Nazmahal Quotes

“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

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

“A dervish is no longer a muslim,
just like an advaitin is not a hindu,
and a christly person is not a christian -
religion of a dervish is love,
religion of an advaitin is oneness,
religion of a christ is kindness.”
― 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

“Naskaristana 2789

I arrived with a clever brain,
walked among clever apes,
studied history written by winners,
so I could earn some ape respect.

Then I got weary of all the hypocrisy,
idolizing morons as savior of humanity,
mistaking the lens for the landscape,
confusing privilege as social sanity -

frustrated I plunged into fire,
brain, vanity, esteem, the lot,
all reputation burnt to ashes,
what remain is unflinching humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“My suffering is my path,
pain broadens perception -
churn long enough,
and poison becomes potion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Truth is relevant only in its subservience to life, otherwise, truth is just another blind faith.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Sacred Without Supernatural
(Monk Scientist Diary, 2706)

Sacred stripped of supernatural
becomes astronomically potent -
blasphemy that ends prejudice is holy,
the divine is just human at full voltage.

Theology, philosophy, all are vanity -
bow to the breeze, submit to the soil.
Enlist as disciple to the original masters,
being awakens braving the heat of turmoil.

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.

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

“Absolute self-sufficiency is a mental illness, you gotta be extremely selfish to be happy on your own.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Logic doesn't become science until you breathe empathy into it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“My school is existence, not existentialism. No ism is sufficient, my home is integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace