Nonsectarianism Quotes

“Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is, when we come to think of it, quite inevitable. His vision of his own village may really be full of varieties; and even his vision of his own nation may have a rough resemblance to the reality. But his vision of the world is probably smaller than the world…hence he is never so inadequate as when he is universal; he is never so limited as when he generalizes. This is the fallacy in the many modern attempts at a creedless creed, at something variously described as...undenominational religion or a world faith to embrace all the faiths in the world...When a philosophy embraces everything it generally squeezes everything, and squeezes it out of shape; when it digests it necessarily assimilates.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America

“Move past the circus of manmade caves, within every heart you'll find a Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“My life is testament to the dream of united earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Dharmanator (The Nonduality Sonnet)

Pani, Agua, Water, it's all one;
Ubuntu, Advaita, Ahava, it's all one;
Creation, Consciousness, Evolution, it's all one;
To fathom this you gotta unlearn all separatism.

Division imposed by facts and intellect is just
as degrading as those imposed by faith and fiction.
True light of knowledge obliterates all divide,
instead of turning mind into a dumpyard of reason.

When a computer engineer becomes a monk,
then that monk becomes a brain scientist,
your revered paradigms are bound to crumble,
as all institutions stand on grounds separatist.

Apes may be stuck in prehistoric duality,
Norm of the cosmos is nonduality.
With your binary eyes of belief and disbelief,
You'll never wake up to cosmic serendipity.

Move past your psychoduality,
If you wanna unfold human vastness.
Faith and logic both will turn bland,
Once you wake up to sapiosentience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Pani, Agua, Water, it's all one; Ubuntu, Advaita, Ahava, it's all one; Creation, Consciousness, Evolution, it's all one; To fathom this you gotta unlearn all separatism.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“You can neither fathom nor manifest the true vastness of the human mind, with your puny binary eyes of belief and disbelief - facts and fiction - capitalism and socialism - democracy and autocracy - logicality and sentimentality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Selam-e-Sapiens (Shattered Seer Sonnet)

Sometimes I'm battered vagabond,
Sometimes I'm shattered seer.
No claim to name, fame or reign,
Lovedrunk I write borracha poesía.

Sometimes I'm mest-i-mevlana,
Sometimes I'm my own Shams.
Sometimes I'm dastan-e-dervish,
Sometimes I'm selam-e-sapiens.

I am no brahmin,
I am the Godfather of brahmins;
I am Parabrahma, the Brahmins worship.
I am Adi, I am Anth, I am Ananth Adishakti.

Leave your creed, crown and
constitution, when you enter my door.
I am but a human if you are human,
if you're sectarian, I'm messiah galore.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“The grand picture of life lies in the little moments, which the intellectual never finds, nor the superstitious. Grand picture of life dawns upon the life lived grand, It unfolds on its own once you're no more a tribal dunce.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“I am not a capitalist, I am not a communist, I am not a socialist, I am not a traditionalist. A puerile, clinically sectarian species like yours cannot fathom what I am. Does that mean, I am not the same species as you! Sure, I am - but from a different dimension - a different dimension in time - a different dimension in mind - where intellect is only a tool, not torture - where faith is only a choice, not compulsion - where money is only a means, not master - where oneness is fundamental, not fiction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Only sin in the world is the sin of division.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“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.

Mind begins in the wake of chains,
Life begins in the wake of sect.
A hundred hajj won't make you holy,
If your heart is ever cold and dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Pledge allegiance to no label,
Be absolutely, unequivocally nondual.
Move past even the concept of nonduality,
So that you become unequivocally whole.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Mind begins at the wake of chains,
Life begins at the wake of sect.
A hundred hajj won't make you holy,
If your heart is ever cold and dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“From Ape to Human (The Sonnet)

To label a spirit is to cripple a spirit,
What we call cultural imprints are prison.
Society of such culture is no human society,
but merely an overglorified animal kingdom.

Sure, the culture we're born in are part of us,
But it must never take over human identity.
That's how heritage facilitates bias-n-hate,
And culture becomes excuse for inhumanity.

Call it advaita, nirvana or humanity,
the purpose is to surpass all divide.
Anything that distances mind from mind,
must never be defended as cultural pride.

Mission is, not to remove cultural imprints,
But to be civilized enough to surpass them.
Only then can we be the bridge of benevolence,
Only then the glorified ape shall emerge as human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“My life is a repository of what is possible if you put your petty tribalisms aside.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“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

“Sonnet 1609

Myself Human,
Himalayan Human -
broader than your schools,
higher than your walls.

Myself Sapiens,
Serendipitous Sapiens -
holier than hagiographies,
stranger than quantum world.

Be a Muslim, be a Christian,
Be an Atheist, or be a martian!
None of these means nothing at all,
till we're each other's emancipation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Tolerate no hate,
Moderate no help.
Segregate no shelf,
Alienate no sect.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“No peace can ever come to light, from the doings of apartheid heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Any ape can boast about its culture,
I’ll die roaring for all but my own.
I am local of a borderblind world,
something illegible to the cavegrown.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“It's a small world as it is, don't make it smaller still with your puny, archaic customs of division.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Soul that is kind is soul divine, mind segregated is most unholy kind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“We need a civilized patriotism, one that is devoid of all sectarianism and cultural supremacy. We gotta be patriotic towards humanity, not nationality - we gotta be patriotic for justice and equality, not supremacy - we gotta be patriotic for inclusion, not the exclusive sustenance of our own dignity at the expense of the dignity of others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“We need patriotism, yes we do, but not the one practiced by our ancestors. We need a civilized patriotism, one that is devoid of all sectarianism and cultural supremacy. We gotta be patriotic towards humanity, not nationality - we gotta be patriotic for justice and equality, not supremacy - we gotta be patriotic for inclusion, not the exclusive sustenance of our own dignity at the expense of the dignity of others.

We need a patriotism where there is no us and them - we need a patriotism where there is no lord and laymen - we need a patriotism where there is no savior and subject - we need a patriotism where our savior is our sense of virtue - we need a patriotism where our queen is our accountability - we need a patriotism where our constitution and gospel are our own conscience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“End of rigidity is the beginning of religion, end of division is the beginning of divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Don't take the lens for the light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“The path of truth is the path of religion, but this path is not a christian path, a jewish path, a muslim path, a hindu path or any other kind of sectarian and tribal path. The path of truth, that is, the path of religion has no label of tribalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, A Push in Perception

“I keep facts-n-faith both in my back pocket, my chest pocket is always empty - nothing must hinder the light of heart, set your heart ablaze, unfiltered by frivolity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I decide what I am,
and I decide the parameters of what I am -
for example, I can be a monk and still fall in love,
just like, I can be a muslim poet,
and still consider the koran to be flawed -

I can be a theologian of any faith, and consider
all the scriptures to be a mix of good and bad -
my mind is the measure, not convention;
life is my constitution, not tradition.

This is how I created whatever I've created,
not in defiance of convention, but indifference -
I built my universe, aloof from foolish fractures,
to men of ritual it's a terrible sacrilege.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“In English we say:
lost sheep returns to the fold.
In Naskarian we say:
there's divinity in diversity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat