Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission
23 quotes
"As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission."
"I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom" as their motto. Let me tell you this, fear of the Lord, Santa Claus, Krishna, Thor, Hulk or any other imaginary being brings merely the illusion of wisdom, not wisdom. And illusion of wisdom is a billion times more harmful than lack of wisdom."
"Mystics reign where lacks true education."
"I am the thread of unification that goes through humans of all religions, cultures and ideologies while reinforcing their innate sense of one humanity."
"I work to make human beings out of human bodies. I work to make conscience out of mindlessness. I work to make Gods out of obedient worshippers."
"Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity replete with courage, conscience and compassion."
"O my brave Almighty Human, with the ever-effulgent flow of courage, conscience and compassion, turn yourself into a vivacious humanizer, and start walking with bold footsteps while eliminating racism, terminating misogyny, destroying homophobia and all other primitiveness that have turned humanity into the most inhuman species on earth."
"Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity."
"God is nature’s anti-dote to misery."
"Salvation not shared, is salvation wasted."
"I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, nor did I have access to information like you do today via the internet. I had to learn everything the hard way. And I had to become a scientist the old-fashioned way, which is, not through academia, but through trial and error. And my hardship opened up unforeseen gateways of perception in my mind. And through these gateways, today the whole world is able to see its inner self."
"I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience."
"I do not serve and never will serve the human body. I serve only the human soul - the soul that is the cause of all feats of excellence in this world – the soul that is the gateway to a real kingdom of peace."
"Be Gods and make Gods."
"Truth doesn't pay homage to creeds. Creeds must adjust themselves to be compatible with the truth."
"Healthy brains create a healthy society."
"Meditation is the vitamin for your mind."
"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."
"Salvation of human life requires disclosure of truth through reason, surpassing bigotry."
"Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry."
"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."
"Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”."
"I am no God. I am no Messiah. I am no divine incarnation. I am but a human in the service of humans."