Fakeer Ishavardas
Fakeer Ishavardas is a Gujarati poet and writer from India. His work spans devotional poetry, social commentary, and folk traditions, often blending spiritual reflection with everyday life. Known for his accessible yet profound verses, he remains a beloved voice in Gujarati literature.
“The god of fools is a fool just like them.”
“Dare to oppose yourself.”
“I had an enemy - myself. Getting rid of the ego-self, in came the Self. Now, here, there, everywhere is nothing else. Just One Self.”
“So, am I too, like all other humans, just a rogue? Sure! Just a notch less than those rascals wearing godly robes.”
“It is no use dying, before one does.”
“You're not free, until you get rid of I-myself-me; and let enter 'That', which, the sages call "Thee".”
“Science is good, is not God.”
“There is no human-like god. If there were, he'd be as silly as you.”
“In utter humility, bow to What Is. And in time, crying one's guts out, howling, bowing to IT, "knowing" comes. As a gift of the Divine.”
“Believing or not makes no difference to the Absolute of Things That Be. But it does to you. For you shall live and die accordingly. A wise person, or a fool. Choose.”
“Be the person you would want to be friends with.”
“Strip yourself naked, of your fancied ideas about What Is. Then, seek "It". That Which Is. Otherwise, all you're going to find is dick.”
“On a supra human level, yeah, I got That Which Is. Yet on a simple human level, rare are times when either my left or my right foot is not in some kind of shit.”
“Your destiny - by hook or crook, by this way or that, at some corner or nook - will catch up with you.”
“If you do not grasp, intellectually or spiritually, the 'One' in All, you would've lived and died as your former self - ape, et all.”
“Remember, you are as dispensable as the most indispensable king of kings, the mighty lord of silly worldly men.”
“Humans, left to own misguided devices, scratches the Divine in the self as one would the lice, but remember to lick well all the vices.”
“Only in duality consciousness we witness this-that thing. In reality, a unity consciousness runs as the very soul of every little thing.”
“I have met the devil - he is not!”
“The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor.”