Interfaith Poetry Quotes

“Integration is Illumination (The Sonnet)

Asato ma sad gamaya*,
Benevolence is bismillah.
Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya**,
Mind is the mightiest menorah.
Luz, lux, noor - light by any name,
Brings the same illumination.
And what is this mythical light,
If not an act of collective ascension!
Light is not the absence of darkness,
Light is the absence of indifference.
Darkness is symptom, coldness is the sickness,
Once we treat coldness, we'll treat all darkness.
I repeat, light by any name brings the same illumination.
If not now, when will we put an end to this dehumanization!


(*Let's rise from ignorance to truth. **Let's rise from darkness to light.)”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Luz, lux, noor - light by any name brings the same illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Light by any name brings the same illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Interfaith Sonnet

Not every christian is a good human,
But every good human is a christian.
Not every muslim is a good human,
But every good human is a muslim.
Not every jew is a good human,
But every good human is a jew.
Not every hindu is a good human,
But every good human is a hindu.
Not every buddhist is a good human,
But every good human is a buddhist.
Not every humanist is a good human,
But every good human is a humanist.
Goodness is universal, vessels may vary.
Some call it water, some agua, some pani.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“I am Them All (The Sonnet)

They tell me to disown my words,
or the law of christ will strike me down.
They tell me to stop writing, or else,
consciousness of krishna will bury me in ground.

I look into their eyes and respond most gently -
My child, waste not your breath in cautioning me,
I am the spirit of Vyas that wrote krishna to life,
I am the law of Christ that parted the Red Sea.

I am in one, I am in all -
I am the universe in a brain.
I am creation, I am destruction,
After a long drought, I am the monsoon rain.

I am not a person, the person is merely a vessel.
I am but expansion of the past giants,
I am the spirit supreme, I am but love universal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Sign of life is evolution,
Sign of death is rigidity.
Sign of human is integration,
Sign of animal is exclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Chrismadan (The Sonnet)

What happens when two ancient cultures come together!
They create a spectacular specimen called dervish advaitin.
When mistletoe and menorrah combine, heart shines brighter,
Beyond belief 'n disbelief, there's a land most enlightening.

Keep your outdated sectarian identities to yourself,
I am Jewistian, Hinduslim, or simply Human Universal.
Be the next civilized step of humankind's evolution,
Not just another savage vessel of mistakes ancestral.

Revitalized by Ramadan, humanized by Christmas,
Let's celebrate Chrismadan, as well as Hanukkawali.
Instead of carrying on as second-hand savages,
Habibi come, let us start living with humanity!

When all religions combine, a modern human is born.
Without integration there is no dawn, just endless mourn.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Rahmat is an act of azan,
Rahmat is what makes us holy.
When Rahmat and Azan manifest as one,
That's the beginning of Ramazan,
Christmas and Deepavali.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Discipline of the Sikh,
Enthusiasm of the Christian,
Brotherhood of the Muslim,
Nonviolence of the Jain,
Clarity of the Buddhist,
Groundedness of the Hindu,
Rationality of the Atheist,
Resilience of the Jew -

Take the good from everyone,
Mind expands through assimilation.
Past errors mustn't continue as tradition,
Oneness is divinity, division is damnation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Many fervor, many faiths,
thus the world is made.
World without secularism
is world of the dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Every peacemaker is muslim,
Every lover is christian.
Every helper is buddhist,
Every lifter is human.
Every lovenut is sufi,
Every braveheart is latin.
Every collectivist is jew,
Every secularist is advaitin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Where Christian, Muslim, Sikh 'n Jew,
sit and share a cup of stew,
Where Buddhist, Atheist, Jain, Hindu,
live and laugh as one life crew,
There beyond, where sentience lets no storm to brew,
Out of the fossil, into the fervor, I shall meet you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Goodness is universal,
vessels may vary.
Some call it water,
some agua, some pani.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“Selam-e-Sapiens (Shattered Seer Sonnet)

Sometimes I'm battered vagabond,
Sometimes I'm shattered seer.
No claim to name, fame or reign,
Lovedrunk I write borracha poesía.

Sometimes I'm mest-i-mevlana,
Sometimes I'm my own Shams.
Sometimes I'm dastan-e-dervish,
Sometimes I'm selam-e-sapiens.

I am no brahmin,
I am the Godfather of brahmins;
I am Parabrahma, the Brahmins worship.
I am Adi, I am Anth, I am Ananth Adishakti.

Leave your creed, crown and
constitution, when you enter my door.
I am but a human if you are human,
if you're sectarian, I'm messiah galore.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One