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

“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

“The balm doesn't check religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yabancı Yarim: Sessizliği Dinle, Kâinati Duyacaksın

“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

“When consciousness becomes oceanic, character becomes titanic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“No Book Holds All The Answers (Sonnet 2967)

We are the test of humanity,
we are the proof of humanity,
nothing is predestined,
yet nothing is impossible -

not by divine intervention,
but by human determination,
which is why it is of utmost importance,
there must be no air of supernaturalism
surrounding my work, no matter how mystical
some of my verses sound on the surface.

Any book, old or new, that claims to hold
all the answers to life, is a scam.

Even my work is not unscrutinizable,
it's just that, my work is scrutinizable
only by individuals who've outgrown all
separatist thinking, without succumbing to
blind faith, apathetic logic, or newage magic.

The more ordinary we live our life,
the more extraordinary we become in time.
The more realities I contain,
the more unreal I appear to tribal minds.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Earth metrics are made for the monkeys by the monkeys, I am the barometer of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“If you want safe, straightforward Naskar, read everything I wrote till about 2017, if you got the backbone to confront prejudice, read things I wrote till 2023 - but do not even dare to touch the works I poured after 2023, with a tribal, sectarian, linear, neanderthal mindset -

post-2023 Naskar texts are not for a planet of apes, they're for the humans who have genuinely outgrown the constraints of nation, religion, faith, intellect, facts, fiction, and all that dualistic jungle garbage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Yoga doesn't mean stretching and bending like a bunch of circus animals, yoga means to erase the walls within, so that you are one whole existence, not all that quantum consciousness fairytale, just plain mundane day to day consciousness that does not see two, but one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human