INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY –MYSTICISM –A Critical Study
not until one becomes a woman can one know God. To
this group belong also St. Sathakopa, St. Tirumangai,
St. Manikkavacagar and Sri Chaitanya 12 . Sri Rama
Krishna Paramahamsa also trod this path.
By this approach they became creative fields of
the Divine. Such is the glorious possibility of this union
that it had even been possible to experience a complete
triple union in body, and mind and self or and in
cognition, feeling and willing, so much so the ancient
Upanisadic experience of God had become a solid
experience of Saccidananda. Such occupations of the
physical body by the Divine had resulted in stigmata or
signs of indelible character being imprinted on the
physical body of the devotee. Spiritual marriage is a
consecration for a spiritual creation, the fulfillment of the
12 There are several views indeed which are relevant to this
approach. The souls are females and the divine All (Sarvesvara)
alone is the male.
Another view is that all males (God, man or animal) are Visnu,
and all females (goddess, women etc.) are Sri and the males
must move to discover their appropriate, destined females,
Vishnu Purana I 8, 35.
Deva tiryannmanusyesu Pumnama Bhagavan Harih |
Strinamne Srisca Vijneya nanayor vidyate param. ||
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