Monk Scientist Quotes

“Ignorance is animal blessing,
knowledge is human curse.
Selfishness is animal tradition,
service is human choice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

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

“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

“Pilgrimage to Plurality (Sonnet 2499)

Forget the canon, you can't even make sense
of my titles, bleating like nationalist livestock,
and chanting like brainless bacon - you have to
have a certain amount of multicultural tendency,
which in a way, is your first test of pilgrimage,
moreover, it's the key to the Naskar Canon.

If you have no desire to step outside your culture,
there's no point in grabbing any of my text,
you might as well pick up a chinese or arab text,
and expect to be an expert while speaking only English.

My script may be English, my language is not -
remove your assumptions, transcend your disciplines;
it is only through pilgrimage to plurality,
that an ape ascends into humanity.

My goal is not to replace
white supremacy with colored supremacy,
or christian supremacy with muslim supremacy,
or blind faith with dispassionate logic,
I am a stateless weaver of human plurality.”
― 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

“By the time I'm finished with science, science would be more service centered than religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“By the time I'm finished with religion, religion would be more allergic to superstition and prejudice than science. By the time I'm finished with science, science would be more service centered than religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I am born of dust, and as I'm nearing to be dust again, my tolerance of intolerance has become apocalyptic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I'm not a nerd, I'm the manufacturing plant of humanitarian nerds, whose nationality is humanity, whose worship is reason, whose madness is world uplift, whose culture is integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Shallow science fights spirituality, deep science becomes it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Neuroscience done honestly dissolves the self.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Early Naskar, 2015-17, was mostly borrowed research with occasional original Naskar, mid Naskar, 2017-21, was mostly original Naskar with occasional borrowed data, late phase Naskar, 2021 onward, is pure Naskar, beyond the scale and scope of institutions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Philosophy is just a kid brother to theology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Naskargen (Sonnet 3000)

It all started with a promise -
Liberty is my religion, Humans are my God;
what took to paper as a penniless dream,
ignited the planet with culture of integration.

Journey of civilization begins with
one person rejecting an outdated tradition,
evolution of apes to human begins with
one person disposing of their flag in a museum.

Divinity of the past was based in sky-fiction,
divinity of the present must be rooted in life;
science of the robots revolves around metal,
science of the humans must center around mind.

Faith fixated on no prophecy, no propaganda,
I entrust my promise upon you,
my promise, my rebellion, my madness -
if there is not a single Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The Naskar Controversy (Sonnet 2525)

Yes, Naskar is a controversial figure,
not because I sell antivaxx nonsense,
not because I sell eugenics nonsense,
not because I sell patriotic garbage,
not because I sell newage garbage, in fact,
these are the very germs my life disinfects -

I am controversial because my backbone
doesn't seek validation from no institution,
either faith based or intellectual -

I am controversial because the planet of apes
cannot quite figure out the sectarian membership
of my post-discipline, post-dogma, post-cultural,
post-national, post-fanatic, post-algorithmic mind -
and anything that apes cannot understand, apes mistrust,
not just apes of ritual, but also apes of intellect.

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

“My divinity, my design -
my truth, my decision -
my society, my justice -
my planet, my duty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Naskar is when Naskar is not
(Sonnet 2550)

Ask the dust of my footsteps
on sands, where no history sleeps,
the truth of my becoming lies,
where no calendar keeps.

Ask the wind that remembers
every pilgrim who walked in flame,
it'll tell you how a mortal
outgrew the burden of name.

Ask the moon that saw my silence,
long before it witnessed my speech,
it will whisper how the cosmos
poured me truths no scriptures teach.

Ask the blaze of my trail,
if you drown in doubts or dismay -
you exist best when you exist not,
every seeker is tomorrow's yesterday.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot