Service Of Humanity Quotes

“Life is short,
Forgive a lot,
Help plenty,
Love like crazy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Silent kindness is sacred kindness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

“Day and night, night and day,
This moment now,
And every moment far away,
Love each and love all,
Save love there's no other way.
Ain't enough to be born a human,
To find life we gotta give our life away.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“World, my valentine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“As a kid I only wanted one thing - immortality!
So I worked at it secretly.
How does a mortal become immortal?
By giving up their mortality
in the cause of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Sacred minds make sacred society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

“Pick up a broom, not bombs,
Wield a mop, not weapons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

“Five hundred years from now nobody will care about your nationality, they'll only remember your humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

“Action Yoga (Sonnet 1030)

If you love the idea of yoga,
Then be a karma yogi,
Without all that nonsense of,
“Be kind and you'll be treated kindly”.

Silently do your duty as a human being,
With zero expectation for praise and reward.
Kindness with expectation is kindness ruined,
True goodness expects nothing in return.

Karma means duty, yoga means union,
Lose yourself in goodness, and you'll find unity.
In this age of reason only yogi is the one,
Who is one with the world in humanitarian duty.

Silent kindness is sacred kindness.
The ancients called it karma yoga, I call it humanness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

“One act of silent kindness is far greater than reading all the books by Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Wanna change the world - first stop whining like backboneless fleshbags, and work till your last ounce of strength to attain a position of power. Run for office, be a copper, be a scientist, journalist, filmmaker - be something - anything - that earns you control over the paradigm. Infiltrate each and every corner of society that holds power, then use that power to lift up the world, towards an integrative, hateless and sustainable future. I'll be gone soon, but there'll come a time when every walk of society will be run by my soldiers. That day, I shall finally rest in peace, knowing that my world is in good hands - your hands.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“The Pillar (A Sonnet)

People come, spend some time with me,
Then they leave and go their own way.
Some leave bidding a sweet goodbye,
Then there're times I get trashed away.

To the world I am but a pillar,
I've accepted that role in society.
But secretly the heart wreaks havoc,
Not being able to hold on to somebody.

There is no cure for my condition,
It's the price a reformer has to pay.
No world is lifted without sacrifice,
That's how the being becomes a gateway.

Be a shelter to others in their times of agony.
Once you've fulfilled your role in their life,
Do not be a hindrance to their joy and liberty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“I am not here to garner popularity for myself. I am the Himalayas, and I am here to leave behind an insurmountable legacy of humanitarian material that floods the world with Everests by the hundreds.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Undercover Armageddon: World Engineering Omnibus

“Humankind, my valentine!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Despite the noises,
Despite the compulsions,
Despite the lack of silver spoon,
Despite all third world obstructions -
If a dropout vagabond could do so much,
What holds you back from expansion!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Trance of Totem (The Sonnet)

This is my decree to my soldiers of the future,
Refrain from raising my giant lifeless structures!
Use the funds to build schools and hospitals instead,
Providing free/affordable education and healthcare.

Keep me alive in your heart, not in dead statues,
each one taller and more extravagant than the other,
Just so self-absorbed snobs could take the perfect selfie,
to declare an empty alliance with humanitarian behavior.

If you must have symbollic momentos of me around,
Keep them personal, humble and utterly non-extravagant.
Always remember, I am honored with your acts of love,
not with your thousand feet statues and chants unsapient.

It's a sad state of affairs, when virtues
gather moss upon the monuments of hypocrisy.
Break your trance of totem poles,
be the freedom you are meant to be!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Break your trance of totem poles, be the freedom you are meant to be!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Not aim for nondivision, we gotta start from nondivision - not aim for secularism, we gotta start from secularism - not aim for harmony, we gotta start from harmony.

Harmony is the starting point - integration is the starting point - universal acceptance is the starting point. It is this simple, yet why do we complicate it with so much intellectual jargon, like existentialism, empiricism, humanism and so on!

Why can't the human simply be human!

A real existentialist pays attention to existence, not to existentialism. A real empiricist pays attention to the rightful use of empirical evidence, not to mere empiricism. A real humanist pays attention to a life of human substance, not to shallow theoretical concepts like humanism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Live long, see the world, and serve God and humanity!”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“What is the point of you? What is your worth? And by worth I am not talking about your financial value, I am talking about something much more significant than that. So, I ask again - what is your worth? And you won't find the answer in any scripture or church - you won't find it even in this book. Because no external power can give you the answer to something so incredibly existential in nature.

If you want to know your worth, ask yourself, what are you without your bank account. The worth of a person lies in character. The same goes for a nation and the same goes for a world. Therefore, a nation's worth lies not in the value of its currency, but in the character of its people. And it all begins with the individual - it all begins with you. Your character holds not just the worth of your own life, but that of the lives of your people as well. So, feel like it's the feeling of your society and act like it's the action of your society.

But mark you, here I do not mean, feeling and acting like the society, rather, I am asking you to feel, think and act as an original, brave and conscientious human being, so that you become the very emblem of humanhood in front of others, for them to draw their life’s inspiration from. Doing what the society wants, makes you a second hand human - wanting the society to do what you want, makes you a narcissistic bigot - but being an embodiment of humanhood without any expectation from others, is what makes you a sentient human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism

“Cardiomyopathy Sonnet
(Medicine and Metaphor)

Person's worth comes from
their pulse, not from their purse.
It's okay if your purse is anemic,
so long as your veins got plenty pulse.

It's your pulse that brings the world to life,
Pulsating heart is radiator during this ice-age.
Ice-age never went away, it just got internalized,
As outwardly in appearance we became less savage.

Human heart is in dire need of a green house,
All the warmth is escaping rapidly.
Melting ice caps will drown us later,
We'll have kicked the bucket long before,
from frostbitten cardiomyopathy.

Brain's death is death of the body,
Heart's death is death of the being.
Kindness keeps the being alive
long after the heart stops beating.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“There are three kinds of people in the world - Those who make the world, those who mock the makers, and those who sleep through all the making and mocking. Or better yet, there are humans then there are animals - Humans who make the world, humans who help the makers, and animals are those who keep mocking and sleeping.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“I don't care for booze, drugs, God or government, I only care for human upliftment. I can accept anything and everything that facilitates human welfare, but I have zero tolerance for derangement.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“I may share pictures, meeting people,
But I never share pictures, helping people.
Kindness is reward in itself to be savored,
Kindness with selfie is shallowness despicable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“The greatest humanitarians are silent humanitarians, who live their mission with zero claim to applause.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Sonnet 1143

Give me some sunshine,
Give me some rain!
Why the hell am I asking you,
When I'm the steward of my own reign!

Ship of society is sinking,
O Young and Bold, now hail the helm!
Come to the rescue of those lost at sea,
To hell with the nonsense of shame and fame!

My religion is to rescue the fallen,
My creed to care for the persecuted.
Faith, reason, nation, I heed none,
Obliterated in love heart is illuminated.

Shedding all fears both ragged and posh,
Let's go play in the courtyard of the cosmos!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“I am the person
beyond the paradigm,
I am but a reflection
of the best of humankind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Sonnet 1144

Istanbul to Alpha Centauri,
Cosmos courses in my corpuscles.
Religion, nation, stuff it all,
Benevolence makes the world livable.

Din, dünya, milliyet falan,
hiç umurumda değil.
Sen mutlu ol - bana yeter.
Scripture, constitution, god, government,
Nothing matters to me, except behavior.

The greatest iftar is
to break the fast of apathy,
with the feast of affection.
Sin humano no hay dios,
Where there is no kindness
there is no divine intervention.

Sapiens intervention is divine intervention,
There is nothing higher or more mighty.
When we are obliterated in lifting the fallen,
That's the living manifestation of the almighty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Himalayan Sonneteer Sonnet 2

Just like every family needs a pillar,
Every generation needs a rock.
All may sprinkle salt on each other's wounds,
You for one, be the ointment to the epoch.
Be the foundation stone to civilization,
Be the walking measure of human character.
You are the definition of sapience,
You are the very definer.
Let no law define your duty,
Let no scripture determine goodness.
Let no ancestor imprison your identity,
Expand, explore and usher into sentience.
You are the illusion, you are the truth.
When evil hangs heavy, you gotta blow your fuse.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“My true north is earth, my true north is humanity, my true north is love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo