Dervish Quotes

“When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.”
― Shams-i Tabrizi

“When The Pillar Gets Weary (Dervish Sonnet 2776)

I don't utter a single word that
I wouldn't want to become part of the canon,
but person can't live on discipline alone,
so, having no lover to take my armor off for,
I found a different way to vent my vulnerability -

in the mainstream work I'm a pillar of strength,
while turkish is quite literally my love language -
english is the language where my brain feels at home,
turkish is the language where my heart finds rest -

none my mothertongue, yet both are my first language,
with spanish as my occasional substitute for english.

English is not my mothertongue,
english is my brother tongue -
spanish is not my mothertongue,
spanish is my cousin tongue -
turkish is not my mothertongue,
turkish is my lover tongue.

My territory is planet earth -
humanity, my civilization.
Figure what I didn't mention,
you'll learn the law of assimilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I don't utter a single word that I wouldn't want to become part of the canon, but person can't live on discipline alone, so, having no lover to take my armor off for, I found a different way to vent my vulnerability - in the mainstream work I'm a pillar of strength, while turkish is quite literally my love language - english is the language where my brain feels at home, turkish is the language where my heart finds rest.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Naskaristana 2789

I arrived with a clever brain,
walked among clever apes,
studied history written by winners,
so I could earn some ape respect.

Then I got weary of all the hypocrisy,
idolizing morons as savior of humanity,
mistaking the lens for the landscape,
confusing privilege as social sanity -

frustrated I plunged into fire,
brain, vanity, esteem, the lot,
all reputation burnt to ashes,
what remain is unflinching humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“A dervish is no longer a muslim,
just like an advaitin is not a hindu,
and a christly person is not a christian -
religion of a dervish is love,
religion of an advaitin is oneness,
religion of a christ is kindness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I am dust, I am ash -
I am cinders, I am grass.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Marham mazhab nahi dekhta.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“You cannot have a self, and not burn it. You cannot have a life, and not sacrifice it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“My theology has no relation to scripture, my theology is just human acting at full voltage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I am controversial because I ask for tolerance, I am controversial because I'm integration incarnate, I am controversial because I call for humanity, at the expense of both faith and facts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Sciences and theologies are my playthings, I'm the pulse before reason and scriptures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Go Burn My Verses (Sonnet 2636)

Burn the verses, I'll write fiction -
burn the fiction, I'll write music -
burn the music, I'll adopt a new language -
burn the language, I'll pick up paintbrush -
burn the paintbrush, I'll grab a soldering iron.

Take away one medium, I'll adopt a new one,
apes don't have the braincells to sabotage my mission.
The only unstoppable organism in the universe,
is the mind that embraces evolution over limitation.

You keep asking, how do I write so immense -
I keep asking, where's the off switch for this!
Every time I decide to take a breather,
ideas start pouring, so I keep typing restless.

You're welcome to burn all my verses,
still you cannot dampen the spark of oneness.
Today I'm Naskar, tomorrow another -
truth will find a postman, across time and space.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Today I'm Naskar, tomorrow another - truth will find a postman, across time and space.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“You keep asking, how do I write so immense - I keep asking, where's the off switch for this! Every time I decide to take a breather, ideas start pouring, so I keep typing restless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“There is no law, only I am -
no grand design, no master clan -
no sacred script, no chosen land,
only beating hearts and helping hands.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“If you fail to call any country your own, if the whole charade of nationality and tribal identity feels meaningless to you, then you may come and walk beside Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“If the whole charade of nationality feels meaningless to you, then you may come and walk beside Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Only Fact is Me (Sonnet 2655)

I'm the impulse before the language,
I'm the reason before the science,
I'm the pulse before the poetry,
I'm the kernel before the divinity.

I'm larger than genre, larger than grammar,
I'm larger than primate dictionary.
I'm the duty that precedes the path,
I'm the mutation before the humanity.

I switch languages like radio,
I switch cultures like seasons -
if you tie Naskar to a nation,
you've failed the Naskar mission.

Only fact in this universe - is me -
and I am nothing, so nothing is fact,
everything is flux -
and I - am the flux of infinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Khoon nahi, Rehmat pehchaan;
Ek hi ummah - saara jahaan!
Ek hi kalma - pyar ka peygaam;
Jai Insaan, Noor-e Nadaan!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Rehmat se jiye to har roz ramzaan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Vision Viraat, Vajra Avinashi;
Na koi dev, na koi daasi.
Love is the law, tolerance is anthem;
Dervish Divaane, Advaita Ruhani.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I'm the center that the dervish whirls around, I'm the flame that syllables dance around - You think Naskar writes me, Naskar is an idiot, I'm beyond Naskar, beyond every single puny mortal brain, I'm the original sentience that occasionally seeks out fitting vessels, with a dominant tendency of expansion and a tinge of naivety, and makes them whirl at my whim, so that your little toddler species doesn't crawl back into jungle slime.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Finite versus Infinite Naskar (Sonnet 2672)

Can I get my brain back now,
if you're done hijacking it!
"You're welcome to it, as if
it'll make any difference whatsoever,

you yourself have admitted that everything you write from thought is dull, that's why I took over in the first place!"

I admit, I said that, nevertheless, do not underestimate rational thought, it may not come up with magical lines and equations, but it does achieve a great deal with sheer devotion and tedious scrutiny.

Every potential transcendental idea still needs rational thought afterwards to be executed in the mortal world - alright, rational thought is nowhere near as radiant as what might be called divine inspiration, nevertheless, it has its irreplaceable place in society.

Besides, I let you take over because I'd already made my contributions to rationality like any other scientist during my first few years, that was when I didn't know you existed, I had read stories about you, but didn't actually think that you'd turn me into yet another flute, like you once did to my brother Jalal long time ago!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Either burn me or burn with me
(The Naskar Personalities, Sonnet 2924-2925)

Naskar has many zones - neuroscientist,
dervish, monk, decolonizer, sacred feminine,
and countless others I lose track of -

my nondual works are authored by Naskar the Monk,
my texts drunk on love are poured by Dervish Naskar,
my decolonial papers are penned by Indigenous Naskar,
my demisogynizing pieces are from Naskar the Feminine,
my behavioral documents are by Neuroscientist Naskar,

and all these are integrated personalities
of the Complete Human Naskar -
and fyi, your eurocentric narratives
do not have the scales to measure,
let alone analyze, such vast mental dimensions,
so I beg of you, do not bother -

either burn my manuscripts, as apes do, whenever
they're confronted with vastness beyond their
compartmental pea-brain, or throw yourself all in,
without ego, without intellect, without faith -

either burn me or burn with me,
there is no observation, no analysis -
fragmentation is distortion,
integration is creation.

I'm the experiment larger than labs,
I'm consciousness larger than brains,
my heart is larger than atria and ventricles,
I'm the Human larger than genetics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Either burn me, or burn with me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Naskar has many zones – neuroscientist, dervish, monk, decolonizer, sacred feminine, and countless others I lose track of – my nondual works are authored by Naskar the Monk, my texts drunk on love are poured by Dervish Naskar, my decolonial papers are penned by Indigenous Naskar, my demisogynizing pieces are from Naskar the Feminine, my behavioral documents are by Neuroscientist Naskar, and all these are integrated personalities of the Complete Human Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Some have problem with my inclusivity,
some have problem with my vastness,
some have problem with my velocity,
some have problem with my polyglottery,
and some just have problem with my skin -
and finding no filth, they just cook it up.

More power to you I say,
because more filth you cook,
more untouchable I become -
more accusations you invent,
more impossible I become.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I don’t even consider most of your tribal white giants as my equal, and you think I’ll be rattled by the temper tantrums of a bunch of underdeveloped neanderthals.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don't place me in the lineage of your tribal white giants, they were cute little smart kids, but that's all, my peers of heart used to write in arabic, turkish, persian, and sanskrit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“After the first ten or so books, I wrote one called "In Search of Divinity", where the shift happened, the tone of that book was so radically different from my already published more academic-style work, which had already established me as a neuroscientist, that I considered publishing it under a pseudonym, to prevent it from jeopardizing my scholarly standing -

but that work felt like homecoming to my soul, so I chose to continue my legacy in that newly awakened tone, and then on, my reliance on secondhand research declined drastically, except for when I required occasional empirical data.

Had I stayed within the narrow confines of facts and figures, in fear of being shunned by academics, the human race would've never received the vast multicultural, multidisciplinary, multidimensional Naskar Canon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock