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Guru Nanak
“For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?”
Guru Nanak, Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Guru Nanak
“Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.”
Guru Nanak, Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Guru Nanak
“Your Mercy is my social status.”
Guru Nanak, Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Guru Nanak
“What should the yogi have to fear? Trees, plants, and all that is inside and outside, is He Himself”
Guru Nanak, Sri Guru Granth Sahib

U.G. Krishnamurti
“What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any beyond, this movement of 'you' is absent. The absence of this movement probably is the beyond, but the beyond can never be experienced by you; it is when the 'you' is not there. Why are you trying to experience a thing that cannot be experienced?”
U.G. Krishnamurti, The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti

Guru Amar Das
“He Himself makes the mortals anxious, and He Himself takes the anxiety away.”
Guru Amar Das, Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Guru Gobind Singh
“When there is incest, adultery, atheism, hatred of religion, no more dharma, and sin everywhere, the impossible Iron Age has come; in what way the world will be saved? For the helpless, the Lord Himself will manifest as the Supreme Purusha. He will be called the Kalki incarnation and will be glorious like a lion coming down from heaven.”
Guru Gobind Singh

Abhijit Naskar
“One of these individuals, whose apparently divine subjective experience of transcendence led to the birth of one of the relatively modern religions of planet earth, was a man named Nanak. In an effort to diminish the contemporary conflicts between the Hindus and the Muslims, he ended up becoming the founding patriarch of yet another circle of religious ideologies 鈥� Sikhism 鈥� a child religion born from the wedlock between Hinduism and Islam.”
Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak

Guru Arjan Dev
“By forgetting the Supreme Lord, all the ailments cling to the man.”
Guru Arjan Dev

Abhijit Naskar
“All these stories of Janamsakhi were like an artistic instrument that was yielded more to spread Nanak鈥檚 spiritual sovereignty as a mystical prophet than as an effective teacher in flesh and blood. In the midst of ignorance and mystical craving, they provided a simple method to guide people, or rather allure them to a newly formed religious path by sermonizing through stories of mystical non-sense.”
Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak

Abhijit Naskar
“Nanak wanted to preach people that God loves both the Hindus and the Muslims the same way. Believing in his spiritual encounter, he wanted to eliminate the distance between the Hindus and the Muslims by teaching the words of equality and One God. But just like usual, he ended up forming yet another religion which became more and more hardcore with its own rituals and regulations in the hands of the subsequent nine Gurus.”
Abhijit Naskar, The God Parasite: Revelation of Neuroscience

Abhijit Naskar
“My Sikh sisters and brothers proclaim with utter glory and faith 鈥淛o Bole So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akaal鈥�, I say 鈥滼o Anubhava So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akaal鈥�. My translation of the former is 鈥淗e who utters 鈥楪reat Eternal Truth鈥� becomes joyous鈥�, while the latter translates to 鈥淗e who experiences 鈥楪reat Eternal Truth鈥� becomes joyous鈥�.”
Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak

Abhijit Naskar
“The entire Granth Sahib, which is the central scripture of Sikhism, is basically an elaboration of the Mool Mantar.”
Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak

Abhijit Naskar
“Sikhism emerged as a ray of hope for the people of India who were stuck in obscurity 鈥� who craved for a way out from the rigorous battle between Hindu and Muslim orthodoxy.”
Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak

Abhijit Naskar
“All of his (Nanak's) progressive thinking attained absolution at the age of 30, when he had the transcendental experience, quite similar to that of Mohammed and Joan of Arc, that was about to rock the very foundation of orthodox Hinduism in India.”
Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak

Abhijit Naskar
“Nanak鈥檚 encounter of God and God鈥檚 court was in fact a profound hallucinatory Near-Death Experience caused by drowning that strengthened his pre-conceived notion of a rational, compassionate and unorthodox society.”
Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak

“To break another's bones, to take their life, is to forgo wonder: It is to cut off a part of ourselves that we do not yet know. I choose nonviolence because it is moral and strategic.”
Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

Abhijit Naskar
“The Vatican has been sending out missionaries across the world not to help the poor, but to convert the poor, in exchange for charity. In this respect, empirically speaking, the only religion that has been practicing the tradition of actual selfless service religiously, is Sikhism. Till this day Sikh langars or soup-kitchens across the world feed millions of people regularly, no matter their status, faith or ethnicity, without asking for anything in return. Religious charity in exchange for religious conversion is the most sacrilegious act of all. In the end, it has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with service. Either serve or don't, there is no spreading the word. Spread good acts, not good news.”
Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

Abhijit Naskar
“Khalsa means freedom from hate, Khalistan means nationalizing hate.”
Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

Khushwant Singh
“You have seen the world and read many books, but take it from me that a snake can cast its slough but not its poison”
Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan

Khushwant Singh
“The last to learn gossip are the parties concerned.”
Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan

Guru Gobind Singh
“Chattri ko poot ho, Baman ko naheen kayee tap aavat ha jo karon; Ar aur janjaar jito greh ko tohe tyaag, kahan chit taan mai dharon, Ab reejh ke deh vahey humko jo-oo, hau binti kar jor karoon ; Jab aao ki audh nidaan bane, att hi ran main tab jujh maroon.
(I am the son of a Chhatri (Khatri), not of a Brahmin and I will live according to my Dharma. All other complications of life are meaningless for me, and I set my heart on the path of righteousness. I humbly beseech thee God Almighty that when the time comes for me to fulfill my Dharma, may I die with honour in the field of battle)”
Guru Gobind Singh