What is Mysticism

perfect existence why should it always suffer from the psychology of quest. Such a psychology is indicative of imperfectness on the part of seeker. It is a fact that had man been a perfect existence he would never have been born with the natural urge of quest. All human beings being born with this nature provide an internal proof that man in his nature is no perfect existence. This fact is enough to prove that the target of the spiritual quest of man can never be his own being. The other concept of spiritualism is basically produced under the influence of the philosophy of monism. According to the concept of monism, leaving the details aside, all forms of existence are in actual fact manifestations of the same source. Man and everything besides man is one and the same thing in essence. The existing world is a manifestation of one and the same reality rather than of manniness of reality. A philosopher has explained this concept of oneness of reality in these words: ‘The knower and the known are one. God and I, we are one in knowledge, and there is no distinction between us (12/787). According to this concept of spiritualism, to put it in simple words, it is for the part to realize its whole in order that it may join it by discovering it. This second concept of spiritualism is, academically, a baseless concept, yet in both, the philosophic and religious circles, this concept has remained popular. But no person or school of thought has provided real argument in favour of this concept. Calling this quest of spiritualism the quest of the part for the whole is not worth consideration in present circumstances. What has to be proved first of all in this connection is the fact that man is really in his nature a part of the whole. As long as this first premise is not proved, how can a philosophic interpretation based on this concept be true. All the points made in favour of oneness of reality are only a set of an exercise in words. All the arguments forwarded in this connection are symbolic in nature. For instance, it is said that, “all the things of this world are varied (in different forms) manifestations of one absolute reality.” This is only a statement and no such set of words can be a substitute for an argument. Another symbolic argument forwarded is that if one drop is taken away from the ocean, that drop in its essence will be a tiny ocean. Man is likewise a tiny drop of the vast sea of reality. This too is a simile and a simile never proves a