Global Harmony Quotes

“Why (Sonnet 2493)

Why is it that, for one religion to be true,
all other religions have to be false!
Why is it that, for one culture to find glory,
all other cultures have to be dehumanized!

Why is it that, for one people to prosper,
another people have to be exploited!
Why is it that, to conceive a brave new nation,
the landmass has to be sterilized of the natives!

Why is it that, for one nation to be strong,
all other citizens have to be tagged as enemy!
Why is it that, for one kind of love to flourish,
love's myriad spectrum gets banished to the closet!

Why is it that, for one community to flourish,
rest of humankind must be choked against the wall!
Why is it that, for the state to come into power,
the citizens must be brainwashed into vegetable!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Pluralism is not a polite idealism, pluralism is civilizational emergency.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“The Humanity Festival
(Interfaith Anthem, 2598-2599)

Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments.
Beyond the void of us and them,
join the circle, break the chains.

Festivals are not dates on a calendar,
cultures are not places on a map.
No festival is sin for no one,
there is no culture where we do not belong.

Ramadan is the remedy for apathy,
Christmas is the cure for animosity,
Hanukkah is the antithesis of tyranny,
Diwali is the antidote to atrocity.

Mercy is no mercy that's reserved for a few,
mercy is the light we carry in all we do.
The spirit of godliness that we hold inside,
is meant to light the world, far and wide.

Fasting and feasting turn to futile noise,
if life drifts from life, trampling human joys.
Candles and fireworks become childish pranks,
if underneath them all the kernel is blank.

Kindness in our soul, courage in our skin -
every person is my people, every stranger is kin.
Humanity is the festival, occasions are garments,
love is my homeland, heart is my parliament.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments,
love is my homeland,
heart is my parliament.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Don't need flags in the sky, we're the colors when we try.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“In a paradigm of hate,
be the paradox of love -
glue to the galaxy,
epoxy of the epoch.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Divide and rule, marks the animal,
unite and integrate, makes humankind.
We are stardust come alive -
unbent, unflinching, borderless mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I'm a traitor to every state that demands exclusive patriotism at the expense of their neighbor - I know you won't understand this, you are still monkeys after all, albeit in suits and boots, but one day your human descendants will breathe free, free from fear, free from bloodlust, free from war, because I stood as a human traitor in a planet of patriotic apes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“My mission is not to be a success story, I live as the specimen of divisionless humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Love your neighbor before your leader.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“It’s the Naskar Fever, side effects include – rewriting the world, you may experience thoughts too wide, and sudden urges to dissolve divide.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don't need reason to be kind
(Sonnet 2933)

Philosophies there are hundreds,
school there is but one - life.
Sciences there are hundreds,
wisdom there is but one - service.

Ethnicities there are thousands,
culture there is but one - kindness.
Religions there are thousands,
divinity there is but one - oneness.

Citizenships there are hundreds,
nationality there is but one - humanity.
Languages there are thousands,
understanding there is but one - empathy.

An animal doesn't need reason to be cruel,
a human doesn't need reason to be kind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Citizenships there are hundreds, nationality there is but one - humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Unified Planetary Heartbeat (Sonnet 2964)

You must not renounce your religion,
your culture, your country,
if you don't need to -
be the Naskar of your country,
your culture, your religion, from within -

be the Christian Naskar, Muslim Naskar,
Black Naskar, Latin Naskar, Jew Naskar,
Farsi Naskar, Sikh Naskar,
Slavic Naskar, Nordic Naskar,
Baltic Naskar, Celtic Naskar,
Turk Naskar, Kurt Naskar,
Azeri Naskar, Uzbek Naskar,
Turkmen Naskar, Uyghur Naskar,
Indic Naskar, Pakistani Naskar,
Aussie Naskar, Kiwi Naskar,
Han Naskar, Nihon Naskar,
Hanguk Naskar, Pinoy Naskar,
and all the other Naskars
you could possibly be -

the idea is not to destroy roots,
but to expand your roots so far and wide
that we could feel the pulse of each other's
cultures like one unified planetary heartbeat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The idea is not to destroy roots, but to expand your roots so far and wide that we could feel the pulse of each other's cultures like one unified planetary heartbeat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don't assume you understand Naskar
(Sonnet 2972)

Naskar Science is Naskar Theology
is Naskar Poetry is Naskar Philosophy -

and do not even dare to assume
you know what this means,
unless you've left your seat
to the elderly on a bus,

joined the religious festivities
of a neighbor from a different faith,
defended someone's right to worship
despite being an atheist yourself,

offered a glass of water to
someone from a different culture,
or sheltered an immigrant family
from your nation's fanatics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don't assume you understand Naskar, unless you've left your seat to the elderly on a bus, joined the religious festivities of a neighbor from a different faith, defended someone's right to worship despite being an atheist yourself, offered a glass of water to someone from a different culture, or sheltered an immigrant family from your nation's fanatics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I am the Fire of Yazd
(Sonnet 2992-2993)

I am the Fire of Yazd,
I won't be extinguished by warring apes.
I am the Glaciers of Kailash,
I won't be tainted by smallmindedness.

I am the full Moon over Mecca,
I won't be colonized by empires of insects.
I am the Sound of Sema over Konya,
I won't be silenced by noisy nationalists.

My current comes from spinning particles,
my compass points to where no map can lead -
I won't fit inside insect colonies
with compost for brain
and bloodlust for divinity.

I don't need to believe in distant heavens,
oceans of sacred are bubbling in my marrow.
I don't wait for the universe to speak,
I walk, and the universe gains voice.

Kainat is I, "I" is Kainat,
what power have cretins got,
to censor my culturelust!

Be it the will of the whirling corpuscles,
they could pen in a thousand languages,
across thousands of cultures,
wielding hundreds of disciplines -
earth metrics are made
for the monkeys by the monkeys,
I am the barometer of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I am the Fire of Yazd,
I won't be extinguished by warring apes.
I am the Glaciers of Kailash,
I won't be tainted by smallmindedness.

I am the full Moon over Mecca,
I won't be colonized by empires of insects.
I am the Sound of Sema over Konya,
I won't be silenced by noisy nationalists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I won't fit inside insect colonies with compost for brain and bloodlust for divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Sonnet 2992

I am the Fire of Yazd,
I won't be extinguished by warring apes.
I am the Glaciers of Kailash,
I won't be tainted by smallmindedness.

I am the full Moon over Mecca,
I won't be colonized by empires of insects.
I am the Sound of Sema over Konya,
I won't be silenced by noisy nationalists.

My current comes from spinning particles,
my compass points to where no map can lead -
I won't fit inside insect colonies
with compost for brain
and bloodlust for divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“My faith is goodness,
my fight is equality,
my flag is oneness,
my path is harmony.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“My habit is oneness,
my nature is expansion.
Shared space is safe space,
all else is extinction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I'm not interested in who'll carry my bloodline, I'm interested in who'll carry my madness, my madness for tolerance, my madness for oneness - always flawed, but never rigid, always making mistakes, but also correcting themselves, never without blind spots, but no blind spot worshipped as truth - tolerant of harmless make believe, but never of harmful blind belief, activist of humane reason, not elitist logic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Nationality and religion are like blood groups, it has no relation to human capacity and character, despite the superstitions and conspiracy theories; morons are found in every corner of the world, just like mavericks are found in every corner.

The only difference between blood groups and nationality is that, blood groups are a fundamental factor of medical treatment, whereas nationality and religion are fleeting vestiges of an adolescent species.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Every Culture is My Culture (The Song)

[Verse 1]
With infinite love brimming in my heart,
I have arrived at your doorstep.
Please my friend, do not turn me back,
let kindness grant a little space.

It's not my fault I wasn't born
inside the world you call your own,
but I have carried your culture in me,
like seeds of love I've grown.


[Pre-Chorus]
I may not speak your native tongue,
I may not know your way of life,
but do you not smile the way I smile,
do you not cry in pain and strife?

[Chorus]
Naskar sings to the human soul -
heed no hate, break the border.
Every country is my country,
every culture is my culture.

Now go burn with human fire,
let the tribal walls all fall.
Every country is my country.
every people is my world.

[Verse 2]
No more hatred, no segregation,
no more "your people and mine".
No more flags dividing hearts,
no more borders in the mind.

Every people ever wronged
are our people everywhere,
every tear that falls in silence
is a burden we must share.

[Pre-Chorus]
To hell with skin and flag and throne,
to hell with pride that blinds the soul.
Human hearts are one horizon,
love alone will make us whole.

[Chorus]
Naskar sings to the human soul -
heed no hate, break the border.
Every country is my country,
every culture is my culture.

Now go burn with human fire,
let the tribal walls all fall.
Every country is my country,
every people is my world.

[Bridge]
Blood doesn't make us human,
skin doesn't make us kind.
Culture cannot crown compassion,
love alone defines the mind.

When the suffering of another
makes us forget our name,
then the human race awakens
from its ancient tribal shame.

[Final Chorus]
Naskar calls the humans high -
let compassion lead us through.
Every country is my country,
every culture is mine too.

Rise and light the world tonight,
till the walls of hatred fall.
Every country is my country,
every people is my world.

[Outro]
Here I stand with arms outstretched,
at every door across the land.
Hold them with love and walk beside me,
for together we will stand.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“I don't want patriots that hang from flagpoles, and salute with backbone dangling from their derriere, I want patriots who wear their heart on their chest, carry their backbone as battery, and their brain as gear.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The Humanity Festival (Song)

[Intro]
Love is my homeland,
heart is my parliament.
Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments.

[Verse 1]
Festivals are not dates on a calendar,
cultures are not places on a map.
No festival is sin for no one,
there is no culture where we do not belong.

Ramadan is the remedy for apathy,
Christmas is the cure for animosity,
Hanukkah is the opposite of tyranny,
Diwali is the antidote to atrocity.

[Chorus]
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.

When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.

[Verse 2]
To be is not to be,
life begins beyond the fate.
I am here, I am early,
even if you arrive late.

No telepathy, no clairvoyance,
human presence is the miracle.
No mind reading, no brainwashing,
eagerness unlocks the oracle.

The question is the answer,
the urgency is the calm.
Clocks measure coins, not time;
my bruises are my balm.

[Chorus]
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.

When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.

[Verse 3]
I am beyond your backward singularities,
larger than language models and libraries,
just a conduit made of stardust,
I'm empathy circuits written in verse.

Look up from your gypsy tea cups,
outside your make believe star charts,
shake off the spell of algorithms,
reality speaks through human tears.

Love is not the absence of pain,
but the willingness to face it.
I'm every story ever suppressed,
every wound that never got stitched.

Justice is not law or doctrine,
justice breathes in you and me,
in our sweat, in our compassion,
in our stubborn will to be free.

[Final Chorus]
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars will rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.

Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments.
Love is my homeland,
heart is my parliament.

[Outro]
Kindness in our soul,
courage in our skin -
every person is my people,
every stranger is kin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“Earthistana Song

[Verse 1]
I was born without a lineage,
without a holy claim;
no prophet in my pocket,
no empire to my name.

But I rose from the ruins
of the borders they drew,
and I learned from the ashes
what a human can do.

World was carved with lies,
with flags of hate and fear,
but the pulse of integration
kept pulling me near.

So I wrote my own scripture
with the ink of equality;
no one is a stranger,
one people are we.

[Pre-Chorus]
Raise your heart like a banner,
tear the hatred apart;
every life is revolution,
every breath is an art.

[Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne;
Earthistana rising,
the world is our home.

No God above the human,
no border in the mind;
tolerance is our anthem,
the name is humankind.

[Verse 2]
I've seen temples feed on fear,
graves labeled as pride;
I've seen nations crowned with glory,
yet cruelty inside.

But I've also seen a stranger
share their only bread,
and in that tiny gesture,
every scripture was said.

We carry the dawn,
now let the darkness retire;
we're the rebels of empathy,
our ammunition brain fiber.

Let the world's wounded pages
be rewritten by you,
with the ink of courage,
with the rainbow of truth.

[Pre-Chorus]
Lift the fallen beside you,
heal the fractures of fate;
every act of kindness
makes tyranny evaporate.

[Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne;
Earthistana rising,
the world is our home.

No God above the human,
no border in the mind;
tolerance is our anthem,
the name is humankind.

[Bridge]
From monastery bells
to the muezzin's call,
from the wailing walls
to the city hall,

when our voices combine,
the soil becomes sacred;
the only holy nation
is the one without hatred.

[Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
oneness in our vein;
love is the revolution,
Human is the name.

[Final Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne;
Earthistana rising,
the world is our home.

No God above the human,
no border in the mind;
tolerance is our anthem,
the name is humankind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“In the military there is a phrase called "friendly fire", which is when a soldier accidentally shoots their own side, but once you're civilized enough to see the world as one country, you'd realize, like a human being should, that every bullet fired at another person is friendly fire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes