Jeremy Riden

“I know there is a God, for I have heard music.”
― Jeremy Riden

“Letter from God
(An Autobiographical Sonnet)

Some people chant Bismillah,
Some people chant Bhagvan.
Some people call me Lord God,
I'm actually very much human.

Seek me in church and temple,
I shall elude you for time eternal.
All churches are without God,
But God cannot be without human.

Above all hagiographies, human is real,
There's nothing more divine than human.
Godliness unfolds only through humanness,
Only sin in the world is the sin of division.

Secularism is not a rejection of religion,
secularism is inoculation against fundamentalism.
Religion is not the search for a mythical deity,
but the realization of oneness within every human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“If you can't find God in
people, your God is dead.
If you can't find holiness in
people, your holiness is fake.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Secularism is not a rejection of religion, secularism is inoculation against fundamentalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets