INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY –MYSTICISM –A Critical Study
of experience. This experience is what one has in the
depths of one’s own self and Nature. One becomes
aware of His presence in moments of exquisite
perception of beauty or truth or goodness. He needs
His presence more and more. To know Nature is truly
possible only through what it depends on for being what
it is or is thought of. So too the human soul is known
only through what it lives by. God thus is the central
meaning of all existence. Without Him neither nature
nor man can be known at all or be at all. He is known
only by a direct or unmediated experience. This
experience is called mystic because it is the experience
of a ‘fused’ or integral or organic unity between the
knowing person and the known object. So to speak
there is a coalescence, fusion, interpenetration, a
locking up in embrace, an osmosis, which gives the
sense of losing and finding. God is all, this is the central
fact of mystic experience of God.
Whether it is Nature Mysticism or Personal
Mysticism the same psychological process happens. A
return to the prior condition after this orgasm enchants
and enhances the knowledge tempo, due to a strange
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