Visvavatan Quotes

“World leeches masquerading as world leaders, would sell their mothers if the price is right.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Timing for a dream is never right,
Yet you must persevere against the tide.
A tenacious mind can turn any table,
Even amidst the utter absence of light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Divide and divine can never go together.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Vulnerable Love (The Sonnet)

Choose me if you feel something,
not because it's convenient or glorious.
I have neither the interest nor the strength,
to go out again and look for someone else.

If you choose me, you are stuck with me,
through thick and thin, through everything.
It won't always be clear and sunny,
sometimes it'll be blue, sometimes boring.

True love is not something you find,
True love is something you nurture together.
Once you rediscover yourself in someone,
Never turn your back, come hell or high water!

Any ape can find escape in romance novels,
It takes a human to be the living pillar of love.
While every robot seeks emotional maturity,
Be the human who cherishes vulnerable love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Letter to My Soldiers

I am only the beginning - the beginning of a new kind of humans - humans who belong to not one culture, but many cultures - humans who speak not one language, but many languages - humans who study scriptures and science with equal enthusiasm, yet pledge allegiance to neither, and know how to use both in the benefit of humanity - humans who aim for neither belief nor disbelief, but warmth and understanding - humans who are more concerned with the real hard problem of inhumanity, than the outdated hard problem of consciousness - humans who sacrifice their life treating the real hard question of hate, rather than the mythical hard question of god. I am only the beginning - the first spark, if you may - the best are yet to come.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“If you cared about the thousands of children suffering today in Gaza, as much you care about the birth of one middle eastern child two thousand years ago, perhaps then, you could've understood the true meaning of Christmas.

As of now, Christmas is just a festival of hypocrisy - and that too, in the name of a man who gave his life to lift up the fallen. My question is, if you cannot be Christlike in your deeds, what's the point of all these festivities, which are supposed to be rooted in goodwill towards all, not mindless self-obsession!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“If you wanna learn about tolerance, ask a person of color, How do you even tolerate the sight of white people, when the wrongs done to you by whites are unparalleled in history!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Todos los caminos llevan a la gente.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“It’s not about feeling guilty, it’s about feeling human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“In hollywood white man saves the world, in the real world white man has wrecked the world more times than he could make amends for in a thousand years.

So, to get straight to the point - the only way America could be considered a civilized nation, is if we embrace and celebrate our identity as an integrated society - otherwise, everything about America screams savagery.

The same holds true for England, as well as France, Spain and Portugal. Every society born of colonial roots, must abandon the garbage geopolitical dream of becoming a superpower, and place all their attention on making amends for the past - at least until prejudice and discrimination are no longer a dominant force in these societies. It's not about feeling guilty, it's about feeling human, and doing everything it takes to correct the mistakes that keep you from becoming human. And for that, it is imperative, you abandon your make believe glories of the past and look at the world with human eyes. Or to put it plainer still - it's not your fault that your ancestors were jerks, but if you fail to right their wrongs as civilized human, then you are just as jerk as them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Beyond tongue and tradition,
Beyond ignorance and intolerance,
Beyond fear and fanaticism,
Beyond rigidity and recklessness,
Beyond the desert of dead habit,
Beyond the logical heartlessness,
Beyond the lies of selfish order,
Beyond the highs of whims and wishes,
There's a valley of love and laughter.
Come someday, I shall meet you there.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“If bloodline dictated destiny,
We'd still be dangling from trees.
Not that we've done much better,
But at least there is possibility.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“There is light beyond the wall,
there is sky beyond the ceiling.
Walls broken is world awakened,
Ceiling breaking is sky awakening.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Naskar nation is world nation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“My flag is world flag - my nation, world nation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Grow so big with your ideas that you become a threat to every nationalist state in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Grow so big with your ideas that you become
a threat to every nationalist state in the world.
Grow so big with inclusivity that you become a curse
to every fundamentalist institution in the world.

Pledge allegiance to no label,
Be absolutely, unequivocally nondual.
Move past even the concept of nonduality,
So that you become unequivocally whole.

Expand, expand, and expand again,
till the world witnesses your human reign.
Expand to serve, expand to love!
Amidst eternal desert be the impossible rain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Pledge allegiance to no label,
Be absolutely, unequivocally nondual.
Move past even the concept of nonduality,
So that you become unequivocally whole.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“It's a slippery slope from nationality to nationalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Stronger the mind,
gentler the mind.
Braver the mind,
humbler the mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“All deserts are born of human coldness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Expand, expand, and expand again,
till the world witnesses your human reign.
Expand to serve, expand to love!
Amidst eternal desert be the impossible rain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Nonduality or Advaita means that we gotta renounce all things that create division, including the very term "advaita", as well as the label of nondualism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Grow so big with inclusivity that you become a curse to every fundamentalist institution in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Grow so big with your ideas that you become a threat to every nationalist state in the world. Grow so big with inclusivity that you become a curse to every fundamentalist institution in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Society is not a stock market,
where the supreme measure is money.
One smile, one hug, is worth more,
than all the dough in US treasury.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Call me poet, scientist or humanitarian, Naskar is the spirit of world integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“One thunder, visions plenty.
One mission, vessels plenty.
One source, seekers plenty.
One fate, fervors plenty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“One Mission, Many Vessels
(The Sonnet, 1313)

One thunder, visions plenty.
One mission, vessels plenty.
One source, seekers plenty.
One fate, fervors plenty.

From dust we're born,
In dust we're gone.
Cashes to ashes,
Bitcoins in trashes,
Division is nefarious,
Unity is dawn.

The day the billions of people of earth
are valued more than the billionaires,
that day you shall be human being,
that day you are king and queen.

Naskar doesn't have flag or nation,
My flag is world flag - my nation, world nation.
Call me poet, scientist or humanitarian,
Naskar is the spirit of world integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Dump all autocratic nonsense of law-abidance,
Tell the right from wrong by conscience rule.
If you want human rights to reign supreme,
Wake up and be the world leader of your hood.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets