As a student in pursuits of knowledge, I have always
admired your scholarship and creative style of writing and interpretation. I
am so grateful that you went through every word of presentation again and
honored me with your feedback. My topic, Nature of Mysticism, had imposed
definite limitations on me but, what I said in the seminar is partly a
reflection of my own ignorance on this subject. Speculation and assumptions
are the first step to an inquiry. As a fellow traveler for knowledge, I am
with you on assumptions and hope to learn from this discourse.
I could not agree with you more that all of us are trying to fathom human
perceptions with our inherent biological limitations like your proverbial
blind man. My understanding is 'wahadat ul wajood and wahadat ul shahood' (put
together so beautifully by
Farzana Hassan), are not akin to mythos and logos respectively. I
think, 'wahadat ul wajood and wahadat ul shahood' both represent mythos. But
this is just my understanding.
Your understanding that religion has taken advantage of 'Reward and
punishment' brings me a renewed respect for depth of your scholarship that has
also raised so many other questions while reviewing my article. My lack of
knowledge is the reason that I cannot even begin to speculate let alone
answering. I would hope that you would allow me to listen to you if and when
you would be talking about those ideas like mystic language, grammar and
fusion of various states of existence etc.
No doubt, it was a difficult topic for me. Your comments and questions make
me think, I have a long way to reach a unified understanding of realities
scattered all around us, appreciation of beauty of true learning and ecstasy
of our collective social nirvana.
With warmest regards.
