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

“Some ask for water, some ask for pani - somewhere I'm scientist, somewhere I'm sufi. I cannot explain this (nonduality) to your puny eurocentric analytical psyche, even to try would be like explaining neuroscience to a neanderthal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Every country needs just one person
to embody the best of humanity -
but I couldn't wait to find those people,
so I chose to be that person
from every culture and every country,

that's why I made these languages,
these cultures, these soils, my own,
no native, no foreign, it's all my own -

I let their air fill my lungs,
their passions permeate my veins,
their tears galvanize my heart,
their dreams resurrect my brain -

which is why, some ask for water, some ask pani -
somewhere I'm scientist, somewhere I'm sufi.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I am the laboratory (Sonnet 2676)

Your dictionaries don't matter,
your philosophies don't matter,
your scriptures don't matter,
your constitutions don't matter,
your courts, crowns, vaticans,
and washingtons don't matter -

bring your brain, heart and backbone,
but leave everything else at the door,
your dictionary, your scripture,
your constitution, your philosophy,
or do not enter, there'll be no point.

Truth is a garden, not a factory,
which means dead leaves must fall,
new branches must be tendered to.

I am the laboratory,
I am the court room,
I am the operating theatre,
I am the decontamination zone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Neuroscientist who can't tell
neuroscience from philosophy
(Sonnet 2696)

They say, I don't understand the difference
between neuroscience and philosophy,
but has it ever occurred to you that,
you might be too primitive to fathom
a mental state where neuroscience, philosophy,
theology, and poetry, it's all one;

just like you are too primitive
to find divinity outside fantasy,
or reason outside your philosophy,
or literature outside your grammar,
or justice outside your ideology -

just like you are too primitive to find
humanity outside your nationality!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Do not confuse dissolution of self with erasure of the self, when the self grows vast enough to contain the cosmos it dissolves automatically, and there is nothing to erase, it's only when you're fragmented that you flinch at the thought of erasure.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“कविता उन में विलीन हो रही है, वह कविता में और शेष है सिर्फ असीम अखंडित आनंद जो एक अखंड शून्य की भाँति अगणित भागों में खण्डित हो रहा, किन्तु प्रत्येक भाग वही पूर्ण शून्य है।”
― Pradyumna Kumar Tiwari, त्रिकूट: धर्म का चक्रव्यूह

“Voyage of Naskar (Sonnet 2805)

If you ask me what religion am I,
I'll ask you what jungle are you from!

If you ask me what is my nationality,
I'll ask you what is your malady!

If you ask me which ideology I follow,
you tell me, which bedlam did you escape from!

No point in climbing the Everest
while your heart is still a swamp,
no point in Voyaging with Naskar
while you carry a medieval mindset.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Naskar works in mysterious ways (Sonnet 2821)

Naskar is not linear, Naskar is not binary,
remember that, before you start analyzing
Naskar with your two little backwater,
linear, binary brain cells.

I roam across dimensions, across disciplines,
across cultures, languages, and timelines,
across entire spectrums of electrochemical experiences,
of which the tribally paralyzed carbon based,
mammalian, biped lifeform can only register a sliver.

I'm a life containing a moment,
I'm a moment containing a lifetime.
I'm a mind containing a message,
I'm the message containing a mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I'm a mind containing a message, I'm the message containing a mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Naskar Dance (Sonnet 2826-2830)

It all starts with a whisper in the spine,
a quiet little glitch in the grand design -
labels start melting like sugar in tea,
suddenly you’re thinking dangerously free.

Ink catches fire, pages take flight,
turning old dogmas into kindle wood.
Feet tap truth you never rehearsed,
mind becomes conduit for global good.

No uniform, no scripted stance,
surfing chaos do the Naskar dance -
every chaos is order divine,
every order is chaos enhanced.

Do the Naskar Dance, spin the system around,
kick down the borders, redraw the ground!
Clap to the rhythm of a mind unchained,
laugh like a rebel beautifully deranged!

Now tear that label, let it fall apart -
every revolution starts in the heart.
Do the Naskar Dance, no fear, no trance,
just a world wide human dance.

Every step is a thesis, every twirl’s a fight,
between borrowed shadows and your own light.
Juggling thousand questions, remix history mid-air,
with glitter, grit, and existential flair.

Swim through tsunami and flip the beat,
turn every doubt into dancing feet.
Snap to the sound of a breaking norm,
you’re the calm and the cognitive storm!

Dismantle the cage, let the nerves enhance -
your mind is the stage, so take your stance!
Do the Naskar Dance, always advance -
in a joyful, jaw-dropping, rebel prance!

Left foot - question everything!
Right foot - believe blind in nothing!
Spin once - lose the fear they sold!
Jump up - rewrite the truth you're told!

Heads held high, no flags to raise,
just human hearts in cosmic blaze!
No tribe, no throne, no final stance,
only an ever-evolving, self-correcting dance.

No permission required, no circumstance,
just sheer existence in defiant dance!
Apply the brain, but lead with heart,
in a whimsical, wonderful, oneness dance!

Do the Naskar Dance, let the jungle shake,
every move is a choice you make.
Sing with your bones, think with your skin,
don't bend your spine like roaches and apeling!

No finish line, no afterlife,
just this moment of unflinching light.
It's the Naskar Fever, side effects include -
rewriting the world, you may experience thoughts
too wide, and sudden urges to dissolve divide.

It's the Naskar Fever, no calm no chill,
mind keeps climbing its own free will.
From late night quotes to cosmic view,
now every me feels part of you!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Your dictionaries are too small for my voice, your disciplines are too primitive for my existence - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“If you could finish even half of what I've written, you'd either hate me enough to kill, or you'd be so massive a human that everywhere you look you'd find your own reflection, wearing different skin and different clothes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“My silence contains infinity, my infinity is my voice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“My Infinity is My Voice (Sonnet 2871)

More I try to straighten my life,
more I'm overcome with the paradox I am.
Once the sea attains its vastness,
it is impossible to contain it in a bottle.

Bazen çok istiyorum onlar gibi düşünmek,
onlar gibi inanmak, çok çabaladım, ama yapamadım -
olmaz artık, olmaz, daha beş gün bile yaşarsam,
dağ gibi yaşacağım, duvarsız, sınırsız -
eğer yaşarsam deniz gibi yaşacağım,
korkusuz, köktenciliksiz.

My silence contains infinity,
my infinity is my voice -
how do you domesticate the voice of infinity
into a mouthpiece for a tribe of monkeys!

When consciousness becomes oceanic,
character becomes titanic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“When consciousness becomes oceanic, character becomes titanic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“More I try to straighten my life, more I'm overcome with the paradox I am. Once the sea attains its vastness, it is impossible to contain it in a bottle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers,
religion can initiate soup kitchens or concentration camps.

Bigger than science, bigger than religion,
I'm the missing vector of the equation -
without me your sciences are just spare parts,
and your religions are just dead habits.

I'm the link between matter and mind,
I'm the life between the lines -
I'm the spark that breathes sapiens into slime,
I'm the safe space nestled in time.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Either burn me or burn with me
(The Naskar Personalities, Sonnet 2924-2925)

Naskar has many zones - neuroscientist,
dervish, monk, decolonizer, sacred feminine,
and countless others I lose track of -

my nondual works are authored by Naskar the Monk,
my texts drunk on love are poured by Dervish Naskar,
my decolonial papers are penned by Indigenous Naskar,
my demisogynizing pieces are from Naskar the Feminine,
my behavioral documents are by Neuroscientist Naskar,

and all these are integrated personalities
of the Complete Human Naskar -
and fyi, your eurocentric narratives
do not have the scales to measure,
let alone analyze, such vast mental dimensions,
so I beg of you, do not bother -

either burn my manuscripts, as apes do, whenever
they're confronted with vastness beyond their
compartmental pea-brain, or throw yourself all in,
without ego, without intellect, without faith -

either burn me or burn with me,
there is no observation, no analysis -
fragmentation is distortion,
integration is creation.

I'm the experiment larger than labs,
I'm consciousness larger than brains,
my heart is larger than atria and ventricles,
I'm the Human larger than genetics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Naskar has many zones – neuroscientist, dervish, monk, decolonizer, sacred feminine, and countless others I lose track of – my nondual works are authored by Naskar the Monk, my texts drunk on love are poured by Dervish Naskar, my decolonial papers are penned by Indigenous Naskar, my demisogynizing pieces are from Naskar the Feminine, my behavioral documents are by Neuroscientist Naskar, and all these are integrated personalities of the Complete Human Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Religions there are thousands, divinity there is but one - oneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Portrait of A Human (Sonnet 2938)

Books are my jewellery,
memories are my assets.
Languages are my liquor,
cultures are my cocaine.

Brain is my engine,
heart is my compass,
backbone is my battery,
character is my garment.

No manifestation, just perspiration.
No vibration, just aspiration.
No bending like goat,
no bowing like sheep -
no bleating, only revolution.

The planet pulses in my blood vessels,
I cannot fit into a monkey's passport.
Cosmos bubbles through my consciousness,
I cannot fit into your animal customs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The planet pulses in my blood vessels,
I cannot fit into a monkey's passport.
Cosmos bubbles through my consciousness,
I cannot fit into your animal customs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth