Nazmahal Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Educated on the streets, enlightened in the soil, my role on earth is to inject the brains with humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“A holy person doesn't check religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Chosen people, promised land, divine decree, these are classic markers of ape language.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Call it Neuroscience, call it theology,
call it Sufism, sociology, or Advaita -
I am the ocean that permeates all rivers,
call it sonnet or call it Naskaristana.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I don't wanna be your first, just honor me be your last.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I am dust, I am ash -
I am cinders, I am grass.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace