Advaita Vedanta Quotes

“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor achievement.
This is the final truth.”
― Ramana Maharshi, Sayings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

“Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts.”
― Ramana Maharshi, Be As You Are

“Each pleasure is wrapped in pain. You soon discover that you cannot have one without the other … Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances … Real happiness flows from within.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love is not.”
― Floyd Henderson

“Can infinity have parts? What is meant by parts of infinity? If you reason it out, you will find that it is impossible. Infinity cannot be divided, it always remains infinite. If it could be divided, each part would be infinite. And there cannot be two infinites. Suppose there were, one would limit the other, and both would be finite. Infinity can only be one, undivided. Thus the conclusion will be reached that the infinite is one and not many, and that one Infinite Soul is reflecting itself through thousands and thousands of mirrors, appearing as so many different souls. It is the same Infinite Soul, which is the background of the universe, that we call God. The same Infinite Soul also is the background of the human mind which we call the human soul.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Practical Vedanta

“When you inquire in yourself, all you desire is desirelessness.”
― Jean Klein, Beyond Knowledge

“Most people are meditating on what they like, or don’t like. Most people are meditating on how to be happy, how to have a better life, how to make more money, how to get sex—so don’t be confused. What you give your attention to, IS your meditation. Formal meditation, the ‘practice’ of meditation, is an antidote for these involuntary meditations that people are always engaging in without realizing it. You get to focus on something different, something perhaps of your choosing.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“When you relax, the universe starts to answer questions you never even asked.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya

“Our reward was to have remaining in stillness as our profession.” Tattuvaraya from Sorupa Saram by Sorupananda (translated by David Godman)”
― David Godman, Sorupa Saram

“The Indian Sonnet

All through history India has provided sanctuary,
To the persecuted, shunned and alienated of the world.
Everyone from everywhere has toiled in India's making,
Many cultures beat together within the Indian heart.

Of course, there are peddlers of intolerance and hate,
Those who have been trying to build an extremist nation.
These primitive apes fail to think with their pea brain,
Of the word "hindu" the sanatana texts bear no mention.

The ancient citizens of India had no organized religion,
Life was just an expression of nonduality or undivision.
Indus valley is a rare land that assimilated all,
Without ever spreading the tentacles of invasion.

Many fervor, many faiths, thus India is made.
India without secularism is India of the dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“India without secularism is India of the dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Instead of pouring milk on a lifeless stone, pour it in a hungry stomach.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“I am the infinite deep
In whom all the worlds
Appear to rise.
Beyond all form,
Forever still.
Even so am I.”
― Ashtavakra Gita 7.3

“Khalsa isn't Khalistan
(The Sonnet)

Khalsa means freedom from hate,
Khalistan means nationalizing hate.
Christ stands for love and compassion,
Chistian nationalism is Christ's death.

Sanatana Dharma is advaita sanskriti,
that is, a culture of nonsectarianism,
Hindutva means mindless saffronization.
Islam means working for peace and welfare,
Islamism is the ruin of synchronization.

Intolerance is a worldwide pandemic,
only terminologies vary culture to culture.
Vaccine for the mightiest swords of hate,
is the gentle glint of one heart, hatebuster.

Give me ten unarmed transformers of love and light,
I shall wipe out hate from its roots of fright.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Sanatana Dharma is advaita sanskriti,
that is, a culture of nonsectarianism,
Hindutva means mindless saffronization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“I am One, I am All.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth

“Vicdansaadet, The Sonnet

I have many names,

Sometimes I am Hometown Human,
Sometimes I am Mucize Insan,
Sometimes I am Ingan Impossible,
Sometimes I am Mukemmel Musalman,

Sometimes I am Dervish Advaitam,
Sometimes I am Bulldozer on Duty,
Sometimes I am Corazon Calamidad,
Sometimes I am High Voltage Habib,

Sometimes I am Himalayan Sonneteer,
Sometimes I am The Gentalist,
Sometimes I am Divane Dynamite,
Sometimes I am Rowdy Scientist.

These all look and sound so different,
because you are distant in culture.
Move past the circus of manmade caves,
within every heart you'll find a Naskar.

Call it Naskar, Shams or Adi Shankara,
it is all but one spirit of oneness.
Wherever the fire of integration
takes hold, there emerges Vicdansaadet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“अहं ब्रह्माण्डस्मि। (Aham Brahmandsmi.)”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Consciousness contains the cosmos.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“जाग्रत, उत्तिष्ठ, जगत् स्कन्धे गृहाण।”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“The day India stops being secular, she'll stop being India.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“There is no such thing as Hinduism - the actual phrase is Sanatana Dharma, which is not a religion, but an everyday sense of oneness or advaita - which is the very backbone of the Indian society. Only in India people celebrate Eid with as much enthusiasm as they celebrate Diwali - they celebrate Christmas with as much enthusiasm as they celebrate Nanak Jayanti - and that's Sanatana Dharma for you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“There's no such thing as meaningless communication.”
― Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodayattva

“God and the world are not two separate entities; there is absolutely no conflict between God and nature. Nature is the visible, the gross aspect of God, and God is the invisible, the subtle aspect of nature. There is no such point in the cosmos where nature ends and God begins. It is nature itself that, through a subtle process of its dissolution, turns into God, and it is God himself who, through a subtle process of his manifestation, turns into nature. Nature is manifest God, and God is unmanifest nature. And that is what advaita means, what the principle of one without the other means.”
― Osho, Krishan Guru Bhi Sakha Bhi (कृष्ण गुरु भी सखा भी)

“We are not the individual wave, but we are the indivisible sea that eternally fluctuates to give rise to an endless variety of shapes.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“This is what we used to think of as the human spirit, which, as we found, is really just one of the diverse ways in which the cosmic soul exercises its creative impulse.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“Every adventure allegorically retelling the same essential truth, which was that we are all so much more than we have been led to believe. We are the random spark in the vacuum and the eternal ripple that spreads infinitely from its serendipitous source. We are all of it. Everything that has been, will be, or ever could be.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“You exist because you are a great story which means you are perfect already and always will be no matter what! If anyone tells you different, or makes you feel like you’re not, they’re a liar!”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“My India is the most radiant
beacon of multiculturalism,
Your India is a septic tank
of prehistoric nationalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee