R.N. Prasher Quotes

The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.

To rule your mind, mind your rules.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.

A smile is merely a symptom of the human condition called happiness. Animals are affected by that condition more often though the symptoms are not so obvious.

Whether morality is moral is an open question.

If we play but not games, all will be well with the world.

The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives.

Of all creatures on earth, in proportion to their size and weight, humans have the smallest footprint on the ground and the largest on the environment.

As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world as you know it is in danger of collapsing

The desire that I may have no desirebis itself a desire.

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

The real help victims of injustice need is to get the will, skill and resources to fight back. There may or may not be a hell in afterlife but suffering injustice quietly is a sin, punishment for which is a living hell here and now.

Fate is the name of a large bunch of myriad paths; we choose one out of these.

When we lose the world, we find ourselves. When we lose ourselves, we find God. When we lose God, we find liberation.The trick is to learn to lose.

The desire that I may have no desire is itself a desire.

I am willing to contribute for a grand tombstone for Political Correctness (PC). This mouthplug has made us cowards, afraid to exercise our freedom of expression. It has stifled frank exchange of ideas and has made debates one-sided and pre-concluded. It has given strength to ideas which cannot defend themselves in an open debate. PC may be acceptable in private space but it is diastrous in public space as it makes that public space an oxymoron by making it restricted to only the "acceptable". Democracy is about competitive ideas and PC is undemocratic as it discounts the possibility of a level playing field. All growth of ideas is through cross fertilisation and PC leads to degeneration of ideas by restricting the process to inbreeding. Only those who use weakness as leverage to gain advantage without effort or have an hidden agenda will root for PC. It is the tool of the lazy and the devious. My offer for its tombstone stands.

Earth" is not too long an address. It is the parts which make us forget the way.

Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.

We convince ourselves that happiness is an effect; that there has to be cause for it. That makes happiness so dependent on the external environment and makes us a puppet. Happiness without a cause is sui generis, in a class of its own. If we learn the art of being happy without a reason, then we can be happy even when there is a reason to be unhappy.

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

You don't need words to talk to HIm. Words are for the priests. He doesn't care for words. He knows only your thoughts and your dreams.

Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.

My Ten Commandments:
1. God is a verb, not a noun.
2. Prayers are important only if they lead to corresponding actions.
3. Creation is an art. Science provides the tools for the artist. Anybody with the tools is not necessarily an artist.
4. Religion involves exclusivity and superiority. Divinity is inclusive and involves humility.
5. God by definition should be omnipotent. He should not require intermediation by priests and prophets.
6. All prophets have displayed exclusivity and superiority. (Refer to #4 above)
7. Rituals involve intermediation and often cruelty towards other fellows of creation.
8. Inclusivity and humility towards all creations of God is divine.
9. Rituals are antithesis of the divine. Rituals indicate a god and his intermediaries who are greedy, arrogant, revengeful and cruel.
10. God exists only for increasing happiness of all creatures.