6. Religious Experience : Nature and Object (Indian and Western).

• supernatural & transcendental entities god heaven spirit , angels, hell
• Know - certainty indubitability verifiability
• Rk - regaded as r belief
• During prayer, ritual ,chanting, worship , pilgrimage ,  festival ,
• Universality
• Diversity
• Importance


Regenerative - life transformation , personality changes , filled with newness, hope, love, joy, meaning, born again
Charismatic -special ability , gifts, blessing , healing power, yogaj , tikal drashti, asamprajnta smadhi , kaivalya gyan
Mystical - powerful concentrated , directm acute, intimate

Ordinary exp - Sensational, Images, Concept-  mystical above all these


Mysticism

• Flight of alone to alone
• Christian mystic - Thomas Aquina - Cognito di experntialist - experiential know of G
• William James - The varities of religious exp - PINT
• Passivity
• Ineffability -anirvachaniya
• Noetic quality - cognitive
• Transient
• Rali dekhne mai gaya mai bhi ho gaya lal



• Introvert
• Extrovert
• Complete
• Incomplete
• Theistic
• Non Theistics /Athestic - spinoza mathematic mysticsm
• Western - plotinus , Augustine
• Indian - Kabirism , mira bai, ramakrishna paramhansha
• Islam - Wahadat al wujud - unity of experience
•  wahdat al shudud - unity of perception , witness  , manifestation , sufism , syncretism


• Rodolph otto - Mysterium tremendum at fascinans
• Mysterium tremendum - tendency to invoke fear, trembling
• Mysterium fascinous - tendency to attract , fascinate , compel