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Mysteries of Mysticism
Congratulations.
You have done well to inform members of the steadily growing Family of
the Heart with such amazing speed that even an out-of-town absentee
like myself could sample the varieties of thought propounded by the
participants.
I was particularly
impressed by Dr
Khalid Sohail's critique of the dark side of
spirituality which envelops so many lost souls into its vibrant
vortex, whether the movement that drags such souls is headed by a
conniving adept such as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh or by others such as
Ibn Arabi or Sirhindi.
Generally, in
discussing the mysteries of mysticism we must see mysticism as a
movement of the mind, a movement that demonstrates the evolution of
thought from darkness to light. Sadly for me, that progression
wasn't as obvious as it could have been, for, after all, what is
mysticism but a mystification of the indescribable reality that
stares us in the face at every turn and yet we see it not.
What good is it
to quote, say, Rumi or Goethe, Wordsworth or Ghalib, when discussing a
subject as plain and blunt as "mysteries of mysticism" if one
cannot cut through the morass of the ages to touch base with a
mystical experience in this present moment simply by looking at what
is.
Evidently, there were
many scholarly references here and there to baffle the mind as an
intellectual exercise but such an exercise is not at all necessary to
understand what we are saying about mysticism at any given moment in
time.
I think a scholarly
approach to the subject destroys the essence of one's personal search
or native quest concerning the meaning and significance of mysticism
in our lives, essentially because not everyone is on the same level
of spiritual evolution as we tend to assume by assigning labels such
as Judaic, Christian, Muslim, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, and so
on.
The degrees of
separation in our understanding need to be acknowledged by each
individual seeker in order to see with clarity the meaning behind the
words we employ in order to communicate the reality of what is
understood at a deeper level as the truth. When we do that with utter
sincerity, truth can reveal itself in a flash.
Mysticism really is a
lamp that casts away the darkness of the ages in an instant.
Rashid Mughal
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