Neurotheology Quotes

“Comic book fans
come in many forms -
Some attend comicon,
Some visit the vatican,
Some visit vrindavan.

Some bury head in the bible,
Some bury head in das kapital.
When pages of books are
prioritized over humanity,
world gets infested with sheeple.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Personal fiction is a psychological necessity of the individual – hence, a right - why can't we simply accept it as such!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Best way apes know to make sure nobody questions their words is to call them divine intervention, rather than human creation. But if you could transcend the primitive instinct of connecting divinity with the supernatural, you would plainly see, human creation is divine creation - human intervention is the most divine it gets. That is why, my creations are divine creation, but that divinity is firmly rooted in my own consciousness - not in some imaginary heaven, but in my own organic and very much mortal human brain.

Quran, Bible, Vedas - it's all human creation, no matter how much their proponents peddle them otherwise. Sure, they have a divine element to them, hence, there is good in them, but that divinity, that goodness, is rooted in humans, not in some anthropomorphic supernatural deity.

Naskarism, Marxism, Buddhism, Sufism, Confucianism, Christianism, Judaism, it's all human construct. As such, none of it is infallible. Yours truly admits that, so did my friend Sid (Buddha), as well as my brother Mevlana (Rumi). And what's wrong with acknowledging the possibility of folly anyway! It is only through folly that fervor unfolds - it is only through mistakes that the mind expands.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Best way apes know to make sure nobody questions their words is to call them divine intervention, rather than human creation. But if you could transcend the primitive instinct of connecting divinity with the supernatural, you would plainly see, human creation is divine creation - human intervention is the most divine it gets. That is why, my creations are divine creation, but that divinity is firmly rooted in my own consciousness - not in some imaginary heaven, but in my own organic and very much mortal human brain.

Quran, Bible, Vedas - it's all human creation, no matter how much their proponents peddle them otherwise. Sure, they have a divine element to them, hence, there is good in them, but that divinity, that goodness, is rooted in humans, not in some anthropomorphic supernatural deity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Best way apes know to make sure nobody questions their words is to call them divine intervention, rather than human creation. But if you could transcend the primitive instinct of connecting divinity with the supernatural, you would plainly see, human creation is divine creation - human intervention is the most divine it gets. That is why, my creations are divine creation, but that divinity is firmly rooted in my own consciousness - not in some imaginary heaven, but in my own organic and very much mortal human brain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“God is Schrodinger's cat,
one moment it's there, the next it's not -
all depends on the state of mind -
God is the oldest fear-bending construct.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Those who don't understand religion, quote verses upon verses from scripture. Those who've attained true holiness, barely ever mention doctrine whatsoever.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Neurons are the birthplace of God,
Neurons produce all ghosts and goblins.
Life is a concoction of neurochemistry,
Boon and bane are both our own making.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Neurons are the birthplace of God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“What you believe or don't is of no consequence, one true god or another. Imaginary friends are often therapeutic, just don't thrust your friend on another.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Keep god or not as you need,
convert to whatever you like.
There is no other grand design,
except a beautiful human mind.

What you believe or don't is of no
consequence, one true god or another.
Imaginary friends are often therapeutic,
just don't thrust your friend on another.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Practical Theology (Sonnet)

Not sheep, not wolf, be human -
graduate from dogma to divinity.
Take theology out of the sky and
place it in the heart of humanity.

From stars to soil to synapses,
arrangement of atoms dictates reality.
From inanimate to animate to sapient,
humanity is an affair of cosmic serendipity.

All superstitions are practiced as truth,
all entitlement is passed on as enlightenment.
Acts of dogma are perpetrated as divinity,
love-n-reason feels dehumanizing to the intolerant.

Hallucinations are the foundation of perception,
delusions are the foundation of persecution.
Day you grow up to distinguish between the two,
you shall become a pillar of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Religion is not delusion, for most part it's therapeutic, but the notion that you're doomed if you don't pick a particular religion, is the most unholy, unkind, uncivilized, unsentient, inhuman mental illness of all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“More you talk of scripture, less you understand the sacred.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“As puny apes on an insignificant blue rock in a tiny backwater of the galaxy, we know nothing about the origin of the universe, but I can tell you one thing for a fact of earth biology, it has nothing to do with the anthropomorphic god of all the scriptures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“God of The Blue Rock (Sonnet)

God of the gaps cannot
be God of the world,
and God of the world should not
be abused as god of the gaps.

As puny apes on an insignificant blue rock
in a tiny backwater of the galaxy, we know
nothing about the origin of the universe,
but I can tell you one thing for a fact of
earth biology, it has nothing to do with the
anthropomorphic god of all the scriptures.

If all it takes is a couple of burning bushes,
magic tricks and fairytales to quench your
quest for truth, you have neither the brain,
nor the backbone, or the heart to explore truth.

Fairytales provide nourishment for the mind,
but only as tales of fantasy, not of truth.
Myths are crucial part of the social fabric, but
they must never become the backbone of society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

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

“Wandering the earth as a monk scientist
I've understood one thing about converts -
people convert to christianity looking for bread,
people convert to hinduism looking for answers,
people convert to buddhism in search of freedom,
people convert to islam in order to heal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Wandering the earth as a monk scientist I've understood one thing about converts - people convert to christianity looking for bread, people convert to hinduism looking for answers, people convert to buddhism in search of freedom, people convert to islam in order to heal - it has nothing to do with god, it has nothing to do with truth - every person carries a secret wound, religion we run to is the bandage that fits.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Every person carries a secret wound, religion we run to is the bandage that fits.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“When Naskar Runs Out (Origin Myth Sonnet, 2705)

Mission Naskar originated from the mind
of an ordinary mortal, named Gadadhar Chatterjee -
he was a crazy, illiterate, eccentric hindu priest,
who used to have hallucinations of his venerated
Mother Kali, not unlike how my own bond
with him ignited during my adolescence -

but that's not why I call him crazy,
he was crazy because despite being a hindu priest,
he used to sit for namaaz in the mosque next to his
fellow muslim, just like he used to call Christ his own,
all of which was blasphemy for a man in his position.

And from time to time when treachery of the world
drags me down to my lowest, so much so that
everyday mortal means feels powerless to lift me up,
I throw myself back at his feet,

like a ship battered from the voyage
anchored at its home-dock for repairs -
lo and behold, I emerge Naskar again,
with vision restored, and veins emboldened.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

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

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

“Rewiring Divinity, 2732
(Diary of A Monk Scientist)

One thing you must realize,
there is no absolute truth in this world,
whatever you put your life and mind into, goes.

I found the world's perception
of religion prehistoric,
so I poured my existence into rewiring
the very reality of divinity -

because, there is no other divinity out there,
whatever we humans come up with, goes -
and if some prehistoric baboons with two brain cells
could normalize blind faith as divinity,

then a human being with a hundred billion nerve cells,
could cast aside such blindness and redo divinity
from ground up, and this time, not as a coping mechanism
against the unknown, but as enhancement of our humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“If some prehistoric baboons with two brain cells could normalize blind faith as divinity, then a human being with a hundred billion nerve cells, could cast aside such blindness and redo divinity from ground up, and this time, not as a coping mechanism against the unknown, but as enhancement of our humanity.”
― 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

“In religion I was born, in religion I'll die, but my religion is not of the books, rather love of the world. To me, writing religion is like going home. At home I'm holiness, in holiness I'm home.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“The battery of religion is people, the engine of religion is people, the path of religion is people, the destination of religion is people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The Three Idiots: Lucifer, JC, and Naskar
(Neuroskit, Sonnet 2568-2569)

The other day Lucifer called,
I got frustrated, and yelled,
"would you please stop ringing me
every time an ape blames you for something!"

"Easy for you to say,
all you do is rewire their brains,
it's I who gets blamed for it,
for every damned sonnet of yours,"
replied Sam, practically fuming!

"Let me get your brother on the line,
perhaps he could pour some sense
into that hot head of yours,"
said I, and called JC -

"would you please tell your brother,
that I'm not responsible for
people's irrational outbursts!"

"Can you blame him though,
I mean, you kinda are,"
said the Nazarene, with a grin!

"And here I thought you're my friend,"
I replied, to which he said -
"stop whining, at your age they'd already crucified me,
all they do to you so far is, make racist remarks!"

And before I could respond, my trance broke,
and on the pages was this sonnet, with a final line:
Lucifer, JC, and Naskar, it's all one, all human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Lucifer, JC, and Naskar, it's all one, all human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot