A Dialogue on the Human Prospect
Book Specification
Item Code: | UAF933 |
Author: | Karunakara Guru |
Publisher: | Santhigiri Publications, Kerala |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 2009 |
ISBN: | 9789381295137 |
Pages: | 200 |
Cover: | PAPERBACK |
Other Details | 8.50 X 5.50 inch |
Weight | 280 gm |
Book Description
The Holy Quran: Sura XXIII, Verse 44
1. Revelatory Religion In Historical Perspective
Revelation is like a constant rain that saturates the knowing of man, yet many reject it, dulled as they are by gross pursuits. The Guru intercedes and sensitizes him to the perennial rain.
Even this intercession is fraught with danger. Systems arise . from it, exclusion, and the eventual denial of the perennial totality.
Mohammed had said: 'When you meet the people of the Book (Jews), and the Christians, tell them that the God you worship is the same one as theirs. ‘
Even the Guru is put to test, test exceedingly harsh and he also responds with exceedingly harsh truth. A Gentile woman sought the aid of Christ who responded: 'My mission is to the children, not the dogs.' She replied: 'Lord, the dogs eat what the children discard. Grant me but that'. Full of joy, the Redeemer said, 'Woman, your faith has made you whole.'
The early Christians limited their apostolic mission to the Jews, until Pauline Christianity made the apostolic concern universal.
A Guru by historical accident, functions within inherited traditions and images. But his message eventually transcends these and fulfils itself as Revelation.
Human societies have tended to reject the mystical because it is strenuous and perilous, and without the guidance of a preceptor fraught with demonic perception. In the Christian tradition as elsewhere the mystics have been preserved as saints, as cult figures, the dispensers of miracles while the perenniality of the mystical itself has been rejected by the ordinary worshipper. Even so the mystical keeps company with man all the time and it merely takes a look around the shoulder to discover it.
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