MYSTICAL LINES

 

MYSTICAL LINES

            Mystics are persons who try to become united with God through prayer and meditation. Due to this, almost spiritual way of  life, they attain knowledge of such important things as are beyond the reach of  normal human understanding.     

            What is mystical has spiritual qualities that are difficult to understand or to explain.

            A mystified person is one who is confused because he does not understand something.

            According to dictionary definitions mysticism is the belief that knowledge of God and of real truth can be found through prayer and meditation rather than through reason and the senses.             

            Some common synonyms of mystic and mystical are: spiritual, paranormal, transcendental, other-worldly, supernatural, and metaphysical.    

            Prominent mystical figures are:

            Adi Shankar (8^th Century), Kabir (15^th century), Mirabai (16^th century), Sri Ramakrishna (19 century).

            Among Sufi mystics may be included  Rumi (13h century) and Ibn Arabi (1165-1240).

            Osho (1931-1990) , born Chandra Mohan Jain, was also a great Hindu mystic.   

            Give below are some mystical quotes:

*Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives

*Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

*It always seems impossible until it’s done.

*To be or not to be, that is the question.

*Be the change that you wish to see.

*The notion that a cat has nine lives is based upon the belief that nine is a mystic number.

*Jump as high as you can. Dance as madly as you can.

*Sin is a technique of the pseudo-religions.

*Life is not going anywhere. It is just going for a morning walk.

*If it happens; it is good; if it does not happen, even better.

*We are all joined together with invisible threads. If I hurt you, I hurt myself, I am hurting you all.

*Man’s greatest need is to be needed.

*I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.---Kabir

*The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God.----Mirabai

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PUNCHLINE  :Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.----LORD BUDDHA.

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G. R. Kanwal

3^rd July 2026