Abhijit Naskar Quotes - Page 5

Religion without reason is like making love without love.
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Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity.
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What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!
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Even a thousand loud lies become powerless in front of one calm truth.
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Truth does not need publicity, lies do.
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Salvation of human life requires disclosure of truth through reason, surpassing bigotry.
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Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
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Our primitive ancestors learnt various behavioral characteristics like jealousy, possessiveness and aggression to ensure the survival of their wild love life in the harsh environment of Mother Nature. And all those behavioral responses eventually got engraved in our genetic blueprint. So, these are not the enemies in the path of a healthy relationship, rather when utilized properly they can even kindle the spark in a dying relationship.
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The brain becomes illogical, in the throes of new romance.
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All women desire one simple quality in their partner, which is understanding.
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First law of pleasurable love-making in the long run, is that you don't keep naked pictures of your partner on your phone.
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If there is a God you must see it (literally), even clearer than you see this page, otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist, than a hypocrite.
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It is the ultimate religion, through which the son, the Father and all elements of the universe become unified.
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Meditation is the brain's way to exercise.
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In the non-dual state, God, soul and universe are essentially one absolute system which is all-pervading, uncreated, self-luminous and eternal.
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Awakening into the God state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.
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Thus, on a functional level, your meditation triggers the corresponding neurobiological networks that are responsible for eliciting health effects.
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Upon entering into the divine domain of transcendence, all these religious founders truly felt that they had accessed the true meaning of the universe, while in reality, what they had access to, in that state of mind, was their inner self.
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The self, when confined into the usual wakeful state of consciousness, is human, but when enters into the transcendental state of Absolute Oneness, becomes God.
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Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself. Such an experience of divine ecstasy neurologically transformed him into a great teacher for humanity filled with love, kindness and divinity.
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Usually, when people hear the term Yoga, many of them associate it with various physical exercises where they need to twist, turn and stretch their body in complex ways that are known as Asanas, but this is only one type of Yoga, called “Hatha-Yoga”. In reality, Yoga is an umbrella term for various physical and mental exercises that lead to the overall well-being of a person.By origin, Yoga has mainly five forms:1.tRaja Yoga - The realization of divinity through intense meditation2.tKarma Yoga – The realization of divine bliss through your own daily activities and duties3.tHatha Yoga – The realization of divine well-being through various physical exercises4.tJyana Yoga – The realization of inexplicable bliss in the pursuit of knowledge5.tBhakti Yoga – The realization of ecstasy through love and devotion for your Personal GodThe purpose of all Yogas is to set your consciousness lose into the vast domain of the unknown, where your brain circuits simulate various fascinating mental states that are usually unimaginable and unattainable in your everyday consciousness. But the whole yoga thing has nothing to do with God or something of that sort. It is all about various states of the human mind.
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Nirvana is too simple an experience to be depicted by diagrams.
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Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice.
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Meditation is the vitamin for your mind.
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Do not force your mind to get rid of random thoughts, because your brain is simply not capable of doing so. Instead, when you sit to practise meditation, let the thoughts come and go, just don’t serve them tea. Over time, that background noise inside your head would disappear.
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Meditation is good for the elderly, great for adults, even greater for children, and greater still for pregnant women. So, meditate and be well.
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A prayer/meditation a day, keeps the Doctor away.
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Essentially prayer and meditation are one and the same thing.
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Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.
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Masturbating is no more sinful than praying or meditating.
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I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.
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If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.
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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.
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Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience.
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​Blind faith may be healthy for the individual mind, but it is not religion.
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It doesn’t matter whether you face the wall, the sky or the ground. It doesn’t matter what is your body posture while you are praying to God. It doesn’t matter whether you sit in a lotus position, or a bogus position, neither does it bother God whether your palms are joined together, or your arms wide open. God would still answer your prayers, not because he/she loves you all as his/her children, rather because you believe that God does.
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Every brain on your planet generates its own beliefs. Just imagine, around seven billion human brains are generating seven billion unique beliefs at this very moment. Now imagine, what would happen, if all those seven billion humans start imposing their own beliefs on each other. The only thing that is going to come out of such inhuman attempt is chaos and eventually mass extinction. So, the only way to avoid such a catastrophic consequence is to be more compassionate about people’s beliefs.
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Belief is not a luxury, it is a biological necessity of the mind.
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Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the fundamentalist Australopithecines are particularly harmful. These beliefs are what we call "delusions". Except unlike in a neuropsychological ailment, the delusion of the fundamentalists is not just harmful for the individuals suffering from it, but more importantly it is the greatest threat to peace, progress and wellbeing of the entire human species.
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If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror.
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What we are at this very moment is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment. And the step that you take at this moment, will determine your future. Past and future both require a functional mind to exist. Only the present prevails independent of mind – independent of life.
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Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present.
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
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Biological instincts are the key to understanding how every single human being is wired. The marvelous interplay of various brain circuits creates our instinctual reality of the daily life. If you’re conscious about the fact that there lies a complex yet vividly beautiful brain circuit mechanism behind every single impulse of your daily emotions, then you can choose how to react upon each of those impulses. You can thus program your behavioral response in a certain situation.
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The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.
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The purpose of my work is not to educate people, rather it is to enrich human life with self-awareness.
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Each day I wake up with a naive perspective of life and universe, and walk towards understanding a little more about the true nature of human perception with all its vivacious nuances and behavioral expressions.
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Your religion is whatever makes you a better human being.
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Each person you meet influences your mental universe in a way that has the potential to make a substantial impact upon the causality of the intellectual development of an entire species.
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Nourish your reasoning skills my friend, they are the most effective tool you can ever have in the path of progress.
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It’s better not to hold your feelings inside too much and express them to a dear one freely, than to pay thousands of dollars to a psychiatrist for the same outburst of emotions later. Emotions are a bonding mechanism for humans. So, use ‘em, abuse ‘em and utilize ‘em.
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For a man, the optimal evolutionary strategy is to disseminate his genes as widely as possible, given his few minutes (or, alas, seconds) of investment in each encounter. It all makes simple evolutionary sense, since a woman invests a good deal of time and effort -a nine month long, risky, strenuous pregnancy, in each offspring. Naturally she has to be very discerning in her choice of sexual partners.
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The so-called mystical characters of India, whom you call in many ways, such as “swami”, “baba” and “guru” are nothing but an informal, cheap and primitive substitute for modern psychotherapists or counsellors.
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People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.
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Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.
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Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind.
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When it is time for religion to vanish from the face of earth upon having finished its service of psychological reinforcement to humanity, Mother Nature will make that happen one way or another.
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A cricketer who hits a century in one match may score zero in the next, if he does not have the same outfit, shoes and bat that he used in the first match. In fact, many sportsmen keep some kind of talisman in their pocket that acts as a lucky charm for their game. Here the talisman or the outfit doesn’t possess any magical power that helps the player to perform better. But it is their own subconscious reliance on the charm, that makes them give their best.
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Healthy brains create a healthy society.
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The society terms the varied paths of achieving the divine bliss as religion.
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