Abhijit Naskar Quotes

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.

Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.

The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.

Religion without reason is like making love without love.

Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity.

What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!

Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism – the tendencies of greed – the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust.

Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with needs. Needs are necessity, but wants are luxury.

The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love, compassion and self-realization.

I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.

Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.

All answers that you seek can only be found within.

Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.

Think of the good that Christ imparted on the society. And think of the great evil that has been done through fanaticism over one damn phrase “salvation through Christ, the Son of God.

Jesus recognized that God within him and became Christ - so did Siddhartha Gautama and became Buddha - so did I - and so can you.

A healthy brain leads to a healthy you.

Truth is a T-Rex. Let it out and you won't need to defend it. It'll defend itself.

A handful of lion-hearts can wake the whole world up.

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

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

​God is hardwired within the neural circuitry.

If you don’t act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.

Respect yourself and the whole world will respect you.

Dare to exercise rational thinking.

​Through ignorance a common man considers his own religion to be the best and makes much useless claims, but when his mind is illuminated by Self-Knowledge, all sectarian quarrels disappear.

First know the Self and then talk of social reformation.

Never question the conviction of a scientist, based on mere scriptures.

Learn to be true to yourself, and everything good will follow.

In order to attain extraordinary greatness, first you need to be drowned in the deepest fathoms of helplessness, misery and heartache.

The more you keep your religious beliefs concealed from others, the lesser religious conflicts occur in the society.

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

​You are only limited by your imagination.

We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember.

The more emotional you are in a situation, the more memories you’ll have of that situation in the long run.

Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient Indian man named Vyasa.

Never forget O Brave One, the best kind of existence is to exist for others.

There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. Love is holiness, discrimination is sin.

Despite the fact that we cannot be absolutely altruistic in our behavior, we can still build our character to be loving and compassionate – to empathize with others.

Survive, survive and survive – these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean.

Quran, like most other scriptures, is a book of most wonderful truth mixed with the most disgraceful superstitions of human nature.

All states of consciousness, no matter how mystical, ecstatic or divine, are gloriously born through the protoplasmic activity of the brain.

My goal is simple. It is to take the human civilization with me on the path of sweet general harmony.

Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life.

No Scripture comes from any Supreme Creator.

Be sincere to nobody else, but yourself.

Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone.

The highest creed is Universal Acceptance.

Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.

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

It's like we act as a mirror for the environment, or to a broader aspect, the universe.