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“As I started going deeper into meditation, I realised that its silence is more melodious than all the songs of the world.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“Nirvana; closing the eyes to see the world inside.”
― Vikrmn, You By You

“Don't just sit there trying to make a sense of this world. Be a part of the nonsense.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Beyond culture, beyond tradition, beyond all dogmas and doctrines, there lies a beautiful valley full with real liberty and real harmony - in that valley, diversity is no cause for discrimination or hatred, rather it provides colors to the collective life of humanity as one family - in that valley, the best creed is to have no creed - the best path is to have no path - the best ideology is to have no ideology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth

“This association of the idea of the orgasm and the idea of dying is a universal one. On the basis of these typical clinical examples, we arrive at the following conclusion: the striving after non-existence, nirvana, death, is identical with the striving after orgastic release, i.e., the most essential experience of the living organism. Thus, an idea of death stemming from the actual demise of the organism does not and cannot exist, because an idea can reflect only what has already been experienced. No one, however, has ever experienced his or her own death.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Character Analysis

“[T]he extinction of desire, the extinction of hatred, the extinction of illusion. �� [T]he extinction of 'thirst' is Nibbāna.”
― Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

“The day you realize your emptiness, will be the day you realize your wholeness.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Bello era il mondo a considerarlo così: senza indagine, così semplicemente, in una disposizione di spirito infantile. Belli la luna e gli astri, belli il ruscello e le sue sponde, il bosco e la roccia, la capra e il maggiolino, fiori e farfalle. Bello e piacevole andar così per il mondo e sentirsi cosi bambino, così risvegliato, così aperto all'immediatezza delle cose, così fiducioso.”
― Hesse Hermann, Siddhartha

“According to Lacey I had the lyrics all wrong. I sang like it sounded to me, because those words sounded right: I loved you I'm not going back I killed you I'm not going back.”
― Robin Wasserman, Girls on Fire

“He who has realized the Truth, Nirvāna, is the happiest being in the world. He is free from all 'complexes' and obsessions, �� He does not repent the past, nor does he brood over the future. He lives fully in the present. �� As he is free from selfish desire, hatred, ignorance, conceit, pride �� , he is pure and gentle, full of universal love, compassion, kindness, sympathy, understanding and tolerance. His service to others is of the purest, for he has no thought of self. He gains nothing, accumulates nothing, not even spiritual, because he is free from the illusion of self, and the 'Thirst' for becoming.”
― Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

“The way to Nirvana sublime;
Tread the way to end the play,
Now is the moment in time.
Tread it now or tread it never
Know thou weary traveller,
Spread the happy news far and near;
The Mara’s reign is over.”
― Banani Ray, Buddha's Smile Poems on Zen Living and Mindful Way of Life

“Samsara is the universal flux wherein beings are doomed to wander for as long as the ego-born delusion of independent existence persists, our world being but an infinitesimal fraction of the whole. Nirvana is the ultimate being-non-being beyond human conception and not to be attained until the last shred of ego-delusion has been discarded. Yet samsara and Nirvana are not two! There is no going from one to the other, nor are there any individual beings to make the journey; there is only a falling away of illusion, a sudden recognition of things as they really are, a revelation of the true nature of the self and of all selves that ever could be. To employ a simple analogy—a child born and reared in a pitch-dark room must conceive of his surroundings as devoid of colour and visual form; then light appears and everything seems gloriously different; yet the room is the same, nothing has changed but the child's conception of his surroundings.”
― John Blofeld, Mantras: Sacred Words of Power

“Every setback is a pitstop en route to nirvana.”
― Stewart Stafford

“That (truth) which cannot be lived in daily life, cannot be true.”
― Satish Tripathi, What is Meditation Actually?

“Meditation is not what your mind does: whether it is silent or not. Meditation is what you do with your mind.”
― Satish Tripathi, What is Meditation Actually?

“You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight.”
― Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

“That Nirvana and Samsara are one is a fact about the nature of the universe; but it is a fact which cannot be fully realized or directly experienced, except by souls far advanced in spirituality. For ordinary, nice, unregenerate people to accept this truth by hearsay, and to act upon it in practice, is merely to court disaster. All the dismal story of antinomianism is there to warn us of what happens when men and women make practical applications of a merely intellectual and unrealized theory that all is God and God is all.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

“You may discover that when there is no resistance to totally being in hell, heaven opens up and samsara reveals its true nature as nirvana.”
― Joan Tollifson, Nothing to Grasp

