NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract

Hear, O children of wonder, the words of Gulzar, poet of India, who confessed with simplicity yet with cosmic grandeur: “NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.” In these lines, he reveals the root of his inspiration: that the vast cosmos, with its silence, its darkness, and its endless mysteries, breathes into the soul of the poet a vision beyond the ordinary. For poetry does not only spring from gardens and rivers, but also from the infinite skies.

When Gulzar gazes into the universe, he sees not merely stars and galaxies, but metaphors, symbols, and enigmas. The cosmos is abstract because it resists simple explanation. Light travels for millions of years; time bends; matter dissolves into energy; black holes consume and yet reveal. Such mysteries have always stirred the human spirit. Where reason halts in awe, poetry takes its flight. Thus, he borrows the abstractness of the stars to enrich his verse, weaving human emotions with cosmic vastness.

The ancients also knew this connection. Did not the Babylonians watch the skies and compose myths of gods walking among the constellations? Did not the Greeks name their tragedies after heavenly bodies—Orion, Andromeda, Perseus—binding the fate of men with the dance of stars? Even the Vedic seers of India sang hymns to the dawn, the sun, and the void, where creation was born from nothingness. Gulzar, in his own time, follows this eternal path: finding in the universe not cold emptiness, but a mirror of human longing and mystery.

Consider also Vincent van Gogh, who in his torment painted “The Starry Night.” To some, the swirls of stars made no sense. But to the artist, those abstract patterns captured what words could not—the turbulence of the soul mirrored in the heavens. So too with Gulzar: the abstraction of the cosmos gives form to the abstraction of human emotion. Where clarity is impossible, beauty remains, and beauty itself becomes truth.

This teaching is not limited to poets. Every human heart can draw strength from the skies. When you look up on a night free of clouds, you feel small, yet also infinite. You sense that your griefs and joys, though fleeting, are part of something greater. In this way, the abstract nature of the cosmos does not confuse, but liberates. It reminds us that life is not always to be solved, but to be experienced, to be expressed, to be sung like a verse.

Gulzar’s words remind us also that in the digital age, even the vastness of the heavens can be brought near. To him, NASA is not merely science but a fountain of imagination. Pictures of galaxies, nebulas, and distant planets become sparks for his poetry. Where others see data, he sees metaphors. Where others see physics, he hears music. Thus, his art bridges the rational and the abstract, the earthly and the cosmic.

O seekers, let this be your lesson: do not fear the abstract. Do not demand that all things be plain and simple. For life itself is not simple—it is vast, mysterious, and often unspeakable. Instead of rejecting abstraction, embrace it as a higher form of beauty. Look to the stars not only with the eyes of science, but with the heart of a poet. See in their silence a song, in their distance a metaphor, in their mystery a mirror of your own soul.

Practical is this wisdom: gaze upon the night sky often, and let it humble you. When you read or write, allow room for the strange and the unexplainable, for therein lies depth. Support the sciences, for they reveal the universe, but also cherish the arts, for they translate that revelation into meaning. In this union, as Gulzar teaches, we find inspiration: the universe gives us abstraction, and poetry gives it voice. And through this, our lives are lifted from the dust of the earth to the majesty of the stars.