Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "learning"

Fate and future both are servant to the determined,
For they are nothing but creation of human determination.
Yet most of humanity remain oblivious to this simple fact,
For they’re born and raised in a society run by indoctrination.
Reason and questions are seen as treason against heritage,
Submission and guilt are praised as honorable righteousness.
Calling ignorance as righteousness doesn't make one righteous,
You are righteous when you have the guts to mend mistakes.
Ignorance is part of life, so is our drive for self-aggrandizing,
It's human to make mistakes, what's not, is their glorification.
Acknowledge your mistakes, biases, ignorance and prejudice,
We start to rise when we acknowledge our degradation.
Our ancestors were primitive humans with unused goodness.
If we die primitive like they did, why live in the first place!

Competition is for horses,
Education is for the human.
Either education or competition,
You can have only one.
Education ought to build character,
Not to raise snobs hooked on cash.
Love is needed, kindness is needed,
It won't come by raising tribal trash.
Cash-building education is uneducation,
For it only sustains self-absorption.
Character-building education is ascension,
For it paves the way for true civilization.
One can be educated yet a filthy savage.
True sign of education lies in selflessness.

Age doesn’t make you wise, curiosity does.
Intellect doesn’t make you curious, growth does.
Experience doesn’t make you grow, expansion does.
Travel doesn’t make you expand, self-correction does.
Cynicism doesn’t help correction, awareness does.
Books don’t make you aware, accountability does.
Law cannot make you accountable, humanity does.
Appearance doesn’t make you human, acceptance does.
Wokeness doesn’t make you accepting, character does.
Clothes don’t make character, conduct does.
Etiquettes don’t define conduct, goodness does.
Tradition doesn’t make you good, oneness does.
Oneness is the mother of all civilized behavior.
Without oneness we’re ever headed for disaster.

If a scientist has no humility,
what’s the difference between
a scientist and a computer!
If a doctor has no warmth,
what’s the difference between
a doctor and a butcher!

If a teacher has no curiosity,
what’s the difference between
a teacher and a circus trainer!
If a filmmaker has no originality,
what’s the difference between
a filmmaker and a photocopier!

If a cop cannot practice self-correction,
what’s the difference between
a cop and an executioner!
If a theologian has no integrative spirit,
what’s the difference between
a theologian and a mumbling parrot!

If a modern human cannot balance reason and warmth,
what’s the difference between a sentient human
and a creature from the swamp!

In the beginning even I was,
Bedazzled by the concept of truth.
It took me some time to,
Step across the lure of truth.
That is when I realized that,
Every brain creates its own truth.
So we’d never achieve harmony,
With the heartless pursuit of truth.
Understanding the definition of truth,
May differ from person to person.
But the virtues of basic goodness,
Need no divisive interpretation.
Always place love first, truth second.
Humanity first, intelligence second!

6. What is perfection?
Perfection is imperfections we’ve made peace with.
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13. What is nature?
Nature is order within chaos.
14. What is order?
Order is but friendship with chaos.
15. What is chaos?
Chaos is order we are yet to understand.
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21. What is knowledge?
Knowledge is ignorance we’ve chosen to correct.
22. What is choice?
Choice is the fulcrum of freedom.
23. What is freedom?
Freedom is the fulcrum of responsibility.
24. What is responsibility?
Responsibility is the act of backbone.
25. What is backbone?
Backbone is more than a stick to hang your head.
26. What is the head?
Head is the mightiest carrier of progress.
27. What is progress?
Progress is much more than mere functioning of nuts
and bolts.
28. What are nuts and bolts?
Nuts and bolts are our greatest defense against
unforeseen terrors of nature, on earth and beyond.
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53. What is heritage?
Heritage, in moderation, is an aid to growth,
unmoderated, poison.
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57. What is death?
Death is but the fear of life.
58. What is fear?
Fear is but memory of our animal past.
59. What is memory?
Memory is the fabric of time.
60. What is time?
Time is the meaning behind moments.
…
78. What is curiosity?
Curiosity is a challenge to superstition.
79. What is superstition?
Superstition is nature’s antidote to the insecurity of
the unknown.
80. What is insecurity?
Insecurity is wisdom of the jungle against possible
predatory attack.
81. What is wisdom?
Wisdom is the result of travel in mind, not in time or
space.

I teach myself when I need to learn something,
I correct myself when I make mistakes.
No two year old shaped as 40, 50, 60 or 70,
Has the maturity to provide me moral guidance.

I taught myself electronics when I fell for it,
I taught myself music in my youthful high.
I taught myself languages in sheer obsession,
I taught myself aeronautics when I wanted to fly.

Critics mail, I should add “biggest ego” to my bio,
I thank them all for an astounding revelation.
If I actually behaved befitting my capacity,
Half your legends will lose their reputation.

You only see the tip of the ice-berg,
Fullness of the Himalayas you’ll never see.
I chose to put many of my passions aside,
One path, one mission – one answer to calamity.

The biggest requirement of learning is to know your limits of the moment. Let me elaborate with an example. Alongside my mainstream works, I have wanted to create complete works in turkish and spanish for several years. And few years back, with my rather limited experiential understanding of both languages, I even took it upon myself to do so, but I got stuck on the very first page. Why? Because it is one thing to pen occasional gems in another language, and totally different to release an entire work in that language. I was ready at heart, but not at brain. So, instead of writing whole works in these languages, I simply made turkish and spanish a joyful addition to my mainstream work – however the original linguistic and cultural intention kept reflecting in the titles of works, such as Aşkanjali, The Gentalist, Gente Mente Adelante, Mucize Insan and so on. It was not until late 2023 that my brain finally caught up with my heart, and delivered the first complete original turkish and spanish Naskarean works to the world.

Know your strongholds, they’ll take you far. Know your shortfalls, they’ll take you farther. Strongholds help you enhance your predominant capacities, whereas shortfalls help you unfold new possibilities – they help you unfold new vistas of human endeavor.

The first few minutes of my first
stage talk were absolute disaster.
First few books were mere intellectual
commentary, lacking in original Naskar.

Don’t beat yourself up for the
follies of your early years.
Doesn’t matter, you made mistakes,
what counts is, you outgrew your errors.

If a life claims a flawless history,
rest assured, it’s a concoction of lies.
Flawlessness is mark of lifelessness,
to be alive means to be battered by cries.

Mistakes are the cornerstones of clarity,
they wire your unique perception in place.
Absence of error is the end of living sanity,
to fabricate your past is to obliterate yourself.

Knowledge aloof from people,
locked shut behind paywall,
bears no significance in society,
holds no worth whatsoever.

That’s why huge chunks of my works,
are accessible freely to the world.
In fact, if I had no bills to pay,
would’ve given away my last miracle word!

Record of light is not proof of light,
Light must be proven by existence alone.
Over a third of my sonnets are available
free, including some of my most potent ones.

Light accessible only to select elites,
is not light, but filth uncivilized.
Paywall is a violation of knowledge,
it vilifies the sanctity of human light.