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Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

Book by Abhijit Naskar · 8 quotes · Humanist, Social Justice, Inclusion

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“How does the bird come and go (Sufi Scientist Sonnet, 1300) How does the bird come and go, In and out of this bodily cage! So long as you nourish it with love, Who cares about some mythical fate! Cages are born of dust, In dust cages will wither. Yet you sob in love of cage, Oblivious to the endangered flier! With all knowledge of cosmic building blocks, How come you still cannot put an end to war! With all your high and mighty technocracy, How come children still starve and suffer! I say, put your intellect aside for a change, First unfold a human heart outside the cage. Otherwise, your posterboys of superficiality, Will turn this world into a wreck of cages.”

“They ask me, why do you speak for so many cultures, when you are not born in those cultures? So I asked the sun, why do you share your light with earth, when you are not born of earth? The sun told me, o ye of little mind, don't you know, light is not mine to give! Light is the intrinsic right of life, I am merely accessory to the motive.”

“Selam-e-Sapiens (Shattered Seer Sonnet) Sometimes I'm battered vagabond, Sometimes I'm shattered seer. No claim to name, fame or reign, Lovedrunk I write borracha poesía. Sometimes I'm mest-i-mevlana, Sometimes I'm my own Shams. Sometimes I'm dastan-e-dervish, Sometimes I'm selam-e-sapiens. I am no brahmin, I am the Godfather of brahmins; I am Parabrahma, the Brahmins worship. I am Adi, I am Anth, I am Ananth Adishakti. Leave your creed, crown and constitution, when you enter my door. I am but a human if you are human, if you're sectarian, I'm messiah galore.”

“The Illiterate (A Sonnet) I am poetry, I am the poet. I am literature, Yet I am illiterate. Illiterate am I of intellect, Illiterate am I of rituals. My literacy comes from the soil, My literacy makes the world equal. Drunkard am I, absurd am I, All I know is but love's insanity, Past all Cross and MC squared, Love is the only cosmic literacy. Be literate of books and brain, But more so of the dormant light. Literacy of letters earns you living, Literacy of love earns you a life.”