Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "secular"

In the old days tribal chiefs used to fool people,
With talks of tribal honor and heritage.
Today's chiefs in suits manipulate modern tribals,
With talks of national security and lineage.
When our ancestors behaved as tribals,
It is acceptable for they didn't know better.
But when we identify as civilized yet act tribal,
It is but a degrading stain upon our honor.
Though all politicians are not savages,
Paradigm of modern politics thrives on division.
So make not the dreadful mistake to think,
That politicians are gonna bring peace and elevation.
It is a world of citizens, citizens are its lifeblood.
You and I are its caretakers, not some elected vanguard.

If a tradition endorses hate and mistrust,
It’s the tradition that we must reject not people.
If a heritage endorses division and discrimination,
It's the heritage that we must reject not people.
If an ancestor passes on bigotry and barbarism,
It’s the ancestor that we must reject not people.
If a bible teaches phobia and separatism,
It’s the bible that we must reject not people.
If a messiah preaches blindness and conspiracy,
It's the messiah that we must reject not people.
If God commands oppression and occupation,
It’s the God that we must reject not people.
Above all commandment, love is the highest truth.
Anything that divides love is a stoneage residue.

From Karbala to Kurukshetra, from Jerusalem to Chanakkale, light of truth has never submitted to the howling audacity of divisive animality – then why should you? Remember, there is a karbala in each of you, there is a kurukshetra in each of you, there is a jerusalem and chanakkale in each of you. And till you accept defeat out of your own free will, not a force in the world can dampen the daring advances of love and reason.

So, get up – get out – and get lost!

Wanna lead the world? First learn about the world – get so lost in the struggles of each and every people of planet earth, that you forget where you came from altogether – get so lost in the struggles of the people of earth, that for the first time in life you start to breathe as a whole human being – get so lost, that for the first time you see the light of dawn not as a puny slave to puny borders, but as the civilized maker of a civilized world.

I am only the beginning – the beginning of a new kind of humans – humans who belong to not one culture, but many cultures – humans who speak not one language, but many languages – humans who study scriptures and science with equal enthusiasm, yet pledge allegiance to neither, and know how to use both in the benefit of humanity – humans who aim for neither belief nor disbelief, but warmth and understanding – humans who are more concerned with the real hard problem of inhumanity, than the outdated hard problem of consciousness – humans who sacrifice their life treating the real hard question of hate, rather than the mythical hard question of god. I am only the beginning – the first spark, if you may – the best are yet to come.

Naskar is a culture unto themselves,
Naskar is a nation unto themselves.
Naskar is a planet unto themselves,
Naskar is a paradigm unto themselves.

Naskar culture is integration,
Naskar nation is world nation.
Naskar planet is borderless,
Naskar paradigm is undivision.

Naskar is not a he or she,
Naskar is the whole of humanity.
Naskar is neither east nor west,
Naskarosphere is conscious unity.

Naskar is just a lesser synonym,
The original name is Human Being.

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.

I don’t do anything for reward,
I do everything as a record,
a record of conviction –
a record of resilience –
a record of thunder –
a record of sentience.

My life is a repository
of what is possible if you put
your petty tribalisms aside.
I leave this repository
in your capable hands –
draw from it as you will –
put it to use as you deem fit.

I’m a scientist at brain,
poet and monk at heart,
philosopher at conscience.
If this tickles you the wrong way,
it’s a sign of your medievalness.

Now I’m gonna tell you something,
which will make even less sense,
unless you’re a human of the future,
beyond the gutter of nation-n-sects.

I’m a muslim poet,
a humanitarian scientist,
and an advaitin philosopher.
Figure this out, and you’ll
crack the Naskar enigma.

In an animal world of inherited division,
I’m the human cure to all apish inkling.
In this white heaven of fear and hate,
I am forgiveness, I am Visvamuslim.

Some people need God, others don’t feel the need for it, for whatever reason. But the fact of the matter is, even those who do not believe in God, occasionally end up talking to some sort of fictitious figure, such as a loved one who has passed away. And what’s wrong with that?

Personal fiction is a psychological necessity of the individual – hence, a right – why can’t we simply accept it as such! Why do we have to diss another person for not believing in the same kind of fiction that we believe in! It is time we become an aid to each other’s light, not an impediment.

The Christ I know was a colored arab,
who took a stand against intolerance.
The Christ I know is the antithesis
of christian nationalism.

Naturally he became object of hate crime,
he was the classic case of persecution.
Thus the mortal man died for nobody’s sin,
but due to his own activist intention.

The Christ I know was a friend to love,
The Christ I know abhorred cruelty.
Yet you’ve made him a badge of horror,
justifying your most heinous atrocity.

The Christ I bear is a spirit of love,
no puny institution can contain him.
I am Christ, you are Christ,
when there is love, whole world is him.