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    Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
    Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
    Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
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    Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

    By Abhijit Naskar

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    "The only kafir or infidel in the world is not the one who does not believe in God, but the one who does not have humanity in their heart. "

    Aşkanjali (literally translates to "Love Offering", where "Aşk" is Turkish for "Love" and "Anjali" is Sanskrit for "Offering") is a mind-expanding odyssey of the universal forces of love and unity. In this literary marvel, for the first time, planet earth's beloved champion of humanitarianism Naskar, embodies the sufi spirit and takes us for a walk into the valley of the heart, beyond the bounds of doctrines and orders.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNeuro Cookies
    Release dateMar 9, 2020
    ISBN9781393649779
    Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

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      Aşkanjali - Abhijit Naskar

      AŞKANJALI: THE SUFI SERMON

      Abhijit Naskar is the twenty-first century Neuroscientist whose contributions in Cognitive & Behavioral Neuroscience have helped the world tackle the issues of prejudice, hate, extremism, discrimination and biases more effectively. As an untiring advocate of mental health and universal acceptance, he became a beloved best-selling author all over the world with his very first book The Art of Neuroscience in Everything. With his pioneering ventures into the Neuropsychology of beliefs and biases, he has hugely contributed in the eradication of religious and cultural differences in our world, for which he is popularly hailed as the humanitarian scientist, who takes the human civilization in the path of sweet general harmony.

      aşkanjali

      The Sufi Sermon

      ABHIJIT

      NASKAR

      Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

      Copyright © 2020 Abhijit Naskar

      This is a work of non-fiction

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      An Amazon Publishing Company, 1st Edition, 2020

      Printed in the United States of America

      ISBN: 9798622157363

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      DEDICATION

      Döne, Ranim, Apurva

      CONTENTS

      1. Together We Are Humans

      2. To Grow Together As Humans

      3. Fall of Reason is Fall of Civilization

      4. Beyond The Words There’s Life

      5. Greater The Meaning Fewer The Words

      6. Geography Divides Only If You Let It

      7. When The Other Becomes I

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      1.  Together We Are Humans

      Together We Are Humans

      (The Sonnet)

      Together we are humans,

      separate we are apes.

      Together we are life,

      separate we are dust.

      Together we are tools,

      separate we are weapons.

      Together we are a boon,

      separate we are a curse.

      Together we are power,

      separate we are insects.

      Together we are sanity,

      separate we are lunacy.

      Together we are serenity,

      separate we are misery.

      Together we are harmony,

      separate we are catastrophe.

      Together we are diversity,

      separate we are phobia.

      Together we are purity,

      separate we are pollution.

      Together we are savannah,

      separate we are a desert.

      Together we are family,

      separate we are desolation.

      Together we are to grow

      as beings of conscience and character,

      Or else our lives are futile

      and will fade away in time's murmur.

      2.  To Grow Together As Humans

      In a recent interview I was asked, what do I represent! And my reply was same as always - I represent a species with all its diversities, not a nation, religion or ideology. I was born in a hindu geography, but that doesn't make me a hindu. I choose what I am and what I am is human. And as such, every country is my country, every culture is my culture, every religion is my religion.

      People often ask me, what my religion is. I tell them, I am a Christian to the Christian, a Jew to the Jew, a Muslim to the Muslim, a Hindu to the Hindu, an atheist to the atheist, but the brightest nightmare to the fundamentalist. The greatest threat to the world is not any specific faith, for faith is nature's anti-dote to misery. The greatest threat to the world is intolerance, regardless of its religious, non-religious, political or intellectual background.

      Once we realize that we are humans above all else, then only can we build a humane world, where people can grow together, not as christians, jews, muslims, hindus, atheists or anything else, but as humans. Otherwise, we'll be ever-lastingly stuck in a chain-reaction of wars, and harmony will forever remain a myth of the books.

      But mark you, this doesn't mean that we have to completely deny our so-called cultural background. In fact, no matter how much we try to erase all traces of our distinct cultural backdrops, we cannot, because, by the time we grow up into adults, they get too deeply and rather indelibly engraved in our brain circuits. For example, as an adult you may start loving music from various parts of the world, but still, the music from the cultural background you were raised in, would have far deeper impact on your psyche - way more than any other music.

      Here it's not about loving the music of your own geographical region more than the music from other regions. It's simply about exposure, which in itself is neither good nor bad. In fact, in many cases, exposure nourishes the mind to develop various skills far more easily than methodical teaching. For example, even though I could easily write in English since childhood as my early schooling was done in a christian school, I could not still speak

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