Abhijit Naskar Quotes - Page 3

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.
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Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.
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Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ.
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It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.
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If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s intelligence – it does not define an individual’s ambitions - it does not define an individual’s dreams – and above all, it does not define an individual’s character.
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In the biological sense, race does not exist.
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Once a baby is born, the parents have around one and a half decades to build his or her character and fill the mind with vigour and virtues.
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A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer.
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Human making is our mission.
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In parenting patience is the greatest virtue.
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Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose.
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Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of developing communities.
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The only quality that distinguishes the greats from the masses, is the unwillingness to give up.
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Current research in any field of Science has not yet reached the point where we could start exploring the existential question regarding God as a Supreme Entity driving causality in the universe. However, as modern Neuroscience progresses further and gets more advanced, we shall get to dive deeper into the physiological processes underneath the Qualia of God in human mind. What we have seen so far through our studies in Neurotheology, is that it is not God himself/herself/itself, rather it is people’s perception of God that influences the human life. The Qualia of God impact all aspects of human life by altering the body chemistry at a cellular level.
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Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.
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Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors involved in the rise of the psychology of thinking humanity.
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You can get the man out of stone-age, but not stone-age out of man.
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You are both the worshipper and the worshipped.
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Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it.
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The God that humanity so keenly seeks, lives within the human biology, yet they wander hitherto searching for it.
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Religion, as it is generally taught all over the world, is said to be based upon faith and belief, and, in most cases, consists only of different sets of theories, and that is the reason why we find all religions quarrelling with one another.
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You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.
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There is no such thing as 'God given scripture', 'the messenger of God' or 'the Last Prophet'.
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The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have.
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In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption.
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It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.
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What we are at this very moment, is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment.
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A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher.
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God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.
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Science and Religion are two vividly different realms of the human mind. They work differently at the molecular level, but the purpose of both is alleviation of the mind from the darkness of ignorance.
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​The human brain creates everything that you are.
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Non-duality has been the root of all religious movements on this planet.
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Everyday conscious awareness of a human being is only the tip of an iceberg, underneath which there is a realm of relatively uncharted apparently mysterious processes, which are likely to be way more complex than the usual waking state.
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Consciousness is simply the brain’s neural response to its surrounding environmental stimuli. Hence when the neural circuits malfunction, Consciousness tends to malfunction as well.
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The Kingdom of God is an earthly experience which manifests in an unearthly manner.
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Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.
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Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people.
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Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.
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We can tell a lot about a creature's level of consciousness by understanding their perception of death.
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God is simply a magnificent state of the mind, where the finite turns infinite.
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Each of the sapiens brains generates its own perception of God in uniquely different ways. Ergo, it imposes different qualities of meaning and value on God. You see God the way your brain wants you to see it. There is no right and wrong, or fact and fiction on this matter. It is all personal.
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Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves.
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Every living creature on this planet, has a conscious subjective perspective of the world. The plants may seem to us as standing indifferent to the human sufferings, but even they have their own unique mental universe. They have their own way of interacting with the environment.
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Various fascinating psychological elements are involved in the transcendental state of human consciousness. One may lose the ability to distinguish one’s self from the rest of the world in transcendence, but still it is the human brain that constructs that state of mind. Hence, even in that altered state of consciousness one is not totally devoid of one’s beliefs, conjectures, ideas and fantasies. In fact, these ideas fill up the transcendental experience with all kinds of fanatic stories that happen to be unique, based on the person’s inner urges and drives.
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Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.
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A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice.
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Our mistakes rewire our brain and open up new gateways of perception.
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Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.
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Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.
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Consciousness is the product of electrochemical signalling in the neurons of your brain. So when the brain stops functioning fully, your consciousness, or to a broader aspect your mind ceases to exist with its unique individualistic qualities. It's like the soothing flow of water. It is only water as long as its internal realm of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen, remains intact. If you break that structure which we call H20, it ceases to be water. Likewise a soul remains a soul, as longs as its neural structures remain intact. If you mess with those structure, then the entire personality of the soul may get radically altered. So, to think even further, if those neural structures inside your head stop working, then the soul ceases to exist forever. So, as long as you have a functional brain, you exist, and the moment that brain dies you die.
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No one will give a damn about you and your excellence unless you give a damn about yourself.
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​Let your pretence of arrogance grow big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you.
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It's like we act as a mirror for the environment, or to a broader aspect, the universe.
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There is no God besides the Self. One who knows the Self, knows God.
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One who knows the Self, knows God.
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A newcomer to a city should first look for a suitable room for resting at night. After securing the room and keeping the luggage there, he or she may go out for sightseeing. Otherwise it'll be a lot of suffering to find a place to rest in the darkness of the night. Similarly, upon securing the eternal resting place in Self, one can freely roam around doing his or her daily works.
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The only sin in this world is to lose faith in yourself.
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Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.
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All states of consciousness, no matter how mystical, ecstatic or divine, are gloriously born through the protoplasmic activity of the brain.
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All endeavors, heroic or monstrous, scientific or philosophical, rise from the electrochemical functioning of the mind, that takes place relentlessly in the little specks of protoplasm inside the head. These specks of jelly inside the brain, known as the neurons, determine our identity, personality and everything that we are.
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