Spiritual Poem Quotes

“Saints don't turn water into wine,
Saints just turn tears into cheer.
Saints don't walk on water,
Saints just walk on land,
without drowning in hate and fear.
Saints are not magical beings,
whose basket never runs empty.
Saints are just mortal beings,
whose heart never runs out of amity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“Saints don't turn water into wine,
Saints just turn tears into cheer.
Saints don't walk on water,
Saints just walk on land,
without drowning in hate and fear.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“Day ends
The sun is waning
Sailing out across the sea

Night falls
The shadows come
But I've another sun in me.”
― Laura Jaworski

“You follow me everywhere I go.
I am never alone, never empty,
for your Love and beauty
resides always in my heart.”
― Marie Amara

“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 96

Only a few understand the language of intellect,
Then most of them arrogantly boast and trod.
But from the tallest mountain to tiniest grass,
Everyone understands the language of love.
I've practiced all faith 'n ideology for a brief period,
And I accept all of them to be equally human.
That is why everyone thinks of me as their very own,
Everyone thinks, I am their own school’s person.
I have no sect of my own, yet I am in every sect,
I have no school of my own, yet I am in every school.
One who loves, loves all no matter their label,
And finds a reflection in all beings including the fool.
There is no two, but only One that there ever is.
All separation is the sign of a spirit selfish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“No Priest No Prostitute (The Sonnet)

In my eyes there is no priest,
No prostitute, only people.
In my eyes there is no pope,
No pedestrian, only people.
In my eyes there is no royalty,
No subject, only people.
In my eyes there is no leader,
No follower, only people.
There is no intellectual,
No layman, only people.
In my eyes there is no superior,
No inferior, only people.
Hierarchy is malarkey maintained by fools.
Oneness maketh civilization across silly schools.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Be The Love Commandment (A Sonnet)

Instead of worrying about a fictitious judgment day,
Make your actual today a real nonjudgment day.
Instead of hoping for a fictitious heaven after death,
Make this world that you have an abode without hate.
Plenty of heart force we have wasted on fiction,
Plenty of attention we have placed on insecurity.
Now it's time to redirect our time and priorities,
It is time to be the valiant vanguards of reality.
I ain’t talkin’ about being chained to the reality,
Nor about keeping things the way they are for so long.
All I'm asking is, we pay attention to the now and here,
Instead of obsessing over tales from days long gone.
So, stand up to the tyrants as apocalypse incarnate.
Reach out to the needy as a living love commandment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Combine without Condescension (The Sonnet)

When all combine without condescension,
We shall witness God's face.
Then we shall realize beyond all doubt,
God has never been a person but a state.
A state of mind where division disappears,
That is what godliness means.
A state of sight where separation withers,
That is what holiness means.
This state is beyond beliefs and doctrines,
It is the sacred valley of life beyond life.
There is no life so long as we are divided,
Life united is life brought to life.
There is no God, only heart nonsectarian.
In that heart, You, I, the Father, the Son, all are one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“The Sapiens Experiment (A Sonnet)

If knowledge is power,
Love is superpower.
If curiosity is a gift,
Compassion is a trove of treasure.

More than abundance, focus on wholeness,
More than serenity, focus on simplicity.
More than leading, focus on service,
More than individuality, focus on collectivity.

To reason is great, but to accept is greater,
To be loved is great, but to be love is greater.
To have help is great, but to be the help is greater,
To seek light is great, but to be the light is greater.

Sapiens are the most spectacular experiment of nature.
To waste it all on presumptions is but sheer disaster.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Helper is Herald (The Sonnet)

Every peacemaker is muslim,
Every lover is christian.
Every helper is buddhist,
Every lifter is human.
Every lovenut is sufi,
Every braveheart is latin.
Every collectivist is jew,
Every secularist is advaitin.
All labels are futile,
If there's no substance underneath.
Focus on substance as a whole being,
Leave the labeling to the elite.
The helper is the herald,
the lifter is the light.
In a world with double vision,
selflessness is the only sight.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Oneness & Ascension (The Sonnet)

Religion that doesn't bring oneness,
Is not religion, but the original sin.
Science that doesn't lift human condition,
Is not science but superstition.
I don't go gaga over science,
I don't go gaga over philosophy.
I don't go gaga over religion,
Because humanity is my priority.
I use every tool with the potential for good,
After, of course, discarding its unchecked baggage.
I have allegiance to neither virtue nor vice,
I am but a lover, and love is my home base.
Oneness is the path, oneness is the destination.
Where there is oneness, there is ascension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Divinity & Division (The Sonnet)

The rosary and the crucifix are,
No more magical than a rabbit's foot.
Their meaning comes from the mind,
In search of security and couth.
Without the mind to add meaning,
To these objects and symbols,
They are merely trinkets,
Without past, without purpose.
Keep your trinkets if you must,
But don't impose them on another.
Trinkets may help you in tough times,
But don't use them as divine divider.
Division is the desecration of divinity.
Any act of divide is sheer blasphemy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Sonnet of Unlearning

Peace is not a matter of learning harmony,
It's about unlearning division.
Science is not about learning logic,
It's about unlearning superstition.
Health is not about learning medicine,
It's about unlearning over-indulgence.
Justice is not about learning accountability,
It's about unlearning indifference.
Order is not about learning law,
It's about unlearning recklessness.
Holiness is not about learning scripture,
It's about unlearning hatefulness.
More than learning, we got plenty to unlearn.
All of it starts with unsubmission to tradition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Radioactive Mind (The Sonnet)

In front of the radioactivity of mind,
Radioactivity of matter turns dim.
In front of the joules of a just heart,
A billion ohms of hate become nil.
Hate is the question,
Heart is the answer.
Hate is the sickness,
Heart is the cure.
Prejudice is the ailment,
Piety is the cure.
What is piety you ask!
Nothing but kindness more pure.
Kindness is divinity, kindness is sanity.
Wasting it to codify life is sheer stupidity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“What is Afterlife (The Sonnet)

Read a few books, you live a little.
Help a few beings, you live a lifetime.
Heaven is not a place high above the sky,
Heaven is the moment you're someone's lifeline.
Even I enjoy a good dc and marvel story,
But it mustn't turn you blind to reality.
To live selfish is the animal's purgatory,
To die while living for others is humanity.
Memory is the fabric upon which time is carved.
Where there is no memory, there is no time.
Neurons are the building blocks of mind and memory.
Where there is no neuron, there is no paradise.
There's not one but two paradise, one real, another fiction.
The real one is made of action, the other imagination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“Reason and Fanaticism (The Sonnet)

I feel at home with every faith and ideology,
Unless it's peddled with bigotry and arrogance.
I bear a clinical revulsion to booze and smoke,
More than that, I am allergic to arrogance.
You cannot reason with a caveman who starts off,
By saying, "my thing is the best because".
If you could reason with fanaticism,
There wouldn't be any fanaticism in the world.
Holding on to a belief system is very much human,
But a belief that undermines other beliefs is animal.
Likewise, to sharpen intellect is a good habit unless,
You sharpen it so much that it makes you mechanical.
Maintain a healthy balance between facts and fiction.
Learn to make your head and heart work in unison.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“Aum Amen Assalaam (The Interfaith Sonnet)

Jo bole so nihal - honest, brave 'n nondual!
Ain't no human run by divisionism.
You may say Merhaba, or Hallelujah,
Smiling I respond, Walaikum Assalam.
Every human greeting is an act of peace,
Language differs, not the emotion.
Yet we keep bickering over language,
Overlooking all loving unison.
Chag sameach say some of us,
Some say happy holidays!
Across the words, into the heart,
We'll find the flame of happiness.
Underneath every version of felicidad,
there is a sense of illumination.
Aim of all Aum and Amen - is unification.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“Esperanza Impossible Sonnet 39

I need a religion,
With less pomposity and more simplicity.
I need a religion,
With less noise and more tranquility.
I need a religion,
With less pollution and more sustainability.
I need a religion,
With less malnutrition and more magnanimity.
I need a religion,
With less citadels and more sidewalk.
I need a religion,
With less barking and more footwork.
Yet when I look around I get choked with all the pollution.
Perhaps the religion I seek doesn't exist, for I am my religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Interfaith Sonnet

Not every christian is a good human,
But every good human is a christian.
Not every muslim is a good human,
But every good human is a muslim.
Not every jew is a good human,
But every good human is a jew.
Not every hindu is a good human,
But every good human is a hindu.
Not every buddhist is a good human,
But every good human is a buddhist.
Not every humanist is a good human,
But every good human is a humanist.
Goodness is universal, vessels may vary.
Some call it water, some agua, some pani.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“Thus Speaks God (The Sonnet)

Ik onkar, satnaam,
Porque, yo soy insan.
Aham bismillahsmi,
Çünkü, benim adım vicdan.
Sarva dharman parityajya,
Giving up all national grave,
Nos haremos vessels of verdad,
Rise we shall as sapiens brave.
Divinidad está en cada cultura,
But no culture is pure divinity.
Human divided is human undivine,
Hatelessness is civilized divinity.
Thus speaks God in tongue beyond tongues.
One vessel isn't enough to contain my neurons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Divinity is in every culture,
But no culture is pure divinity.
Human divided is human undivine,
Hatelessness is civilized divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Hatelessness is civilized divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“I am Them All (The Sonnet)

They tell me to disown my words,
or the law of christ will strike me down.
They tell me to stop writing, or else,
consciousness of krishna will bury me in ground.

I look into their eyes and respond most gently -
My child, waste not your breath in cautioning me,
I am the spirit of Vyas that wrote krishna to life,
I am the law of Christ that parted the Red Sea.

I am in one, I am in all -
I am the universe in a brain.
I am creation, I am destruction,
After a long drought, I am the monsoon rain.

I am not a person, the person is merely a vessel.
I am but expansion of the past giants,
I am the spirit supreme, I am but love universal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Walk La Solo Ray (Sonnet 1006)

Heart immeasurable is measure supreme,
All other measures are caveman's dilemma.
What measured minds deem as blasphemy,
The immeasurable deem the end of myopia.
You can inherit money, not mind,
You can inherit cash, not character.
When heritage makes mind petrified of mind,
It is not heritage but a humanitarian disaster.
So what, if the measured don't flock behind,
Like they frolic on the beaches of frivolity!
The sun above burns alone giving light to all,
While the hyenas below never run out of company.
Defy all old and new that desecrate the heart away.
Hearken to no inherited fear, and walk, la solo ray.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Chrismadan (The Sonnet)

What happens when two ancient cultures come together!
They create a spectacular specimen called dervish advaitin.
When mistletoe and menorrah combine, heart shines brighter,
Beyond belief 'n disbelief, there's a land most enlightening.

Keep your outdated sectarian identities to yourself,
I am Jewistian, Hinduslim, or simply Human Universal.
Be the next civilized step of humankind's evolution,
Not just another savage vessel of mistakes ancestral.

Revitalized by Ramadan, humanized by Christmas,
Let's celebrate Chrismadan, as well as Hanukkawali.
Instead of carrying on as second-hand savages,
Habibi come, let us start living with humanity!

When all religions combine, a modern human is born.
Without integration there is no dawn, just endless mourn.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Every peacemaker is muslim,
Every lover is christian.
Every helper is buddhist,
Every lifter is human.
Every lovenut is sufi,
Every braveheart is latin.
Every collectivist is jew,
Every secularist is advaitin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Where Christian, Muslim, Sikh 'n Jew,
sit and share a cup of stew,
Where Buddhist, Atheist, Jain, Hindu,
live and laugh as one life crew,
There beyond, where sentience lets no storm to brew,
Out of the fossil, into the fervor, I shall meet you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Mind can never be empty of thoughts,
Mind without thought is a mindless lie.
Don't force the mind to be empty of thought,
Focus instead on fostering a thoughtful mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Firefly Sonnet

Firefly, oh firefly,
why do you gleam so!
Who do you try to impress,
who is the object of your glow!

Oh, ye of little sight,
said the gentle little beacon!
Creatures with light eternal,
don't shine to stir public opinion.

I gleam, 'cause that's my life,
I know no other way of existence.
Puny apes gotta find an agenda,
for most are anemic of effulgence.

And you have the gall to call us bugs,
while your mind is stuck in gutter!
My fire bears proof of existence,
you carry yours as cheap souvenir.


(Note: as a biologist I must mention, this is a purely poetic piece, not to be analyzed with science, for evolutionarily speaking, glowworms use their glow to warn away predators, and attract mate.)”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Have faith
in God alone.
Don’t doubt, fear, or falter,
but bend to His will and power.
Trust Him.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year