Quite surprisingly the majority of religious and spiritual practices actually diminishes your brain’s ability to act out of rage and fear.
— Abhijit NaskarMan’s earliest prereligious fear of the natural forces gradually became religious in nature and got personalized and spiritualized. Eventually he learnt to say 'God works in a mysterious way'.
— Abhijit NaskarThe Qualia of God have paramount potential to alter your body chemistry through mind-body substrates of neurobiology.
— Abhijit NaskarA religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity, but the moment, that person starts to build a wall of separation between the self and the rest of humanity, coaxed by the textual commands of a scripture, the healthy religiousness turns into dangerous fundamentalism, which is a threat to both the self and the society.
— Abhijit Naskar