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This work attempts to show that Kabir was not so much social reformer or a secular advocate of Hindu – Muslim unity as a saint who had attained to great spiritual heights. Except in a formal sense Kabir had no spiritual guide and his spiritualism or mysticism was organically related to eroticism.Kabir's eroticism, however, had no place for lust or lechery. When he refers to his wedding with the lord or to his love affair with him, he only ...
Sarmad was a mystic saint of the highest order and had rejected traditional faiths like Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism and had no use for idol – worship, rituals, canonical laws, scriptures, mosques and temples. He was a lover of the Great Name (Ism – i – Azam), the Real Name (Ism – i – ba – Mussamma), and the ‘unstruck melody’ (Saut – i – Sarmadi).
This is the only complete translation of the Mathnawi in the English language from the original Persian with interpretation.The six volumes represent six states in spiritual evolution:Mathnawi Rumi, which Rumi himself described as ‘gnosis inside gnosis’, was planned by him to run in six volumes as verses 3 and 4 of Volume VI reveal. These six volumes have a mystic significance for the spiritual wayfarer and every one of these represents the six ...
The history of twenty – one different civilizations, spanning a period of some nine thousand years, shows that nineteen of these disappeared when the spiritual or religious foundations that sustained them had become corrupt. Each time a people have lost faith in their religion, their civilization has succumbed to domestic social disintegration, or fallen prey to foreign military invasion and depredation. The civilization that falls as a result ...