Aşkanjali Quotes

“If an act of inhumanity goes unchallenged in your presence, then you have no right to call yourself human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Only if you could love the other without insecurity, without possessiveness, without reward, then you could taste the real infinite sweetness of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Ten footsteps with a purpose can give you more joy than a thousand footsteps without purpose.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Gallantry doesn’t mean sleeping with people, gallantry means standing by the helpless, the discriminated, the downtrodden and the forgotten, even if it means going against an entire army.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Just once, I repeat, just once, destroy the divisions imposed on your soul by your society - and your eyes will open up to a new dawn - the real dawn - the dawn of civilization - the dawn of humanization - the dawn of universal salvation – the salvation where the human mind is human first then everything else.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“By belittling others we only show how little and shallow we are.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Adjusting to inhumanity is an inhumanity itself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Until your love makes you leap beyond norms, it ain't love. If your faith is more important than your love, then it's not love. If your tradition is more important than your love, it's not love. If your culture is more important than your love, it's not love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Pursuit of a question asked by no one is far greater than memorizing an answer known to everyone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Disparities in the world are the reflection of the disparities within us.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Love is to be lived and felt, not said or heard.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“The only way to eliminate the darkness around us is to be the light ourselves, instead of throwing other people under the bus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Sit still no more, sleep sound no more, eat calmly no more, for the innocent are crying, and you are the only hope they've got.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“If you could be a person who made no mistakes, had no failures and had no disappointments, you would not be a human, you would be a machine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“There is no greater jihad than to help the helpless - there is no greater crusade than to bring hope to the hopeless - there is no greater advancement than to lift the fallen - there is no greater humanity than to burn oneself for others to have warmth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“How can you sail in the ocean, if your anchor is down!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“See all evil, hear all evil and then devour all evil.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Inflicting harm on another is not the only crime, silently seeing harm inflicted on another is also a crime, and perhaps the latter is more criminal in nature than the former, for keeping silent when another is being wronged is an act of implicit promotion of that wrong without the accountability.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“True civilized love liberates your mind, instead of binding it with the torturous chains of possessiveness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“A soul trapped in the cage of doctrines cannot fly.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“It doesn't matter whether our certain thought or feeling or behavior is reasonable or not, what we must be aware of is, whether it impedes in our development, our internal growth - and whether it makes us a bigot.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Being the most insecure species on earth, humans have a tendency to seek for instruction manuals for even the fundamental experiences and realizations of life. And that's why so many con-artists, that is, the mystical fraudsters are able to keep cashing on their insecurity, by selling them diagrams and techniques to liberation. The number of gurus, yogis, swamis and psychics in a country increases exponentially with the fall of reason, and the fall of reason leads to the fall of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“When a disagreement emerges in a certain situation, you must first learn to distinguish, what's at stake. If it's just your opinion that's at stake, then it's far better to lose an argument than to lose a person, but if it's humanity that's at stake, then it's your duty to speak up, not to win some petty argument, but to make sure that inhumanity does not go unchallenged.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“A being of conduct is a being of character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Pursue happiness and you'll be unhappy, pursue purpose and you'll be happy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“From love is born liberty and in liberty you'll find humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“What’s the point of having a mind if it doesn't mind the issues of the society!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Tantrum begets tantrum, action begets solution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“If you are human, your mind turns into a breeding ground of holiness, even if you haven’t studied a single letter of the holy books. It's not the book that makes you holy, it's your behavior.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“If a person thinks only about the upliftment of the self, then no matter how many pilgrimages he visits or how strong his belief in God is, he is the least holy person on earth. On the other hand, an atheist who rushes to the aid of the neighbor in their time of distress, becomes the very definition of holiness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon