Śrī Surēśvarācārya shines like an ever glittering star in the horizon of Advaita philosophy with his insight. Śrī Surēśvarācārya‚ the author of the work Naiṣkarmyasiddhi‚ was a direct disciple of Śrī Śaṅkarācārya. He has made a specific note of it in the book and reveals that spiritual illumination was gifted to him by this great Guru. It is found‚ on an in-depth scruitiny of Surēśvara’s stance that he differs from Maṇḍana Miśra with whom he is identified with traditionally and also his Guru Śaṅkarācārya
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The mystical experience‚ an experience felt beyond the realms of ordinary consciousness that has affected many prominent figures throughout history. Mystical experiences often defy any physical description and such experiences involve ineffable awareness of time‚ space‚ and physical reality. These experiences are universal and share common characteristics no matter what religion‚ beliefs‚ or culture in which the person attends and the experiences are often spiritual rather than religious. William
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“William Butler Yeats deals with an interesting variety of subjects and his poetry is full of powerful images and impressive descriptions. Discuss.” Submitted by Hollie McLaughlin. I very much enjoy reading the poetry of William Butler Yeats. What I like about the poetry is the multi-faceted man who emerges. In Inisfree he is the searching‚ restless 25 year old‚ looking to nature as a kind of redemptive force. In ‘September 1913’ he is the ardent political critic of the soul-destroying materialism
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experience that alters the state of consciousness and brings the person to claim a new awareness of ultimate reality. It can involve the experience of oneness with nature or a union with a personal God. William James identified 4 main features of mysticism. The first is ineffability – it is difficult to find the words to describe the experience to those who haven’t had the mystic experience. The mystic state seems to allow insight into depths of truths that are unobtainable by human intellect alone
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Kabir and the Divine Thought Kabir is recognized as one of the most influential saint poets of India. He belongs to the first generation Hindi poets of India who composed couplets and songs in the vernacular for the masses. Born in Benares in the 15th century‚ he was profoundly influenced by the Muslims who dominated India from 11th century until the advent of British. In the 15th century‚ the Muslim influence was predominantly in the form of Sufism and various Persian Mystics through their poetry
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Rabi’a al-Adawiyya is recognised as the first female Saint of Islam due to her major role in the early maturation of Islam‚ specifically‚ the expansion of Sufism. It was she who focused on a rigorous asceticism that required complete abandonment of ones worldly pleasures in order to detach one from the fear of hell and enter the passionate love and devotion for God. Her belief in this notion “Muhabbah” (Divine Love) and her dismissal of materialism became a strong prestige throughout her teachings
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“Adam’s Curse” William Butler Yeats William Yeats’ “Adam’s Curse” is a poem that addresses a profound truth of time. Any human accomplishment such as poetry‚ music‚ or physical beauty requires much labor and is appreciated by few. He says this through an emotional recollection of a conversation between himself‚ his lover and her friend. I believe the meaning of the work lays waiting like a net‚ waiting to catch the reader at surface level. The poem is simplistic in nature‚ which is quite atypical
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A conversion is a religious experience that changes a persons beliefs from one religion to another‚ there are three types of conversion with characteristics varying among them. Mystical experience however is a more extreme form of experience‚ which is not just seeing hearing or feeling someone but a deeper union with god. Non-volitional is a non voluntary conversion which is forced on someone. This usually means that the person is hostile to the belief they later come to hold‚ as it is forced
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William Butler Yeats “When You Are Old” is a tribute to deeper love‚ an obvious interpretation of a poem that contains the word “love” five times in twelve lines. However‚ it is specifically the speaker’s personal analysis of what he imagines “love” to entail. It represents an elderly woman reminiscing of her younger days. A past lover whispers to her as she looks through a photo album. This is a very somber‚ regretful and resigned poem. It has a quiet‚ dreamlike feeling to it. And uses uncomplicated
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Explain what is meant by the term ‘a religious experience’. (45 marks) In 1969 Alister Hardy set up the Religious Experience Research Unit (RERU) with the aim of examining the extent and nature of the religious experiences of people in the UK. The experiences recorded were quite different from other types of experiences that people had. According to Alister Hardy the religious experience ‘… usually induces in the person concerned a conviction that the everyday world is not the whole of reality;
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