“The unification or “yog�� of all humans in the psyche of the humans, that rises through simple human action or karma, with pure nonconflicted devotion or bhakti to the action and the self, while learning through healthy, effort-less effort or hatha and knowledge or gyana, is the king of all yoga, that is, raja yoga. This unification among humans is the real samadhi or nirvana in the civilized society of thinking humanity, for it brings true oneness with your fellow beings which leads to a real, actual, genuine paradise on earth, without the need for theorizing and philosophizing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Saint of The Sapiens

“When true awareness is at play, the pedestrian becomes the path and the path becomes the pedestrian - the aware becomes the awareness and awareness becomes the aware.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Once you are alive to liberation, liberation would be alive in you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“With liberation comes strength, with liberation comes clarity, with liberation comes insight.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Real enlightenment is not at all free from all sorts of ignorance, but it is at all times aware of that ignorance as well as all the shortcomings of the self, whereas in the so-called enlightenment fueled by mysticism, the self gets consumed by the illusion of knowledge, which is worse than ignorance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Changing the family given name to a Sanskrit based name, doesn't make a person either free or holy - by doing so, one only exchanges one prison for another.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“To me - the scientist, the preacher, the entrepreneur, the janitor, the showgirl, the sex worker and all others are one and the same human spirit in which I see the image of my own self.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Monk Meets World

“In emptiness lies wholeness.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“I TAKE MY REFUGE IN THY NAME AND THEE!
I TAKE MY REFUGE IN THY LAW OF GOOD!
I TAKE MY REFUGE IN THY ORDER! OM!
THE DEW IS ON THE LOTUS! - RISE, GREAT SUN!
AND LIFT MY LEAF AND MIX ME WITH THE WAVE
OM MANI PADME HUM, THE SUNRISE COMES!
THE DEWPROP SLIPS INTO THE SHINING SEA!”
― Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia

“but if you’re righteous,
you shall be granted
w/faces radiant like hidden pearls
succulent fruit for you,
gushing water
&wine to indulge therein
high couches reclining
presidents alongside peasants”
― Xayaat Muhummed, The Breast Mountains Of All Time Are In Hargeisa

“Now and then we know a moment of supreme bliss, when we ask nothing, give nothing, know nothing but bliss. Then it passes, and we again see the panorama of the universe moving before us; and we know that it is but a mosaic work set upon God, who is the background of all things. Vedanta teaches that nirvana can be attained here and now, that we do not have to wait for death to reach it. Nirvana is the realization of the Self, and after having once known that, if only for an instant, never again can one be deluded by the mirage of personality. Having eyes, we must see the apparent, but all the time we know what it is; we have found out its true nature. It is the screen that hides the Self, which is unchanging. The screen opens and we find the Self behind it. All change is the screen. In the saint the screen is thin, and the reality can almost shine through. In the sinner the screen is thick, and we are able to lose sight of the truth that the atman [Self] is there, as well as behind the saint’s screen. When the screen is wholly removed, we find it never existed—that we were the atman and nothing else, even the screen is forgotten.

The two phases of this distinction in life are: First, that the man, who knows the real Self, will not be affected by anything; secondly, that that man alone can do good to the world. That man alone will have seen the real motive of doing good to others, because there is only one. It cannot be called egoistic, because that would be differentiation. It is only selflessness. It is the perception of the universal, not of the individual. Every case of love and sympathy is an assertion of this universal. “Not I, but thou.�� Help another, because you are in him and he is in you, is the philosophical way of putting it. The real Vedantist alone will give up his life for a fellow being without any compunction, because he knows he will not die. As long as there is one insect left in the world, he is living; as long as one mouth eats, he eats. So he goes on doing good to others, and is never hindered by the modern ideas of caring for the body. When a man reaches this point of abnegation, he goes beyond the moral struggle, beyond everything. He sees in the most learned priest, in the cow, in the dog, in the most miserable places, neither the learned man, nor the cow, nor the dog, nor the miserable place, but the same divinity manifesting itself in them all. He alone is the happy man; and the man who has acquired that sameness has, even in this life, conquered all existence. God is pure; therefore such a man is said to be living in God.”
― Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works Of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 1

“Naked I Dance (A Sonnet)

Naked I dance here in delight,
I am not wearing name, fame or stature.
All I am wearing is a smile of humaneness,
Isn't that what matters in human nature!
I need no faith, nation or intellect,
Nor do I need illusive pomp and ceremony.
I am happy being a human above all,
I'll stay that way forever exuding harmony.
Tried a lot many countries, races and religions,
To tie me up with their rugged exclusivities.
But my heart is too grand for any one sect,
So I dance naked without any cultural amenities.
Come join me if you like my sisters and brothers,
United we’ll free the world of all tribal attires.”
― Abhijit Naskar, No Foreigner Only Family