Monk Meets World

By Abhijit Naskar

"The divinity that you keep seeking in the mountains, in the jungles, in the deserts, lies dormant within yourself. So, it's not the place that makes you enlightened, rather it's your intention."

When our age of reason needed a Scientist with the wisdom of a Saint, Mother Nature gave us Abhijit Naskar. Now, that Saint Scientist delivers us a new and practical paradigm of "monkhood", befitting our era of scientific and philosophical progress.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Neuro Cookies
• Release date: Aug 14, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393223009

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MONK MEETS WORLD

Abhijit Naskar is the twenty-first century mind of science, whose glorious philosophical touch has enabled modern Neuroscience to effectively engage in the human society towards diminishing the ever-growing conflicts among religions. As an untiring advocate of global harmony and peace, he became a beloved best-selling author all over the world with his very first book The Art of Neuroscience in Everything. With various of his pioneering ventures into the Neuropsychology of religious sentiments, he has hugely contributed to humanity’s attempt of eradicating religious differences, for which he is popularly hailed as a humanitarian who incessantly works towards taking the human civilization in the path of sweet general harmony.

MONK

MEETS WORLD

ABHIJIT NASKAR

Monk Meets World

Copyright © 2019 Abhijit Naskar

This is a work of non-fiction

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An Amazon Publishing Company, 1st Edition, 2019

Printed in The United States of America

ISBN: 9781089380276

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When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders

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DEDICATION

To The Messiahs to Come

CONTENTS

1. Introduction to Civilized Monkhood

2. Separation is Bondage

3. Enlightenment Within

4. To Be Human is Divinity

5. I, The Son and The Father are One

6. Messiahs Are Needed

7. Life and Liberty

8. Savior Art Thou

9. The Next Step in Evolution

Bibliography

1.  Introduction to Civilized Monkhood

A monk's life in seclusion is waste of a life, whereas a monk's life amidst people is the true fulfillment of the life. A monk who cuts himself off from the society forever in search of an imaginary enlightenment or divinity, is no more valuable to the society than the religious fundamentalist who spreads hate and bigotry across this beautiful planet of ours. And a monk who adds no value to the human society, is no monk at all.

A monk is the one who devotes his or her life to the service of humanity, not the one devoted to the service of his or her secluded self. Seclusion is not the same as salvation, service is. You can go off-grid from the society, to roam in seclusion, in search of the so-called enlightenment, and by the grace of some fortunate neurochemical manifestations, you may succeed in achieving it, but that won't make you any more valuable than the dog that roams around the street with no higher purpose than mere survival.

Unless you bring your powers out in the path of service - in pursuit of improving human condition, your very valuable life will end up as a complete waste of protoplasmic potential. Mark you, divinity lies in laying yourself down so that a few people can cross the deep dark abyss of helplessness, hopelessness and misery.

Chastity, poverty and obedience to certain religious community no longer have any bearing over your level of understanding of the world within and the world without.