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How does the bird come and go (Sufi Scientist Sonnet, 1300) | Abhijit Naskar | Pani, Agua, Water, It’s All One
“How does the bird come and go
(Sufi Scientist Sonnet, 1300)
How does the bird come and go,
In and out of this bodily cage!
So long as you nourish it with love,
Who cares about some mythical fate!
Cages are born of dust,
In dust cages will wither.
Yet you sob in love of cage,
Oblivious to the endangered flier!
With all knowledge of cosmic building blocks,
How come you still cannot put an end to war!
With all your high and mighty technocracy,
How come children still starve and suffer!
I say, put your intellect aside for a change,
First unfold a human heart outside the cage.
Otherwise, your posterboys of superficiality,
Will turn this world into a wreck of cages.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It’s All One
Lightyears of Sight | Abhijit Naskar | Tum Dunya Tek Millet
“You are the captain,
You are the coxswain,
You are the world’s oar!
You are the catalyst,
You are the analyst,
You are the tether to shore!
You are the time, you are the tide.
You are the vessel of love and light!
You are the space, you are the ship.
You are in a brain, light-years of sight!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
Intolerance is the Enemy, not Illogicality | Abhijit Naskar | Visvavictor
“Intolerance is the enemy, not illogicality. Argumentation without empathy is just hate speech. If someone is doing no harm, then who the hell are you to take away their fantasy! On occasion, healthy fantasy does indeed turn into harmful superstition – at that point it is the duty of every conscientious human to stand up to such superstition. Until then, keep your judgment to yourself.
You can never be a first class human being, until you have learnt to have some regard for human frailty.
The problem is not that we believe in a lot of weird stuff, the problem is that often we end up confusing our belief with reality. Keep your belief if you need, no matter how illogical it is, but always be observant of your belief. Be the believer as well as the observer of the believer. In your mind be a child as well as the guardian of the child. Allow yourself some fantasy if it’s not doing any harm, but never let it run amok.
Let me put it to you another way – a little bit of fantasy actually enhances your mental faculties. Which means, just like there is such a thing as too much fantasy, there is also such a thing as too much logic. Apply logic where logic is needed, permit fantasy where fantasy does good. Learn to be flexible, learn to be human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
Mind Quotient (Sonnet 1209) | Abhijit Naskar | Rowdy Scientist
“Mind Quotient (Sonnet 1209)
Throw away all stupidity of IQ and EQ,
They are but stain upon mind’s honor.
To quantify intelligence is stupid,
To quantify emotion is even stupider.
When the feeble psyche seeks reassurance,
It craves comfort in all sorts of nonsense.
Most times it resorts to the supernatural,
Exhausting that it resorts to pseudoscience.
It is no mark of mental progress to replace
supernatural bubble with pseudoscience bubble.
No matter how they try to sell you security,
Know that, human potential is unquantifiable.
IQ is no measure of intelligence,
EQ is no measure of emotion either.
But craving for IQ and EQ is symptom
of a shallow and feeble character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
Hijab and Habit (Sonnet 1185) | Abhijit Naskar | Visvavictor
“Hijab and Habit (Sonnet 1185)
Hijab and Habit are both
symbols of sacred humility,
Yet the latter receives respect,
while the former faces cruelty.
Christ is a revered figure to the muslims,
Yet muslims are frowned upon by christians.
Most christians are plain unchristian,
They are the cause of Christ’s crucifixion.
In the world of animal holiness,
Crucifixion continues in different form.
Bigotry once killed a vessel of love,
His pupils continue the hate and harm.
I have zero tolerance for intolerance,
whether from intellectual atheists
or mindless fundamentalists.
Facts and faith both gotta earn admittance,
by causing not crippling humane uplift.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
Himalayan Sonneteer Sonnet 56 | Abhijit Naskar
“Himalayan Sonneteer Sonnet 56
Seni seviyorum be insan!
It’s okay if you don’t get a word I say.
You won’t remember the words anyway,
It’s the sentiment that makes the way.
There is a bridge from my heart to yours,
But you won’t fathom it with all the words.
Oneness is a bridge revealed in silence,
Can you hear the pitter-patter of teardrops!
If you can’t hear the teardrops of a warzone,
All your philosophies are basically useless.
If we can’t light up the forgotten corners,
What’s the point in discovering photoelectric effect!
What’s the point of all these fancy words and doohickeys,
If human emotion sinks to the bottom of our priorities!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
More Important Than Truth (The Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | The Pastor Who Never Was
“More Important Than Truth (The Sonnet)
In the beginning even I was,
Bedazzled by the concept of truth.
It took me some time to,
Step across the lure of truth.
That is when I realized that,
Every brain creates its own truth.
So we’d never achieve harmony,
With the heartless pursuit of truth.
Understanding the definition of truth,
May differ from person to person.
But the virtues of basic goodness,
Need no divisive interpretation.
Always place love first, truth second.
Humanity first, intelligence second!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
Soulmine | Abhijit Naskar | Vande Vasudhaivam (Now Out)
“You are sanity, you are sentience,
You are the lifeforce of destiny.
You are conscience, you are concord,
You are the end of animosity.
Give up your chase of goldmine,
Labor in the caverns of soulmine.
You shall be rich where it really counts,
Beyond the dreams of animalkind.
If you must love, love without any agenda,
If they love you back, your heart grows softer,
If they break you, your heart grows stronger,
Either way, in act of love there is no failure.
Our mutual vulnerability is our greatest strength,
Across all insecurity let us be vulnerable together.
In hopelessness we are each other’s compass,
In vulnerability we are each other’s vigor.
United we are alive,
Divided we are dead.
Integrated we’re lovers,
Divided we are duffers.
Intellect is not the answer,
Belief is not the answer.
These only amplify what we really are,
Good becomes great, jerk becomes jerker.
Be love and be light –
watch the fall of worldly fright.
Be free and be responsible –
watch the society take its flight.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
On Existentialism, Empiricism and Humanism | Abhijit Naskar | Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Not aim for nondivision, we gotta start from nondivision – not aim for secularism, we gotta start from secularism – not aim for harmony, we gotta start from harmony.
Harmony is the starting point – integration is the starting point – universal acceptance is the starting point. It is this simple, yet why do we complicate it with so much intellectual jargon, like existentialism, empiricism, humanism and so on!
Why can’t the human simply be human!
A real existentialist pays attention to existence, not to existentialism. A real empiricist pays attention to the rightful use of empirical evidence, not to mere empiricism. A real humanist pays attention to a life of human substance, not to shallow theoretical concepts like humanism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
Giants in Jeans Sonnet 97 | Abhijit Naskar
“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 97
Age doesn’t make you wise, curiosity does.
Intellect doesn’t make you curious, growth does.
Experience doesn’t make you grow, expansion does.
Travel doesn’t make you expand, self-correction does.
Cynicism doesn’t help correction, awareness does.
Books don’t make you aware, accountability does.
Law cannot make you accountable, humanity does.
Appearance doesn’t make you human, acceptance does.
Wokeness doesn’t make you accepting, character does.
Clothes don’t make character, conduct does.
Etiquettes don’t define conduct, goodness does.
Tradition doesn’t make you good, oneness does.
Oneness is the mother of all civilized behavior.
Without oneness we’re ever headed for disaster.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
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