Mystic Supreme Soul Analysis

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According to Concise Oxford Dictionary, “ A mystic is one who believes in spiritual apprehension of truth beyond understanding.” Mysticism is , in truth, a temper, a mood rather than a doctrine or philosophy of life. A mystic comprehends a world of divine reality behind the ordinary world of sense perception. He believes that the world which lies open before his eyes, speaks to him before his senses, to his soul. He trusts that the external world must be animated by a spirit or life of its own; the source of which may be the same as that of soul of Man. In other words, the whole universe and all its objects are animated by the 'Supreme Soul' or 'Cosmic Spirit' which is termed as 'God' by religion. This 'Supreme Soul' assumes different forms. …show more content…

A philosopher thinks but a mystic feels. A mystic has seen and he is, therefore, convinced, but his experience does not convince anyone else. A mystic has inner sense organs inner eyes, inner ears, inner nose and inner sense of touch. He is like a person who has suddenly been granted sight, in a world of Blind Men' . Others will naturally, disbelieve him but the belief of a mystic is supported by many men and women to whom this vision was granted through ages. This cam also be called “inner knowledge or pragya”. Wordsworth calls this mood as blessed mood in his poem 'Tintern Abbey'-- That serene and blessed mood In which ...the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood, Almost suspended, we are laid asleep, In body, and become a living soul: while with an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of …show more content…

Wordsworth 's mystic experience are mainly depicted in the context of his treatment of Nature. He had never limited his poems in the confined boundaries of the sight,sound,odors and movements of various elements of Nature. His aim was to achieve ultra earthly and divine. His attitude towards nature is somehow different from other romantic poets of his age e.g. although Shelley is also a mystic but he attempts to intellectualize Nature as in the 'Ode to the West Wind' while Wordsworth's vision of Nature is consistently spiritual. Wordsworth's vision of Nature represents the vision of the Divine Spirit. Wordsworth's perception of one Divine Life in all leads to evoking his vision and fills him with lofty and sublime thoughts and he

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