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MYSTICISM IN INDIA
This peace is the peace of spiritual bliss (Moksha). The course of nature never ceases, action always compels even the peaceful to act; but the individual being already lost in the individual the all, there is nothing unpleasant to disturb. The peace of spiritual development is indescribable and so are its powers indescribably vast. As you go on forgetting yourself, just in the same proportion do spiritual peace and spiritual powers flow in towards you. When one consciously suppresses individuality by proper physical, mental, moral and spiritual development he becomes part and parcel of the immutable course of nature and never suffers.
All philosophy has this fourfold development and spiritual peace in view. In India there have been six such schools of thought. Each starts with a more or less rational demonstration of the universe and ends with a sublime code of ethics. There are first the atomic Vaisheshika and dialectic Nyaya schools, seeking mental peace in devotion to the ruler of the universe. Then there are the materialistic Sankhya and the practical Yoga schools, teaching mental peace by proper analysis and practica training. Lastly there are the orthodox Mimamsa and the unitarian Advaita schools, placing spiritual bliss in strict observance of Vedic injunctions and in realizing the unity of the Cosmos. Buddhism and Jainism are based on different foundations, as we shall see later on, (in my second lecture).
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