A Dialogue on the Human Prospect

Back of the Book The Original Malayalam text Manavarasi Innale. lnnu. Nale from which this translation has been made was first published in 1981. This is a futuristic work enshrining Navajyothi Sree Karunakara Guru's experiential vision of life which, we believe will impact India and the world for shaping a new world order marked by peace and social justice. The book has had several subsequent impressions and it was translated into English as A Dialogue on the Human Prospect (its form is that of discourse between Guru and Disciple) and published ten years later in 1991. It was reprinted twice and this is the second (revised) edition. There are certain additions in this like the prefatory notes by Guru and footnotes by the disciples who were involved in the preparation of the script. These were included in the later edition's original Malayalam text after the translation was first published. A glossary has been prepared for the sake of the uninitiated but serious reader. The words were selected by Guru's Mexican disciple Mr. Carlos Guzman especially from the point of view of the European readers who may not be familiar with Indian, and Malayalam, terms.

Introduction Then sent We Our apostles In succession: every time There came to a people Their apostle, they accused him Of falsehood: So We made Them follow each other (In punishment): We made them As a tale (that is told) So away with a people That will not believe!

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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