Sufi Quotes

“Love is the only cosmic literacy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“In some circles, I am called a genius,
Yet the only genius I know of is service.
In other circles, I am branded fraud,
Yet the only fraud I know of is prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“They ask me,
why do you speak for so many cultures,
when you are not born in those cultures?
So I asked the sun,
why do you share your light with earth,
when you are not born of earth?

The sun told me,
o ye of little mind, don't you know,
light is not mine to give!
Light is the intrinsic right of life,
I am merely accessory to the motive.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Literacy of letters earns you living,
Literacy of love earns you a life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Most potent medicine we have is each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Take my Bible, Koran & Vedas,
Take my Origin of Species.
Throw me to the fires of hell,
My life will still smell of roses.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Saying, you've explored my work,
after spending an evening scrolling
through a few quotes, is like saying,
you've climbed Mount Everest,
after spending an evening scrolling
through pictures of the Himalayas.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat
(Pani, Agua, Water Sonnet)

In some circles, I am called a genius,
Yet the only genius I know of is service.
In other circles, I am branded fraud,
Yet the only fraud I know of is prejudice.

Saying, you've explored my work,
after spending an evening scrolling
through a few quotes, is like saying,
you've climbed Mount Everest,
after spending an evening scrolling
through pictures of the Himalayas.

Yet I can tell you who I am,
I don't need a million lines but one.
Iman insaniyat, mazhab muhabbat*;
Pani, agua, water, it's all one.

Take my Bible, Koran & Vedas,
Take my Origin of Species.
Throw me to the fires of hell,
My life will still smell of roses.

(*faith humanity, religion love)”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Time doesn't remember your religion, time doesn't remember your brilliance, time only remembers your warmth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“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

“Leave your creed, crown and constitution, when you enter my door.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“You can train a mind to think, but you can't train a heart to love. Either you love or you don't, there's no training. Either you love or you don't, there's no thinking. Nobody thinks twice before hating, then why should you think twice before loving! Until love becomes instinctive as hate, nothing will change.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Until love becomes instinctive as hate, nothing will change.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“The Illiterate (A Sonnet)

I am poetry,
I am the poet.
I am literature,
Yet I am illiterate.

Illiterate am I of intellect,
Illiterate am I of rituals.
My literacy comes from the soil,
My literacy makes the world equal.

Drunkard am I, absurd am I,
All I know is but love's insanity,
Past all Cross and MC squared,
Love is the only cosmic literacy.

Be literate of books and brain,
But more so of the dormant light.
Literacy of letters earns you living,
Literacy of love earns you a life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Drunkard am I, absurd am I,
All I know is but love's insanity,
Past all Cross and MC squared,
Love is the only cosmic literacy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“I am a sufi poet, an advaitin philosopher, and a humanitarian scientist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“How does the bird come and go
(Sufi Scientist Sonnet, 1300)

How does the bird come and go,
In and out of this bodily cage!
So long as you nourish it with love,
Who cares about some mythical fate!

Cages are born of dust,
In dust cages will wither.
Yet you sob in love of cage,
Oblivious to the endangered flier!

With all knowledge of cosmic building blocks,
How come you still cannot put an end to war!
With all your high and mighty technocracy,
How come children still starve and suffer!

I say, put your intellect aside for a change,
First unfold a human heart outside the cage.
Otherwise, your posterboys of superficiality,
Will turn this world into a wreck of cages.”
― 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, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Person is the ailment,
Person is the treatment.
Person alive in act of love,
is ointment to all derangement.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Stand undaunted as divine prophecy,
Resuscitated by the sight of life.
Seer you are, seeker you are.
Seek no more, for you are the light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Detachment is excuse of the spineless,
Distance is excuse for the dead.
Come close, let's get ruined together!
Why do you stay afar, obeying the dead!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“I am but a drunken treasure,
with neither beginning nor end.
Don't fall prey to gatekeepers -
I am the valley, you are my gate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“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

“Love is the only way,
all else is futile.
Pain of love is pearl of love,
all else is vain and vile.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“I am the valley, you are my gate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Beyond tongue and tradition,
Beyond king and nation,
Beyond ignorance and intolerance,
Beyond fear and fanaticism,
There's a valley of love and laughter.
Come someday, I shall meet you there.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“The lines between neuroscience, philosophy, poetry, theology and sociology do not exist in my works. Divisions exist only in the world of amateurs - the deeper you go in mind, the more undivided you become, until you finally realize, it's all one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Love is poetry of the cosmos,
Love is constitution supreme.
Breaking all comatose sanity,
Love dawns consciousness supreme.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Love is poetry of the cosmos.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“For justice I am mental,
My honor is not rental.
Amidst all heritage of fear,
I choose to be love elemental.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets