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    Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
    Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
    Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
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    Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

    By Abhijit Naskar

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    "Humans are meant to be loved and objects to be used, but in confusion, we started to use the humans and love the objects - when this changes, everybody will be happy and content."

    Humanitarian Neuroscientist Abhijit Naskar, also known as the Saint Scientist, delivers us a seminal piece of literature on service and sacrifice. In this magnificent composition, Naskar takes us on an empowering journey in the path of service, without which humanity would never have become the true masters of this planet. He points out to us in his lucid and warm manner of writing, that the only way we can rid this world of hatred, bigotry and harmful stereotypes is to be responsible of our own actions as conscientious individuals.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNeuro Cookies
    Release dateApr 17, 2019
    ISBN9781386578949
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      Lives to Serve Before I Sleep - Abhijit Naskar

      Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

      Abhijit Naskar is the twenty-first century mind of science, whose gentle and 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 in the eradication of religious differences in our world, for which he is popularly hailed as a humanitarian neuroscientist, who takes the human civilization in the path of sweet general harmony.

      LIVES TO

      SERVE

      BEFORE I SLEEP

      ABHIJIT NASKAR

      Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

      Copyright © 2019 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, 2019

      Printed in United States of America

      ISBN: 9781094727882

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      DEDICATION

      To My Teacher Gadadhar Chatterjee, whom I promised that I’d always be there for humankind, no matter the era.

      To My Humankind.

      And to my predecessors, who made

      substantial contributions in the making of

      the idea called Naskar:

      Leo Tolstoy,

      Nikola Tesla,

      Martin Luther King Jr.,

      Rabindranath Tagore,

      Subhas Chandra Bose,

      Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi.

      CONTENTS

      Introduction to Service
      Highest use of life is to live for others
      Bibliography

      Introduction to Service

      Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

      (The Poem)

      Lives to serve before I sleep,

      Cause service is my salvation;

      Wounds to heal before I sleep,

      Cause time is wailing for absolution;

      Bridges to build before I sleep,

      Cause too many walls are raised already;

      Peoples to unite before I sleep,

      Cause civilization is trembling and walking unsteady.

      Shackles to shatter before I sleep,

      Cause corruption festers in the stagnant norm;

      Labels to erase before I sleep,

      Cause they've only confused our global dorm;

      Sects to humanize before I sleep,

      Cause segregation has weakened the human bond;

      Blades to burn before I sleep,

      Cause they've turned the world into a bloody pond.

      Tears to wipe before I sleep,

      Cause the society is lost in fun;

      Homes to heal before I sleep,

      Cause ego has wrecked the nests a ton;

      Biases to alleviate before I sleep,

      Cause bigotry has outweighed compassion;

      Purity to pour before I sleep,

      Cause all are chasing petty gratification.

      Spirits to lift before I sleep,

      Cause the minds are running dry;

      Gods to build before I sleep,

      Cause orthodoxy makes humanity cry;

      Wars to end before I sleep,

      Cause no life is expendable and puny;

      Humans to raise before I sleep,

      Cause where humans act human there reigns harmony.

      Highest use of life is

      to live for others

      Service is the only path to greatness. Service is the force of nature that sees neither superiority, nor inferiority, it only sees humanity in misery and instantly dives into the attempt of alleviating that misery, without thinking for even a second about the safety of the self. Sacrifice is the fuel for service, and conscience is the charioteer.

      A conscience burning brighter than a thousand suns, when comes to action, all misery and prejudices fade away, like the darkness of the night sky that vanishes upon the advent of the first ray of sunshine. When that conscience comes to action in the path of service, all violence gets overwhelmed by the pouring monsoon of compassion, and all that remains in the end is a pure, pious and ambitionless sense of non-violence. In the presence of such non-violence, all wars get forgotten in the heart of humanity, as the

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