Human consciousness is complex and specific differences make headway which enrich the mystic life. And the different forms of mysticism mentioned in the Gita,—philosophic, devotional, practical and contemplative—are due to the diverse phases of our conscious life. Mysticism does not read life in parts. It views the whole of it and does not leave even the slightest and the most insignificant thing out of consideration. It sees life in its soaring transcendence ...