This study offers a fresh critical perspective on mystical poetry across cultures and faiths from a point of view that balances the eastern and western approaches. It specifically examines, in some depth and range, select verses of a fairly large number of poets in order to highlight the universal features of mysticism as it finds expression in their works. The poets chosen include (i) Kashmiri poets : Lal Ded, Nunda Rishi, Shams Faqir, Zinda Kaul, Swami Govind ...
