Dervis Vadisi Quotes

“Secularism is not a rejection of religion, secularism is inoculation against fundamentalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“We are the God,
We are the Goblins.
Amidst fanatic foolery
we are divine lightning.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“If you can't find God in
people, your God is dead.
If you can't find holiness in
people, your holiness is fake.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Intellect don't impress me much,
Devoutness of doctrine repulses me.
Have you ever made a stranger smile,
Ever left your seat to the elderly!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“If you can't find God in people, your God is dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“If you can't find truth outside your scripture, your scripture is a lie.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“If someone is interested, they'll find time - if not, they'll find excuse.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“You Still Live (Overcoming Grief Sonnet)

After your month long battle for breath,
Today I place you in nature's lap.
I know she'll care for you well,
like she once brought you to the world.

Fact of the matter is, you still live,
just in different form among the elements.
Nature's forces make us awake and restless,
Nature's forces coerce us into eternal rest.

There is no heaven, there is no hell,
these are concepts made by cowards.
Life is too sacred to be confined
by obsolete lies and superstitions.

Your light of affection shall continue
to shine bright in my memories.
You who was, nay, is like my second mother,
I won't say goodbye, for you still live.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Fact of the matter is, you still live, just in different form among the elements.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Torment builds tenacity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Letter from God
(An Autobiographical Sonnet)

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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Secularism is not a rejection of religion, secularism is inoculation against fundamentalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Bereavement Sermon (The Sonnet)

You don't find a way out of grief,
You embrace it and it becomes your strength.
You don't find a way out of suffering,
You surf it and it endows you with courage.

Avoiding sorrow you won't find happiness,
Road to happiness goes through sorrow.
No matter how dark life seems tonight,
without heartwrecking darkness, we'll
never discover resilience, and grow.

Amidst the grief none of this makes sense,
I've felt it first hand this past month.
So I say, it's okay to be shattered to pieces,
but you must gather the pieces and soldier on,
for the sake of your living loved ones.

It's okay to not be okay, it means
your mind is trying to heal itself.
Persevering pain for those who live,
the sun will rise once again.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Heart alive knows the worth of brain,
Hence, it never undermines reason.
Sometimes reason must take a backseat,
that doesn't make it redundant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Worst kind of extinction is the one caused in the name of progress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“The heart and brain divide is sheer fiction; In everyday life, heart and brain act as one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Tradition divides, tradition unites;
Choose carefully the tradition you live.
Not all traditions imposed on you are good,
You gotta use conscience to pick and mix.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Broken heart is a brave heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Better be dumped than break another's heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“You don't need to abandon your phone,
Every era has its basic requirements.
But remember just one little thing,
Never let gadgets take over awareness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Time is born of awareness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Naskar nation - integration.
Naskar reason - assimilation.
Naskar vision - invigoration.
Naskar mission - unification.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Monkey see, monkey imitate -
Human challenge is to find yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Ardent critics of religion are just as animal as fundamentalists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Divine Lightning
(Sonnet 1416)

We are the rivers,
We are the confluence.
We are the zenith,
We are the mountains.

We are the climber,
We are the climb.
We are the clock,
We are the time.

We are the memory,
We are the moments.
We are living piety,
We are the prophets.

We are the God,
We are the Goblins.
Amidst fanatic foolery
We are divine lightning.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Sapiens is the saintly answer
to the clarion call of life,
True sapiens is saintly sapiens,
all else is desecration of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Till you cut ties to all authoritarianism, you'll never sense the spark of holiness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Answer must be molded compatible with context, contextless answer creates only more problems.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“If you use social media,
don't ask for privacy.
If you want privacy,
don't use social media.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“They ask me, do I ever worry about losing my magic? I tell them, my only worry is that, some day I might lose the morale that makes the magic possible. I pour magic because my mind is ablaze - the day the fire goes out, so does my magic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets