In Search of Divinity Quotes

“Homosexuality is nature’s way of keeping the population in check.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“If to a person religion means reading books and obeying every single word from it without the slightest bit of reasoning, then such perception would only bring destruction upon the person and the world. Also there are people who use the words from those books to justify their own filthy actions. Let’s take a conservative Muslim, for example. Say, the conservative Muslim male Homo sapiens (I won’t call such creature a human, regardless of the religion, since his action here shows no sign of humanity) is found to be beating his wife. Now, if someone says to him “this is wrong”, he would naturally reply, “this is a divine thing to do, my book says so”. Now, if a Christian says “my book is older, so you should stop obeying your book and start obeying mine”, there will come the Buddhist, and say, “my book is much older still, obey mine”. Then will come the Jew, and say, “my book is even older, so just follow mine”. And in the end will come the Hindu and say “my books are the oldest of all, obey them”. Therefore referring to books will only make a mess of the human race and tear the species into pieces.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“A child who goes to school and shares his or her lunch with the classmates, is a billion times greater and more religious than all the book-learned priests, imams, rabbis and pundits in the world combined.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Repudiation reinforces beliefs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“A Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“The poor, the illiterate, the helpless, the distressed — let these be your God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“The entire idea of sin, is based on books of the dead people. It is a sociological invention founded on textual fanaticism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“There has been more bloodshed in the name of God than for any other cause. And it is all because people never attempt to reach the fountain-head. They are content only to comply with the customs of their forefathers, and want others to do the same.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“You are modern humans of the civilized world. And modern humans rise beyond all laws and superstitions of the society. They help their fellow beings to rise from the ashes of ignorance, illusion and fear.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Human brain is structured to avoid any kind of refutation of one's religious beliefs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“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, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Non-Dualism is the future of all Religions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“La Religion ne signifie pas obéir à certaines règles issues de livres écrits il y a des centaines ou des milliers d’années. La Religion signifie la réalisation du soi.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“It is an utter insult towards the fascinating neurons of your cerebral cortex, to believe anybody’s words blindly, even if that person is a Scientist or a Philosopher. So, I urge to you, that you must exercise your own reasoning and judgment (that’s what your cerebral cortex is for; to be specific the frontal lobes) at all times.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Know yourself as you are – particles of start-dust moving through the eternal ocean of time, trying to make whatever little difference you can.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Other than the substantial physiological impact of prayer/meditation, there is another much simpler mind-body intervention that helps all religious and spiritual individuals in all walks of life, regardless of whether they pray regularly or not. It is commonly known as faith.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Say, you teach a five year old child a few verses from the Bible. And after memorizing them, he will become a part scholar in Christian theology. But that won’t make him realize what Jesus actually meant when he said 'love thy neighbor'.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Any thought sequence that minimizes anxiety would get reinforced over time. The sequence would be maintained during the person’s development and would be provoked in contexts where refutation of the belief might occur. So, any kind of refutation of a person’s religious beliefs makes the beliefs only stronger.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“When you move to a new environment with cultural and social characteristics different from your own, it is only logical, that you loosen some of the knots of your religious doctrines, to embrace the new and vivid environment as much as you wish to be embraced by the environment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“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, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“We the humans are too tiny to know something so grand as an Eternal Driving Force behind the Universe. Ultimately what would really matter in the development of our species as a whole is, we the humans serving humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Religious literature from all around the world have an abundance of philosophical teachings as well, which in fact, prove quite helpful to humanity. But a rational human being must examine every single word from the scriptures before accepting it. Otherwise, it would only lead to religious bulimia, which in turn would bring chaos down on earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“When circumstances pour the minds of some young helpless individuals with hatred and rage towards the society, and when that pain, hatred, and rage become unbearable, they turn to the scriptures as the final resort, in a pursuit to find absolution, guided by the psychopathic, misogynistic, genocidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent, fundamentalist preachers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“Through the sacred verses filled with violence and self-righteousness, the minds of the angry individuals find a way to get rid of all their misery. At that unstable state of consciousness, they are drawn to the description of the Holy War. They visualize a glimmer of hope. They feel absolutely immersed in it. Finally when they emerge as holy warriors, they are no longer humans, from the emotional perspective. They emerge as wild beasts, neurologically almost unable to feel human emotions, like empathy, love, kindness and compassion. Consequently the whole world faces the wrath of the most primitive of all human elements in the name of God’s judgment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience

“The scriptures are just books. It all depends on you, whether you are going to learn goodness and compassion from them, or use them to destroy your environment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience