Top 500 Abhijit Naskar Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Christ attained the ultimate spiritual oneness through prayer and devotion, Moses and Mohammed through prayer, Buddha and all the Indian sages through intense meditation and so did I. And so can you.”

— Abhijit Naskar

452. “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

453. “Consumption is not bad, but when done at excessive proportions it turns out to be not just bad, but downright deadly for the self as well as the society, as the society itself is a collective functional expression of many selves.”

— Abhijit Naskar

454. “You are the life and you are the death – it is only motion that separates the two.”

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455. “One who stops a war before it starts, is the real victor.”

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456. “Saint or sage or the awakened being is not the one free from all desires and expectations, but the one who has an active conscience to see the real implications of those desires and expectations and then act accordingly for the best possible outcome for the self as well as the society.”

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457. “The sun doesn’t ask for admiration in return for its light and warmth.”

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458. “It’s literally a new world now, so either we adapt to it collectively as one species or only the privileged healthy will be left to live. And the only way to adapt to a new world is to keep working through mistakes, failures and changes, driven by a sense of community.”

— Abhijit Naskar

459. “Freedom, freedom and freedom, that should be the mantra for the civilized, conscientious and progressive humanity – freedom from bigotry, freedom from prejudices and hatred – freedom from intellectual blindness as well as orthodox stupidity.”

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460. “Civilization lies in the mind, not in attire or books.”

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461. “Beyond fear there is clarity – beyond weakness there is victory – beyond insecurity there is life.”

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462. “Good deeds through the day makes you sleep well at night.”

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463. “You are your mind, so if you can see it, you can achieve it.”

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464. “Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience.”

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465. “If you are human, you are responsible – if you are not responsible, you are not human.”

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466. “Feed your child ideas of peace, harmony and compassion but at the same time give them courage to defend their identity and dignity.”

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467. “The thing you know as Karma, does not really exist the way you think. It can only exist through the law of causality, which means, when you make efforts to achieve something, the results do indeed occur, given enough time, resources and above all, perseverance.”

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468. “Teach your children, “love your neighbor like your family”, but “not because it is a Christian thing to do, rather because it is a human thing to do.”

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469. “Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.”

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470. “Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation.”

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471. “The human heart is too grand to be wasted in the gutter of cultural exclusivity.”

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472. “When people are rude to us, even if we didn’t do them any harm, we may feel awful, but we must try to not let our awfulness create hatred in us towards them, because once we give in to hate, it won’t stop there.”

— Abhijit Naskar

473. “Be invincible – not to weakness, but to defeat. You are defeated only when you think you are defeated.”

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474. “Students are not to pursue institutes, they are to pursue understanding.”

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475. “A Christian must worship the Self as Christ, not Christ as Christ. A Muslim must worship the Self as Mohammed, not Mohammed as Mohammed. A Hindu must worship the Self as Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.”

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476. “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.”

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477. “Our mistakes rewire our brain and open up new gateways of perception.”

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478. “The agonizing flames of misery can turn the human heart inside your skull into a breeding ground for virtues.”

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479. “Prayers and wishes are worthless my friend, if they are not accompanied by tangible human actions.”

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480. “Luxury is the enemy of growth. This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child’s mind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

481. “Without revolution, civilization comes to halt, because with complacency arrives indifference, and with indifference comes the fall of civilization.”

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482. “Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.”

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483. “A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.”

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484. “A thinking human must practice thinking.”

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485. “Religion and politics together is the most dangerous of all combinations, when that religion, is not the true religion of kindness and love, but the religion of books, doctrines and priests.”

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486. “Sophistication is not science people, simplicity is.”

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487. “Nature of Human is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fusion of primitive instinctual urges and modern humane conscience.”

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488. “Darkness cannot be expelled with force, it can only be overwhelmed with light.”

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489. “Stop groveling, stop whining and start working!”

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490. “Human you are, and your religion, Humanism.”

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491. “A nation falls not because of governmental atrocity, but because of the citizens’ indifference to that atrocity.”

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492. “In a civilized world, nobody is master to nobody, but everybody ought to be responsible for everybody.”

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493. “The future belongs to only those who would attain excellence in the field of their own choice.”

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494. “Ask a child “what do you want to be when you grow up”, they would say “I want to become a doctor and save lives – I want to become a cop and protect the innocent – I want to become a soldier and defend my people.” But ask the same question after they finish their education, and their answer would be “I want to get a highly paid job – I want to buy a large mansion – I want to be a millionaire”. Here I ask you, who turned a hero into a selfish, insecure narcissist? It’s our system of education.”

— Abhijit Naskar

495. “People often ask me, what my religion is. I tell them, I am a Christian to the Christian, a Jew to the Jew, a Muslim to the Muslim, a Hindu to the Hindu, an atheist to the atheist, but the brightest nightmare to the fundamentalist.”

— Abhijit Naskar

496. “One of these individuals, whose apparently divine subjective experience of transcendence led to the birth of one of the relatively modern religions of planet earth, was a man named Nanak. In an effort to diminish the contemporary conflicts between the Hindus and the Muslims, he ended up becoming the founding patriarch of yet another circle of religious ideologies – Sikhism – a child religion born from the wedlock between Hinduism and Islam.”

— Abhijit Naskar

497. “The world doesn’t need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world needs those bad women who can think for themselves, to break the primeval norms of the society that consistently drag the human civilization back to the stone-age.”

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498. “There was no conflict between science and religion ever. The conflicts were actually between two different systems of human understanding – one was science, which was based on rigorous observations and examinations, and the other was fundamentalism, that’s based on undisputed belief on the scriptures.”

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499. “Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.”

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

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