The spiritual anguish of man has no cure but mysticism.

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, " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org wrote:

>

> Dear All,

>

> i received an email that yet again confirms what i know to be the

> real reason behind years of attack against my children:

>

> " There was someone really nice who has been in SY for quite some

> time that I spoke to about the forums, and I wanted to know what

> this person thought of Jagbir's forum, and about there being no

> link to it on the official website. This person told me that

> Jagbir's children have high vibrations, and that people are very

> jealous. I think that there are a lot of people who do appreciate

> and understand what Jagbir is doing. Jealousy is behind a lot of

> behaviour that hurts people. " (end)

>

> i just want to ask WCASY and SYs, would you have labelled them

> possessed and demonic if they were your children? Have any of you

> any idea how critical is their testimony to advance Shri Mataji's

> Divine Message? Do you really know who they really are and why they

> have been chosen to bear witness to the Adi Shakti? Do you know who

> the Qur'an demands must accompany the Spirit who declares the

> Resurrection? Does my previous post give you the common sense and

> caution to cease and desist in your attacks?

>

> Paraclete will enlarge range and understandimng of Jesus' teaching

> /message/6603

>

>

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" Experience of the universal

 

The nature of the goal, however, introduces a paradox. Like every

other aim and activity, mysticism operates in a historical context.

Yet, sooner or later, it also tends to reveal a timeless stance. The

mystic is both in and out of time. The eternal now is a kind of

release from the temporal order. Such a release may lead to a shift

from the local to the universal, to a growing sense of unity of all

experience. Though not a declared or conscious aim, this result

could be looked upon as a not unworthy goal as well as a pragmatic

standard.

 

To cure man of a provincialism of the spirit, from which more people

suffer than either know or admit it, is one of the goals of a

mysticism that has come of age. The true mystic is a cosmopolitan.

In man's many-sided growth toward the real, a sane and mature

mysticism leads to an ecumenical insight and obligation. Local

colour, particulars, and uniqueness will not cease, but, in the

perspective of the future and of wholeness, the universal alone will

have survival value....

 

Experience of oneness with people

 

The apotheosized (divinized) field of consciousness is mysticism's

ultimate goal and gift to the life of an evolving humanity. It alone

is fitted to mediate between the anguish of existence and the

serenity of essence, between samsara ( " cycle of birth and rebirth " )

and Nirvana (the State of Bliss). According to an American Roman

Catholic mystic, Thomas Merton, " The spiritual anguish of man has no

cure but mysticism. "

 

Though the mystic goal may seem to be tied to a transcendent

reality, this does not mean a sundering of all relations and

responsibilities. On the contrary, it is the guarantee of a set of

altered relationships and a rehabilitation of what may be called the

higher reason. Intuitions that sink into private fancy and morbidity

have a short life to live. As for the mystic's " yonder, " it is not

spatially or posthumously remote but rather refers to a different

order of reality and consciousness. The healthier forms of mysticism

do not abjure action or the claims of love. It is an ancient maxim

that one becomes what one loves. This is how the psychic birth

repeats itself in the mystic soul, as stated, for example, by

Meister Eckehart, a medieval German mystic: " It is more worthy of

God that he should be born spiritually of every virgin, or of every

good soul, than that he should have been born physically of Mary. "

 

The mystic is not always amorous of the beyond, leaving an

unredeemed world to its own ways. Not escape but, rather, victory is

mysticism's inner urge and promise. The more sober among the mystics

do not merely withdraw; they also return to the base and attempt the

ancient alchemy, the transformation of men. A solitary salvation

does not satisfy either head or heart. "

 

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