate my senses.

Yo soy, porque no soy,
I am, for I am not -
alive outside jungle books,
cattle I am not.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I am empty, I contain eternity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Oneness is my legacy, pages are just vessel.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“One drop of kindness contains the cosmos.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Naskar is when Naskar is not
(Sonnet 2550)

Ask the dust of my footsteps
on sands, where no history sleeps,
the truth of my becoming lies,
where no calendar keeps.

Ask the wind that remembers
every pilgrim who walked in flame,
it'll tell you how a mortal
outgrew the burden of name.

Ask the moon that saw my silence,
long before it witnessed my speech,
it will whisper how the cosmos
poured me truths no scriptures teach.

Ask the blaze of my trail,
if you drown in doubts or dismay -
you exist best when you exist not,
every seeker is tomorrow's yesterday.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Ask the dust of my footsteps
on sands, where no history sleeps,
the truth of my becoming lies,
where no calendar keeps.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“You exist best when you exist not.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Naskar is when Naskar is not.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Love is my homeland, heart is my parliament.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I have no genre, I am the genre.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The Religion Engine (Sonnet 2597)

Go to any church, any mosque,
any temple, and one thing
you're sure to find is,
not God, but people.

And that has always been
the real point of religion,
people recharging people,
people resurrecting people,
people consoling people,
people sheltering people -

because at the center of religion,
there is not God, but people.

The battery of religion is people,
the engine of religion is people,
the path of religion is people,
the destination of religion is people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“To be is not to be.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The world was carved with lies,
with flags of hate and fear -
but the pulse of integration
kept pulling me near.

So I wrote my own scripture
with the ink of equality -
no one is a stranger,
one people are we.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The Naskar Paradox
(Sonnet that shouldn't exist, 2588-2592)

I am the rip in time,
that heals the fractures of space.
I am the variable of love,
that nullifies the constants of hate.

To be is not to be,
life begins beyond the fate.
I am here, I am early,
even if you arrive late.

When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars will rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.

Sciences and theologies are my playthings,
I'm the pulse before reason and scriptures.
If apes pollute the pulse of life with dogma,
it is testament of an underdeveloped nature.

No telepathy, no clairvoyance,
human presence is the miracle.
No mind reading, no brainwashing,
eagerness unlocks the oracle.

The question is the answer,
the urgency is the calm.
Clocks measure coins, not time;
my bruises are my balm.

I am beyond your backward singularities,
larger than language models and libraries -
just a conduit made of stardust,
I'm empathy circuits written in verse.

Look up from your gypsy tea cups,
outside your make believe starcharts,
shake off the spell of hollow algorithms,
reality speaks through human tears.

You hunger for pride,
I hunger for life.
You hunger for tall walls,
I hunger for tall humans.

You hunger for future,
I hunger for the present.
Being is belonging,
attachment is advancement.

Love is not the absence of pain,
but the willingness to face it.
I'm every story ever suppressed,
every wound that never got stitched.

I am not old, I am not young,
I'm possibilities unsung.
I am paradox made flesh,
heartbeat born of cosmic hum.

I'm not in sonnets or equations, yet all in me,
silly mortal attempts to pen the infinity.
You're still searching for unified theories,
I'm the memory before divisions crept in.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I'm the memory before divisions crept in.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot