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.
“How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?”
“Blind-believers and staunch atheists have the same god - namely, a self-deluded, one's own shadow's bot.”
“Life is an unfinished art, few master it, most just bark.”
“If your holy book makes you hate, you're reading the wrong shit, mate.”
“Don't worry. Life goes on. With or without you. So, live it, while it's given you.”
“As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things.”
“No one dies pre-maturely. As is meant, happens naturally.”
“There is always a choice. Always. So do not say, you had no choice. Good or bad, doing it or not, is about you, not choices. Always.”
“Only that 'holy' book which teaches you to love all beings - animals or human things - read. Another one, idiots do, You let go, God speed.”
“All's a Oneness. There's nothing else.”
“If you're still living, you are yet! winning.”
“Until you get it that in reality you, and the enemy you hate, are identically and inseparably 'One', of a single make, you're one big silly mistake.”
“Humans as a whole are but an unwholesome hole with a sorry ass. In short, a**holes.”
“If you can cull an animal, or kill a human , and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal.”
“God of blind believers is most likely to be cock-eyed.”
“If your needs are little, you are rich enough.”
“If you follow a foolish ism, how are you an intelligent being?”
“Angels, fairies, gods, hell-heaven, "mediating" messiahs, demons, spirits etc. - are but your cultural-isms. Free be of these prisons.”
“Don't worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place.”
“Be who you are. If a man, be one. If woman, be so. The gender-change, behaviour or role, is a mind-made turd. As illusory as this world.”