Mysticism

For millennia, sages and saints have claimed to have encountered the divine through the practice of prayer and meditation. While they often assert that such experiences are indescribable, they have nevertheless left us with details of their encounters and, perhaps more importantly, instructions on how we, too, can do the same.

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I AM That.
Nisargadatta Maharaj

‘You seem to want instant insight, forgetting that the instant is always preceded by a long preparation. The fruit falls suddenly, but the ripening takes time.’

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The Idea of the Holy
Rudolf Otto

‘The feeling of it may at times come sweeping like a gentle tide, pervading the mind with a tranquil mood of deepest worship... It may burst in sudden eruption up from the depths of the soul with spasms and convulsions, or lead to the strangest excitements, to intoxicated frenzy, to transport, and to ecstasy. It has its wild and demonic forms and can sink to an almost grisly horror and shuddering… It may become the hushed, trembling, and speechless humility of the creature in the presence of – whom or what? In the presence of that which is a Mystery inexpressible and above all creatures.’

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The Interior Castle
St. Teresa of Avila

‘…it seems to me that we will never know ourselves unless we seek to know God. Glimpsing his greatness, we recognize our own powerlessness; gazing upon his purity, we notice where we are impure; pondering his humility, we see how far from humble we are… Test us, Beloved, you who know the truth, so that we may know ourselves.’

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Related Works

Related Works are titles not currently featured in the Library of Light, but complement and deepen our understanding of the texts that are. While by no means exhaustive, a collection of some of these works curated by our team of researchers for their relevance and continued value are listed below.

Aurobindo, Sri.
1919.
The Life Divine.
Julian of Norwich.
1670.
Revelations of Divine Love.
Revelations of Divine Love.
Julian of Norwich.
1670.

While nearly seven-hundred years have passed since Julian first set pen to paper, her work Revelations of Divine Love remains as studied, read, and revered as ever. When Julian was thirty, she received a series of visions while in the midst of recovering from a nearly lethal disease. Despite witnessing the ravages of constant war and even the Black Plague, her writings reflect an unconquerable optimism, based solely upon the hope in God’s love. We are held in existence by this divine love and through it, all will eventually be brought to perfect union and peace.

The Life Divine.
Aurobindo, Sri.
1919.

As the principal work of philosophy by the famed yogi and Indian nationalist Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine details the origins of the cosmos, its ultimate goals, and our role within the whole process. At over 1100 pages in length, Aurobindo exhaustively describes how the divine, called Brahman, expresses itself in the world. The world, then, is not mere illusion (maya) but a constantly evolving manifestation of God, and humanity, through the process of Integral Yoga, can aid in their own evolution, reaching new realms of consciousness such as Overmind or Supermind.

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Mysticism

For millennia, sages and saints have claimed to have encountered the divine through the practice of prayer and meditation. While they often assert that such experiences are indescribable, they have nevertheless left us with details of their encounters and, perhaps more importantly, instructions on how we, too, can do the same.

The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non-Rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and its Relation to the Rational (1917)
The Interior Castle (1588)
I AM That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1973).
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