Nazmahal Quotes

“Soil is forever illiterate, soil is eternally humble, yet it contains the wisdom of the universe, for it's made of the same stuff as the heavens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Every monkey thinks toxic masculinity is nobility, every monkey thinks blind faith is divinity, every ape thinks tribalism is divine fury, and brainless loyalty is patriotic duty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Beginner's Guide to The East
(Naskaristana 2758-2760)

Even when the west does embrace the east, it ends up drawing from superstitious fringes, and rebrands it as self awareness and spirituality - thus catholic guilt gets replaced with chakra cleansing, and christian afterlife is substituted with karmic justice -

for once in your life grow the brain and backbone to look at life as a living being, not as shape shifting vegetable, trading one gullibility for another, one fanaticism for another, one dogma for another -

there's no point in denouncing domestic dogma, if you end up importing your prejudices and blind faith from elsewhere.

Problem is, the race of apes have a stronger affinity to superstition than common sense, no matter the country or culture - westerners are drawn to eastern superstitions, just like easterners are drawn to western superstitions like ultraindividualism.

However, there is one little caveat here, while western ultraindividualism is rather straightforward and easy to detect, superstitions of the east, or in fact, any of the civilizations of global south, are often too complex for western comprehension -

so be very careful while calling out superstitions of the global south, in fact, put your caucasian cleverness aside, and take your cues from actual native thinkers, otherwise chances are, you'd be continuing your filthy ancestral habits of calling the natives savages, brainwashed by your subconscious colonial mindset, while believing yourself to be the voice of reason, not unlike how many of the brilliant militant atheists behave.

Remember one thing, the entire colonial terrorist lot not only believed that God was on their side, they also thought they were the voice of reason - so no matter how sure you are about your sense of truth, dehumanization always comes bearing the badge of religion, and waving the flag of reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“When The Woman is King (Sonnet)

When the woman is king,
no mother goes without leave,
no dreamer goes without choice,
no queer goes without dignity.

In a world run by women,
no gender is second gender -
in a world run by the indigenous,
no ethnicity is the second race.

Before the human race becomes equal,
first the dehumanized must reign supreme -
when the woman is king, that's the
last time the world will ever need a king.

When the woman is king, not queen, not princess,
but the absolute monarch of the kingdom of apes,
that's the beginning of actual human evolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Ultraindividualism is a mental illness (Sonnet 2716)

Ultraindividualism is a mental illness, and once the honeymoon wears off with yourself, that's when you start to feel the suffocating absence of other people in your life - even the brightest of star sometimes just needs to be the satellite in someone's orbit - we build our lives around each other, that's not weakness, that's our biggest strength as a species.

Under a microscope a lonely neuron struggles desperately to find a connection, stretching out dendrites in the dark, so does a human being, and once that existential urge for attachment is overrun by newage primitivities like ultraindividualism and what not, that's the end of consciousness, that's the end of civilization, that's the end of the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“We stretch time when we suffer,
we compress time when we're joyful,
we expand space in empathy,
we collapse distance through memory.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“When The Dervish Burns
(Naskaristana 2791-2794)

You cannot have a brain,
and complacent too.
You cannot have backbone,
and conformist too.

You cannot have heart,
and host prejudice too.
You cannot be human,
and popular too.

You cannot have a self,
and not burn it.
You cannot have a life,
and not sacrifice it.

You cannot have eyes,
and not see through lies.
You cannot have ears,
and not hear the tears.

You cannot have arms,
and not stretch in aid.
You cannot have feet,
and not burn the chains.

You cannot have veins,
and not boil at cruelty.
You cannot have nerves,
and not ignite at injustice.

You cannot have government,
and homelessness too.
You cannot have innovation,
and fail accessibility too.

You cannot aim for the stars,
while failing life on earth.
You have zero right to luxury,
while children suffer and starve.

You cannot have godmen,
and claim to know the truth.
You cannot be fundamentalist,
and have faith too.

You cannot have faith,
and fail tolerance.
You cannot have science,
and fail at service.

You cannot have culture,
and fail integration.
You cannot have internet,
and fail common sense.

You cannot have a society,
and fail empathy.
You cannot have language,
and fail understanding.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Sonnet 2713

Every monkey thinks toxic masculinity is nobility,
every monkey thinks blind faith is divinity,
every ape thinks tribalism is divine fury,
and brainless loyalty is patriotic duty.

Every ape confuses superstition with spirituality,
every ape confuses conspiracy with curiosity,
every ape confuses fear with reverence,
every ape confuses exclusivity with supremacy.

Every ape thinks their flag is the flag of god,
every ape thinks their land is the land of god,
every ape thinks their lingo is the lingo of god,
every ape thinks their text is the text of god.

Takes a human to feel empty without others,
takes a human to feel incomplete when alone.
Absolute self-sufficiency is a mental illness,
you gotta be extremely selfish to be happy on your own.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I too am a believer,
a believer in life over afterlife,
a believer in choice over creed.
I too am a creationist -
I am the creation, and the creator is me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“The Accidental American
(Naskaristana 2753)

Five whole years I went from
door to door, looking for support,
I wanted to build my own tech startup,
but all I received was ridicule and advise -

finally I withdrew myself
from the nation I was born in,
and placed all my attention on America -

I had zero money, my only assets were
my heart and brain, which was all I needed
to reshape America, then the whole world.

The Naskar you know is a direct outcome
of the entrepreneur that never came to life -
naskar the youngster failed in his innovation dreams,
so Naskar the Civilization emerged as the earth way of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You cannot have a brain, and complacent too. You cannot have backbone, and conformist too.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You cannot be human, and popular too.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You cannot have a self, and not burn it. You cannot have a life, and not sacrifice it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“What good to me are academic walls, what good to me are church ceilings! Mountains are my classroom, sky, my blackboard - nature is my canon, cosmos is my kin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You cannot have faith, and fail tolerance.
You cannot have science, and fail at service.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You cannot have eyes,
and not see through lies.
You cannot have ears,
and not hear the tears.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“When The Dervish Burns (Excerpt)

You cannot have a brain,
and complacent too.
You cannot have backbone,
and conformist too.

You cannot have heart,
and host prejudice too.
You cannot be human,
and popular too.

You cannot have a self,
and not burn it.
You cannot have a life,
and not sacrifice it.

You cannot have eyes,
and not see through lies.
You cannot have ears,
and not hear the tears.

You cannot aim for the stars,
while failing life on earth.
You have zero right to luxury,
while children suffer and starve.

You cannot have faith,
and fail tolerance.
You cannot have science,
and fail at service.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Mountains are my classroom, sky, my blackboard - nature is my canon, cosmos is my kin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Sacred stripped of supernatural becomes astronomically potent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“How come information travels at the speed of light, but empathy travels slower than a sloth!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“There is more to truth than knowing all the phrases.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“No colored wants your guilt, just be human and acknowledge.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Ending inequality must be the first priority of innovation, not a performative afterthought.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You can either have sacredness or segregation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Not free at last, but free at first - be the first to question inhuman convention, be the first to question unjust law, be the first to question cruel logic, be the first to question a bigoted population.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Faith doesn't become divine until you breathe oneness into it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“My spirituality has to do with equality, ethics and accountability, not aura, incense and vibration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“There's a difference between Homo Sapiens and Human - Homo Sapiens is a meaningless technicality, Human is a lived promise.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Life matters because life exists, no analysis needed, nor blind belief.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Stagnation kills consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace