The Centurion Sermon Quotes

“Give your shoes to those who have none, walk in another's shoes whenever you can.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Give your shoes to those who have none, walk in another's shoes whenever you can.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“One gun has more power to take life than a hundred surgeons have to preserve it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Writers have limits, I don't, I am not a writer. I am a dimension immeasurable - siphon all you want, I won't run dry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Islamophobia doesn't disappear simply because you choose to close your eyes. Can you stand by a dehumanized muslim, against the bigoted barbarians of your own culture, and speak out at the top of your voice and conviction - I am a muslim, just as much as I am a christian - I am a muslim, just as much as I am a jew - I am a muslim, just as much as I am a buddhist - hindu - or atheist? Can you? Because, until every threat to the welfare of the dehumanized humans actually, genuinely, internally feels like a threat to your own family, no phobia will ever come to an end - no hatred will ever face demise. Till every culture, every country, every corner of the planet, becomes our own culture, our own country, our own home, there is no peace, there will never be peace. And this, my friend, is called practical divinity, practical sufism, practical nondualism, and practical humanism. Or better yet, this is the ism beyond all isms - this is the ism that concerns the life, laughter and loveliness of the entire humankind - this - is humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“All time is illusion,
unless it's a record of love.
Life is but illusion,
till it's an instrument of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Give your shoes to those who have none,
Walk in another's shoes whenever you can.
Judgment comes easy to every single animal,
It takes a human to act across assumption.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“My mission is to flood the world with Christs by the thousands, Buddhas by the hundreds, and Mevlanas by the millions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Look from the gutter, all you see is one culture. Look from the sky, and you'll see a world full of color.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“If you are learning psychology to manipulate people, you don't need lessons, you need treatment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Sonnet 1019

Time is illusion,
Only love is real.
And if love is unreal,
It's worth more than
all things factual.

Life is love,
God is love.
Mind is love,
The world is love.

Either everything is love,
or there is nothing.
Either we are all lovers,
or we are nothing.

All time is illusion,
unless it's a record of love.
Life is but illusion,
till it's an instrument of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“En pistol har mer kraft att ta liv än hundra kirurger har för att bevara den.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Human Not Hyena (Sonnet 1012)

When all are charmed
by the comfort of dusk,
Rise up and write the dawn.
When savages find honor
in celebration of death,
Rise up and mow the lawn.
When baboons try to show strength
by filling up the graveyard,
Rise up and rob the hate.
When clowns behave like it is 2020 BC,
Rise up and write the world's fate.
When hyenas commit cannibalism
in the name of national security,
Stand up as human and practice humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Vida es amor,
Dios es amor,
Mente es amor,
Mundo es amor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Conquer the heart, you'll conquer the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Obsessive Bloodline Disorder is clinical barbarism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Disarmament must take place at every level of democracy - not just at the civilian level, but all the way to top - at the state level. If gun violence is a civil defense issue, so is nuclear armament.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Humanitarian Industrialization

Fourth industrial revolution my eye! We haven't yet recovered from the disparities produced by the first, second and third industrial revolutions. Morons keep peddling cold and pompous dreams devoid of humanity, and morons keep consuming them like good little backboneless vermin. Grow a backbone already!

We always look at the glorious aspects of industrialization and overlook all those countless lives that are ruined by it. But it's okay! As long as we are not struck by a catastrophe ourselves, our sleep of moronity never breaks - so long as our comfort is unchallenged, and enhanced rather, it's okay if millions keep falling through the cracks.

So long as you can afford a smartphone that runs smooth like butter, it doesn't matter if it is produced by modern day slave labors who can't even afford the basic essentials of living. With all the revenue the tech companies earn by charging you a thousand dollar for a hundred dollar smartphone, they can't even pay decent wages to the people working their butt off to manufacture their assets - because apparently, it is more important for the people at the top to afford private jets and trips to space, than the factory workers to afford healthcare, housing and a couple of square meals a day.

And this you call industrialization - well done - you just figured out the secret to glory without being bothered by something so boring as basic humanity.

I say to you here and now, listen well - stop abusing revolutionary scientific discoveries in the making of a cold, mechanistic, disparity infested world - use science and technology to wipe out the disparities, not cause them. Break free from your modern savagery of inhuman industrialization, and focus your mind on humanitarian industrialization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“All time is illusion, unless it's a record of love. Life is but illusion, till it's an instrument of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Soneto 1019

El tiempo es ilusión,
único amor es realidad.
Si dices, amor es ilusión,
vale más que toda factualidad.

Vida es amor,
Dios es amor,
Mente es amor,
Mundo es amor.

O todo es amor,
o no hay nada
O somos amantes,
o no somos nada.

Todo tiempo es ilusión, salvo
que sea un registro de amor.
La vida es ilusión, hasta que
es un instrumento de amor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“O todo es amor,
o no hay nada
O somos amantes,
o no somos nada.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Todo tiempo es ilusión, salvo
que sea un registro de amor.
La vida es ilusión, hasta que
es un instrumento de amor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Focus on the world beyond the squabbles of tribe, and you shall finally learn, what is human life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“When the world is well, nation is well, while the sickness of national security makes the whole world unwell.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“For animals culture and country may come first, as humans the whole world must be our priority.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Life is but life's religion, Life is but life's philosophy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Sonnet 1010

Life is but life's religion,
Life is but life's philosophy.
Books may be a part of life's growth,
But no book is handbook to sensibility.
Take no book as life's handbook,
Believe no being as life's authority.
Neither me, nor any other figure,
Can be north star to your senility.
You are but an electric eel,
You don't need second hand electricity.
Generate your own electric current,
And light up your part of humanity.
It is time to end all lies of authoritarianism,
And take the leap of living faith across divisionism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“All say, what religion is Naskar!
Naskar says, what religion is the sun!
Some name it alshams, bazıları güneş, algunos sol,
All bask in the same light, varied though the tongue.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Moronation Street (Sonnet 1013)

Nationalism is modern cannibalism,
As such nationalism is terrorism.
Royalty is an act of crime,
Obsessive Bloodline Disorder is clinical barbarism.
Character and excellence are the measure of life,
Not some cavemen constructs of blood and borders.
When the I disappears and the world appears,
That's when the animal disappears and the human appears.
Fundamentalism is the antithesis of religion,
For religion oughta bring inclusion not division.
Nationalism is the desecration of a nation's humane identity,
Each nation's security is predicated on collective ascension.
Enough with the coronation of morons -
enough with moronation!
Beyond blood and border await the streets of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Better a traitor to the dead than a traitor to the living.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo