Interfaith Quotes

“Awakening to faith is not a one-time event, but a continuously unfolding reality. The journey of faith is not a race, but a marathon of love that each person walks at a different pace.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

“Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.”
― Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, The Religion of God

“Jai Insaan, Cheytna Saagar;
Jai Vivek, Vidyut Ujaagar.
Koi bole water, koi bole paani;
Koi bole darvish, koi sanyaasi.

Utho Insaan, Marham ka Sagar;
Ana al Haq, Vigyan Ujaagar.
Koi bole water, koi bole paani;
Koi bole scientist, koi bole sufi.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Some ask for water, some ask for pani - somewhere I'm scientist, somewhere I'm sufi. I cannot explain this (nonduality) to your puny eurocentric analytical psyche, even to try would be like explaining neuroscience to a neanderthal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I burnt my life as proof that Naskar is human, yet apes continue to google, what religion is Naskar, what nationality is Naskar!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I'm known by many names - Hometown Human, Vijdansaadet, Divine Refugee or Abigitano - all names aim at one mind - Mujize Insan, Kral Fakir, Visvavictor or Mental por El Mundo.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead, what they think of other religions, and if their response is that of appreciation, then you know that their heart is truly sacred, but if they rush to blabber about their own religion, then they're no more holy than I am white.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead, what they think of other religions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Here, you take the Naskar Pen,
now go lead with the Dream of the King -
from fractured past to conscious dawn,
a human nation will sure be born.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Naskar is not linear, Naskar is not binary, remember that, before you start analyzing Naskar with your two little backwater, linear, binary brain cells. I roam across dimensions, across disciplines, across cultures, languages, and timelines, across entire spectrums of electrochemical experiences, of which the tribally paralyzed carbon based, mammalian, biped lifeform can only register a sliver.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Your dictionaries are too small for my voice, your disciplines are too primitive for my existence - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Every day is Naskar Day, and every Naskar Day is everybody's day.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“If you could finish even half of what I've written, you'd either hate me enough to kill, or you'd be so massive a human that everywhere you look you'd find your own reflection, wearing different skin and different clothes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The White Delusion (Naskaristana 2912)

Reason is fundamental, but there is a difference
between militant, imperial rationalism and human reason,
develop your character till you can tell them apart -

because militant rationalism often ends up violating
human welfare, just as religious fanaticism does,
except it does so under the banner of ivory logic,
or to be specific, white eurocentric logic.

Militant rationalism is suitable for a cold,
technocratic, mechanistic society, but for
a warm, humane society you must never let parasites
nest in your brain, whether they come waving the
flag of intolerant religion or intolerant reason.

Treat those parasites like lost sheep,
be as condescending as you can,
be ridiculously patronizing,
without actually being bitter,
treat them like the toddler they are,
lost in the white delusion of dualism.

Don't harm either fanatics, don't cuss them,
just bring them flower, and wish them a swift recovery!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Never let parasites nest in your brain, whether they come waving the flag of intolerant religion or intolerant reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don’t harm either fanatics (militant atheists and religious fanatics), don’t cuss them, just bring them flower, and wish them a swift recovery!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Reason is fundamental, but there is a difference between militant, imperial rationalism and human reason, develop your character till you can tell them apart – because militant rationalism often ends up violating human welfare, just as religious fanaticism does, except it does so under the banner of ivory logic, or to be specific, white eurocentric logic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I'm not interested in the path you walk, I'm only interested in how you behave along the way.”
― 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

“Religions there are thousands, divinity there is but one - oneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Portrait of A Human (Sonnet 2938)

Books are my jewellery,
memories are my assets.
Languages are my liquor,
cultures are my cocaine.

Brain is my engine,
heart is my compass,
backbone is my battery,
character is my garment.

No manifestation, just perspiration.
No vibration, just aspiration.
No bending like goat,
no bowing like sheep -
no bleating, only revolution.

The planet pulses in my blood vessels,
I cannot fit into a monkey's passport.
Cosmos bubbles through my consciousness,
I cannot fit into your animal customs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The planet pulses in my blood vessels,
I cannot fit into a monkey's passport.
Cosmos bubbles through my consciousness,
I cannot fit into your animal customs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The Naskar Scandal (Sonnet 2945)

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.

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 -

more power to you I say,
because more filth you cook,
more untouchable I become -
more accusations you invent,
more impossible I become -

and yet, I forgive you my child,
I forgive you, and I'm quite confident,
you too will evolve into human someday,
if not you, your descendants will.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Evolution of Naskar (Sonnet 2693-2694)

I didn't have internet while growing up, I used to save pocket money to buy nonfiction, and lots of dictionaries - I used to keep them sprawled open around me on the floor during homework,

and later when I published my first book, I leaned back into that same childhood habit, I remember spending months gathering notes from heaps of downloaded research publications.

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.

Science-heavy works are not necessarily truth-heavy works, just like scripture-heavy works are not necessarily divine-heavy works.

No risk, no discovery - no discovery, no humanity; 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

“No risk, no discovery - no discovery, no humanity; 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

“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

“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

“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

“Don't say 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