Sufism Quotes

“Life is Nonbiblical, Truth is Nonbinary
(Sonnet 2349-2350)

Atheism is a white european invention,
outside the shortsighted gutter
of eurocentrism there are people who don't
need to believe in a creator to be holy,

you can be sacred without being superstitious,
the human world is teeming with such cultures
where life is holy, duty is holy, laughter is holy,
but of course your whitewashed, eurocentric
little intellect cannot fathom nonduality -

that's why you mustn't confuse intellect with wisdom,
some of the brilliant minds are first class idiots,
their binary brains have zero capacity for nuance,
they confuse the backwater fiction-centric narrative
of the church to be the entire lifespring of theology,

so naturally, either they believe like sheep
or reject like robot, because in a world of sheep
and cyborgs either there is god or there is not,
either you submit to blind faith or icecold logic,
there is no place for heart, humanity and tolerance!

Not Christ, but church doctrine was
a major downgrade in theology existing
hundreds and thousands of years prior,
at the same time, european reductionism
was a major downgrade in a wholesome
life-centric understanding of truth.

We need a life-centric understanding of truth,
not truth-centric understanding of life -
we need a human-centric realization of divine,
not divine-centric realization of human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Early Naskar unraveled the brain, Mid Naskar delivered backbone, Late Naskar is pilgrim of the heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Religious beyond religion, cultured beyond culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In English we say: the pen is mightier than the sword. In Naskarian we say: heart is mightier than both pen and the sword.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“There's divinity in diversity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“God of the gaps cannot be God of the world, and God of the world should not be abused as god of the gaps.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Divine has no religion, nature has no nationality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Monkeys have a deranged jungle instinct of yapping about their religion, nation and culture, which is why I made it a point to erase mine, for I say again, I exist for I dissolve in all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I am what happens when a monk scientist goes full-on godmode to establish a planetary, integrated, anti-racist, anti-phobic, anti-misogynist, anti-colonial, anti-military, anti-nationalist civilization of actual human beings.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“It is only through pilgrimage to plurality, that an ape ascends into humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Monkeys have a deranged jungle instinct of yapping about their religion, nation and culture, which is why I made it a point to erase mine, for I say again, I exist for I dissolve in all.

My life is the experiment I leave to the world; neither failed, nor successful, I am just a humanizing mutation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I opened my eyes and couldn't find a single precedent of post-national, post-religion, post-lingual, post-cultural existence, so I became the precedent. My roots go deep down to the core of earth, spread across the bones and marrow of the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The Uncultured Idiot (Sonnet 2501-2502)

My roots run deep down to the core of earth,
spread across the bones and marrow of the human race.

Starting out with an insatiable spark of expansion,
I spent my early teens devouring scriptures,
then my late teens and early twenties I spent
assimilating neuroscience and psychology,

but it wasn't until my late twenties,
a few years after my first publication,
that the original Naskarian voice started
to awaken, a voice not only beyond nation,
religion and culture, but also beyond
eurocentric intellectual convention.

So many things were unfolding in my mind
at once, that it's impossible for me to
piece together a coherent timeline of events.

But one thing was most striking, it's that,
influence of the puny eurocentric schools of thought
was beginning to wear off, as cultures of the world
found an ideal vessel with zero chains of tribalism.

I became empty and let the world pour its wonders
into me, so it did, and I burn day in, day out, and
each time from the ashes a new pluralist text is born,
blasting all archaic, elitist and exclusivist narrative.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“In a world infested with medal-seeking mules, stand odd, stand ablaze, a drunken pilgrim.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The Nondual Nutcase (Sonnet Beyond Binary)

Separatism is the hallmark of eurocentric thought,
whether it's separation between the mortal and divine,
or the separation between reason and theology,
or between science and philosophy, or prose and poetry.

Every single aspect of human consciousness
touched by eurocentrism ends up divided and
desecrated, losing its health-giving wholeness,

which is why I never felt at home with euroschools,
despite the fact that I too like everyone on the
planet grew up in a westwashed education system.

However, it took me over a hundred books and
2000 sonnets to wake up to the tangible realization,
that the entire eurocentric paradigm is separatist,
from its science to philosophy to theology to poetry.

In euro schools of thought we say:
keep the divine separate from the people,
keep science separate from philosophy.
In Naskarian we say:
integration is divine by reason of poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“All Roots Are Chains (Sonnet 2424)

Proverb goes, change takes time;
I say, time takes change,
for without change there is no time.

And it always begins with you, and
by that, I mean us - you, me, all of us.
I opened my eyes, and couldn't find
a single proper multicultural human
in the world, so I became one -

even the best of egalitarian thinkers
still remain rooted in their geography,
for that's the norm of their time and age,

but for myself, I find such trait
to be nothing more than a tribal vestige,
unbecoming of the time-fabric I'm weaving.

I must be free, absolutely, unequivocally free,
from all forms of chains masquerading as roots -
so I stand free, from every last inherited loyalty,
not as a better human, just an invitation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“All roots are chains.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I don't need a seat at your table,
all your tables are inconsequential.
You can have your puny jungle,
the Universe belongs to me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Letter From The Himalayas (Sonnet 2497)

It may sound preposterous to digital chimps,
who cannot even walk in a straight line
without asking AI, but those of us humans
still have a functional brain, heart and spine.

I obliterate myself pouring out life,
beyond all known limits of literature,
only to be blamed for my himalayan immensity,
by the religious of hate and nationals of bigotry.

Yet I don't hate you back, you're still my children,
someday your own descendants will call your fall.
When I'm pissed at somebody's stupidity,
I don't get rude, cruel or violent,
I get extremely patronizing, unbearably brotherly,
that's my way of not losing control.

First I was a monk, then I was a scientist,
later I was a poet, finally I am the Human Race.
You still hang from the trees,
yet you claim to understand the Himalayas!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“First I was a monk, then I was a scientist, later I was a poet, finally I am the Human Race. You still hang from the trees, yet you claim to understand the Himalayas!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“First I was a monk, then I was a scientist, later I was a poet, finally I am the Human Race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Love your neighbor more than you obey the state.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Like many streams finally meet in the sea, we are all born of nature and ultimately disperse into nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I am a muslim poet, yet I refuse to hate my brother from another mother - like many streams finally meet in the sea, we are all born of nature and ultimately disperse into nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I am a muslim poet, yet I refuse to hate my brother from another mother.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“With Love From A Muslim Poet (Sonnet 2451)

Love your neighbor,
more than you obey the state;
a world left to the whims of politicians,
doesn't take long to be a land of waste.

Nothing's easier than being an ape:
obey the tribal chief,
practice the state-approved religion,
and never love a neighbor
that your monkey king disapproves of -

but to be human takes heart, brain, and backbone,
three fundamental forces which invoke
the very ruin of political power,
for they pluck the apes from the cesspool of fear,
and elevate them to human consciousness,
which is adamantly allergic to primitive nonsense.

I am a muslim poet, yet I refuse
to hate my brother from another mother -
like many streams finally meet in the sea,
we are all born of nature and
ultimately disperse into nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“God's original name is Human,
but it isn't very profitable,
so the apes cook up fancy names,
and sprinkle in tales of magic.

Organized religion is the planet's largest circus,
where apes commodify divinity to sell tickets -
more divide means more fear, means more control,
divine distant from human is the holy grail of commerce.

Human is the first and final name of divinity,
but that goes against the entire religious
industrial complex - for the purpose of brevity
I say religious, but I mean fundamentalist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“There's not one religion but two,
one is commercial religion,
rooted in fear, prejudice and bigotry,
and the other is lived religion,
rooted in kindness and inclusivity -

the atheist and the believer
drink from the same water,
breathe the same air,
eat the same food -

mother nature, the actual origin of life,
doesn't segregate between believer and
nonbeliever, it's only the savages who do that.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Kingdom of God is Within You
(Naskar's Version, S.2457-2459)

Leave it to the monkeys,
and every secular democracy
soon turns into a fanatic republic -

Christian Republic of America,
Islamic Republic of Turkey,
Jewish Republic of Palestine,
Sanatan Republic of India,

all run by prejudice legalized as piety,
and no humanity to speak of -
jungle grows tall in every corner,
survival of the chosen as ape gospel.

God's original name is Human,
but it isn't very profitable,
so the apes cook up fancy names,
and sprinkle in tales of magic.

Organized religion is the planet's largest circus,
where apes commodify divinity to sell tickets -
more divide means more fear, means more control,
divine distant from human is the holy grail of commerce.

Human is the first and final name of divinity,
but that goes against the entire religious
industrial complex - for the purpose of brevity
I say religious, but I mean fundamentalist.

There's not one religion but two,
one is commercial religion,
rooted in fear, prejudice and bigotry,
and the other is lived religion,
rooted in kindness and inclusivity -

the atheist and the believer
drink from the same water,
breathe the same air,
eat the same food -

mother nature, the actual origin of life,
doesn't segregate between believer and
nonbeliever, it's only the savages who do that.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“More divide means more fear, means more control, divine distant from human is the holy grail of commerce.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop